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 is the author of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, and the forthcoming Vision & Justice. Lewis is the editor of the "Vision & Justice" issue of Aperture magazine and an anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems. She focuses on two central questions: what is the role of art for justice—overcoming failure—in American society? Why is failure so vital for innovation and creativity?
- Occupation
- curator, academic, art historian, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 17, 1979
