Sarah Lewis — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Founder of Vision & Justice (since 2016), an initiative exploring art's role for justice.
Author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller 'The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery,' translated into 7 languages.
Author of 'The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America' (2024), a finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
Recipient of the Freedom Scholar Award (ASALH) and the Arthur Danto/ASA Prize from the American Philosophical Association.
Serves on boards including the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts, Creative Time, and Harvard Design Press.
Holds a BA from Harvard, MPhil from Oxford, MA from Courtauld Institute of Art, and PhD from Yale University.

Biography

Sarah Lewis is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is also the founder of Vision & Justice, an initiative she established in 2016. Her academic and research work centers on the role of art for justice in American society and the vital connection between failure, innovation, and creativity.