
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.
Case Western Reserve University, Baker-Nord Center 30th Anniversary Celebration, 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
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