Cameron russell biography

Cameron Russell spent the last twenty years working as a model for clients like Prada, Calvin Klein, Victoria’s Secret, H&M, Vogue and Elle. With over 40 million views and counting, she gave one of the most popular TED talks of all time on the power of image.

She is the co-founder of Model Mafia, a collective of hundreds of fashion models striving for a more equitable, just, and sustainable industry, and was the force behind campaigns including #MyJobShouldNotIncludeAbuse, which brought the #MeToo movement to fashion and #SupplyChange, which revealed the link between fashion’s leather supply chain and deforestation in the Amazon and built pressure for and knowledge of immediate solutions..

Her first book, How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone, a political coming-of-age memoir about twenty years spent working and organizing in the fashion industry came out this year from Random House.

Her next book is about care work, gestation, and climate catastrophe.

Cameron Russ