Appearances
Celebrated keynote speaker
Lewis is a sought-after public speaker whose mainstage TED Talk has garnered over three million views. She has delivered keynote commencement addresses at venues ranging from the UN General Assembly and the Edinburgh International Festival to World Business Forum and Yale University, as well as numerous universities and organizations across the United States and abroad.
Upcoming appearances
DREAM, 22nd Annual Convening, Keynote
Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Reflections in Black, Deborah Willis in conversation with Sarah Lewis
Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life & Dartmouth Society of Fellows, Dartmouth University, Keynote
Learning Through Photography Symposium, Princeton University
Filmed appearances
All appearances
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Center for Cultural Analysis Conference, “Caucasian War: Race and the Remaking of Vision in America”
Justice Works 2021, Vision & Justice, Keynote
Harvard Book Store, Tina M. Campt in conversation with Sarah Lewis
Arizona State University, School of Art, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Speaker Series, “Vision & Justice: Race, Citizenship, and America”
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Architecture, Spring 2021 Lecture Series, “Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law”
Peabody Essex Museum, Keynote
New York Public Library, Work/Cited. [Presentation on The Unseen Truth manuscript]
New York University, Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute of African American Affairs, The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship, A book talk with Sarah Lewis, Matthew Fox-Amato and Deborah Willis
Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, “Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law”
ASALH and PBS Books, To Make Their Own Way in the World, A Conversation with Deborah Willis, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, moderated by Ilisa Barbash
Capella University, Commencement Address (Virtual)
Rasmussen University, Annual Academic Symposium
Museum of Tolerance, Mr. SOUL! Virtual Q+A, featuring Doug Blush, Nikki Giovanni, Melissa Haizlip, Blair Underwood, moderated by Sarah Lewis
Christiane Amanpour show, Interviewed by Walter Isaacson
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, “The Circassian Beauties and the Caucasian War,” Managing Sight: African American Visual Tactics
Harvard Book Store, Panel, To Make Their Own Way in the World book launch
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Change: How Artists Lead the Way”
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger [Memorial Panel discussion]
University of North Carolina, Greensboro. College of Visual and Performing Arts Virtual Master Class Series
Isaac Julien in conversation with Angela Y. Davis, moderated by Sarah Lewis, A partnership with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and Museum of African Diaspora
Harvard University, 19th Annual Navin Narayan Memorial Lecture, The Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
Yale School of Art, Commencement Address Speaker
Yale School of Art, Commencement Address Speaker