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.

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Upcoming appearances

All appearances

2018

SXSW, Conversation about The Rise (2014)

2018

Philadelphia University & Thomas Jefferson University, The Rise, Keynote

2018

The Society for Photographic Education (SPE), Annual Conference, Opening Keynote

2018

Central Michigan University, Vision & Justice, Keynote

2018

Belmont Hill School, The Rise, Keynote

2018

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Vision & Justice, Keynote

2018

United States Artists, Annual Conference, Chicago, Keynote

2018

National Museum of Women in the Arts

2018

Conversation with Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles

2018

Brown University, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Vision & Justice, Keynote

2017

Phi Beta Kappa address, Harvard University chapter, Induction ceremony

2017

Ann Radcliffe Trust Lecture delivered during Harvard College convocation, selected by Harvard student nomination

2017

SXSWEdu, Austin, TX, Closing Keynote, Vision & Justice

2017

“Picturing Social Movements from Emancipation to Black Lives Matter,” College Art Association

2017

Aspen Ideas Festival, Conversation with architect Michael Murphy

2017

28th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora, Howard University

2017

Phi Beta Kappa address, Harvard University chapter, fall term induction ceremony, Keynote based on The Rise.

2017

TEDxHarvardCollege

2017

Panelist for Harvard Alumni Association Event with President Drew Faust and Archon Fung, St. Paul, MN

2017

University of Michigan, Slavic Studies Dept., Black Sea, Black Atlantic, Manuscript-in progress presentation

2017

Brooklyn Public Library, Vision & Justice (Keynote, three-part lecture in March and April, civic version of the Vision & Justice class at Harvard University)

2017

University of Michigan, F. W. Thompson Critical Issues Forum, Keynote, Flint, MI

2017

Yale University, Yale Center for British Art, Norma Lytton Lecture

2017

New York University, Department of Russian & Slavic Studies, Black Sea, Black Atlantic

2016

National Endowment for the Humanities, 50th Anniversary Conference, University of Virginia, Keynote