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.
The Harvard Campaign Celebration, Sanders Theater, invited faculty speaker
The Brearley School, Martin Luther King Day address
Mississippi Museum of Art, Vision & Justice, Keynote
Milton Academy, All school address, The Margo Johnson Speaker series
University of Missouri: The Cockefair Foundation, Vision & Justice, Keynote
Pratt Institute, Vision & Justice, Keynote
SXSW, Conversation about The Rise (2014)
Philadelphia University & Thomas Jefferson University, The Rise, Keynote
The Society for Photographic Education (SPE), Annual Conference, Opening Keynote
Central Michigan University, Vision & Justice, Keynote
Belmont Hill School, The Rise, Keynote
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Vision & Justice, Keynote
United States Artists, Annual Conference, Chicago, Keynote
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Conversation with Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles
Brown University, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Vision & Justice, Keynote
Phi Beta Kappa address, Harvard University chapter, Induction ceremony
Ann Radcliffe Trust Lecture delivered during Harvard College convocation, selected by Harvard student nomination
SXSWEdu, Austin, TX, Closing Keynote, Vision & Justice
“Picturing Social Movements from Emancipation to Black Lives Matter,” College Art Association
Aspen Ideas Festival, Conversation with architect Michael Murphy
28th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora, Howard University
Phi Beta Kappa address, Harvard University chapter, fall term induction ceremony, Keynote based on The Rise.
TEDxHarvardCollege
Panelist for Harvard Alumni Association Event with President Drew Faust and Archon Fung, St. Paul, MN