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Paul Hall
- The Juilliard School, 155 W. 65th St., New York, NY 10023
Program information:
Juilliard's annual lecture celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Sarah Lewis, the founder of Vision & Justice, is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and an associate professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the bestselling The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (Simon & Schuster), and the forthcoming Vision & Justice (One World/Random House). Lewis is the editor of the award-winning Vision & Justice issue of Aperture magazine as well as an anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press). Lewis is the organizer of the landmark Vision & Justice Convening at Harvard University and co-editor of the Vision & Justice Book Series, launched in partnership with Aperture. Her awards include the Infinity Award, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship, the Freedom Scholar Award (ASALH), the Arthur Danto/ASA Prize from the American Philosophical Association, and the Photography Network Book Prize. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Artforum, and the New York Review of Books, and her work has been the subject of profiles from the Boston Globe to the New York Times. Lewis is a sought-after public speaker, with a mainstage TED talk that received more than three million views. She received a BA from Harvard University, an MPhil from Oxford University, an MA from Courtauld Institute of Art, and a PhD from Yale University. She lives in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts.