Cameron Russell is a model, organizer, writer, and artist dedicated to creative collaboration and collective storytelling to build a more caring world.

Her book, How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone (Random House, 2024) is a political coming-of-age memoir about twenty years spent working and organizing in the fashion industry. Her next book is about care work, gestation, and climate crisis.

A multi-disciplinary artist, her work explores care by designing for collaboration, play, and improvisation. She is an ATLAS fellow at Stanford School of Medicine at the Forever Lab: bringing together artists and scientists in sustained collaboration to design for moments of rupture in the human journey. Her recent work includes Supremely Unequivocal in Our Commitment to This Moment of Being, an invitation to co-author with children and the living world made with Mei Tao and 61 young artist farmers at Harlem Grown, is currently exhibited at the Queens Botanical Garden through March 2027.

Russell has lectured and led workshops at the MoMA, the New York Public Library, Oxford, UC Irvine, Stanford, Harvard, NYU,  FIT, Princeton, Columbia, PACE, UMASS Boston, the UN, SXSW, among others. 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 resulted in the adoption of charters by LVMH and Kering among others, 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.

As a teacher and organizer she is committed to building opportunities to research, archive, celebrate, and learn from people repairing and reimagining fashion systems from the ground up. In 2025 she co-taught and developed a university course (Transnational Feminisms, WGS 411) with Candace Famiglietti that won the College of Liberal Arts Pedagogical Innovation Award (PIA) for innovative, student-centered teaching.

Awards and accolades: 2025 College of Liberal Arts Pedagogical Innovation Award (PIA) for innovative, student-centered teaching. 2024 Elle Women of Impact Honoree. 2020 inaugural CultureShifter by the Huffington Post. Recipient of the 2018 Harpers Bazaar Women of the Year Award, the GCFA’s Changemaker Award, and she was nominated for a Shorty Award for her work organizing models to expose systemic sexual harassment and abuse in fashion. She has twice been named model of the year (humanitarian and social media star) by models.com, provider of the industry’s most influential model rankings. Her work has been recognized by the New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, Glamour, Refinery 29, i-D, NYMag, Business Insider, The Telegraph, CNN, NPR, and ABC.

CONTACT

• Inquiries: Christiana Tien Tran (christiana@lumiencreative.com)

• Book specific: Caroline Eisenmann (ce@goldinlit.com), Frances Goldin Literary Agency

• Book Publicity: Michelle Jasmine (mjasmine@penguinrandomhouse.com)