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
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
University of Michigan, Slavic Studies Dept., Black Sea, Black Atlantic, Manuscript-in progress presentation
Brooklyn Public Library, Vision & Justice (Keynote, three-part lecture in March and April, civic version of the Vision & Justice class at Harvard University)
University of Michigan, F. W. Thompson Critical Issues Forum, Keynote, Flint, MI
Yale University, Yale Center for British Art, Norma Lytton Lecture
New York University, Department of Russian & Slavic Studies, Black Sea, Black Atlantic
National Endowment for the Humanities, 50th Anniversary Conference, University of Virginia, Keynote
International Baccalaureate Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain, The Rise, Keynote
“Powerful Words,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Kent Presents, Panel on the legacy of Gordon Parks with Deborah Willis, LaToya Ruby Frazier, moderated by Carter Foster
Yale University, Creative Careers in the Arts, Conversation with Shana Waterman
WNYC (Radio program), Segment on the “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture magazine with Carrie Mae Weems, LaToya Ruby Frazier, moderated by Rebecca Carroll
WGBH segment on the “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture magazine and the related Harvard course and teaching gallery installation
Aspen Ideas Festival, Vision & Justice
Harvard Art Museums, Conversation with LaToya Ruby Frazier, moderated by Sebastian Smee (Washington Post)
Harvard Art Museums, Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship, Keynote
Harvard University, Hutchins Center, Du Bois Lecture
Ford Foundation, Launch of the “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture magazine. Co-hosted by Ford Foundation President, Darren Walker, [Co-organizer]
Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, Work-in-Progress presentation, New York Public Library