Sarah Lewis is the founder of Vision & Justice and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She has authored and edited over 60 publications including The Unseen Truth, which won the American Book Award; the bestseller, The Rise; and the award-winning volumes, Carrie Mae Weems and “Vision & Justice.” Lewis has organized landmark convenings and founded a Vision & Justice Book Series, launched in partnership with Aperture. 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 Vogue to The Boston Globe to The New York Times. Lewis was named to the 2026 TIME List, The Closers, in recognition of her work toward greater equality in the United States.

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