An organizer and interdisciplinary artist , Cameron is dedicated to creative collaboration and collective storytelling to build a more caring world.

Cameron Russell spent 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 (2024), a political coming-of-age memoir about twenty years spent working and organizing in the fashion industry came out last year from Random House. Her next book is about care work, gestation, and climate catastrophe.

Cameron Russell & Mei Tao: The Art of Care (2025-ongoing) combines archival images and audio, photographic portraits and stills, sculpture, craft, live performances of oral story telling alongside “living” text – updating drafts of these histories, research, and theory-making throughout the duration of each installation–as well as incorporating participatory elements (like community archiving) and additional improvised ongoing care work by us, and in collaboration with local caregiver artists. They are ATLAS fellows at Stanford School of Medicine in the Forever Lab bringing together artists and scientists in sustained collaboration to design for moments of rupture in the human journey.

Cómo Amar Un Mundo Herido (2026-ongoing) entering a rope sanctuary, a flexible, portable, and porous sculpture, audiences are enveloped in performed and recorded oral histories. Placed based centos without resolution offer psalms, songs, strategies, intimacies, metaphors, and objects to the audience as they become co-authors and collage their own pañuelos of belonging and fortitude.

Fashion, Liberation and Imagination (2024-ongoing) If fashion isn’t about buying and selling things, than what is it? From raves, to ballrooms, to craft, fashion is a culture of embodiment and expression, a container for grief and pleasure, self-determination and creation even in spaces where freedom is limited. From farms to labor organizing, fashion’s long history includes many more healthy systems that care for life, than the destructive ones that dominate our understanding of fashion today. In playful and critical conversations, performances, workshops, and in one semester long university course, we are building opportunities to examine a broad range of ways fashion is and has been a powerful tool for survival and liberation.

Awards and accolades: 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)