Monica Lewinsky

Monica Lewinsky is a producer, social activist, global public
speaker, and a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair. Her focus is on
storytelling that moves the conversation forward – around shame,
reclaiming identities, and justice for women. As an activist,
Lewinsky advocates for a safer social media environment and
addresses such topics as digital resilience, privacy, and cultivating
compassion online.

Most recently, Monica teamed up with sustainable fashion brand
Reformation and Vote.org to remind voters to get out and vote.
The campaign for the brand’s workwear collection received
widespread press coverage and international attention.
Monica was a producer on Ryan Murphy’s “Impeachment: American Crime Story” for F/X, as
well as an executive producer on the documentary “15 Minutes of Shame” for HBOMax.
After a decade of silence, in 2014, Lewinsky authored the essay “Shame and Survival” for Vanity
Fair in which she re-examined her personal experiences at the center of a political, legal, and
media maelstrom in 1998 connected to the impeachment of President Clinton and challenged
the often-misogynistic culture of shame that continues to cannibalize the powerless (June
2014). The piece was nominated for a National Magazine Award.

She was a speaker at the 2015 TED Conference in Vancouver. Her speech, “The Price of Shame,”
has been viewed nearly 22 million times. She has also spoken at the Forbes 30 Under 30
Summit and delivered the Ogilvy + Inspire Lecture at the Cannes Lions Festival.
In 2017, for National Bullying Prevention Month, Monica created the #ClickWithCompassion
campaign and released an award-winning PSA in collaboration with the advertising firm BBDO
New York. “In Real Life”, which asked people to rethink their online behavior in an offline social
experiment, was Emmy nominated for “Outstanding Commercial.” Monica & BBDO
collaborated again in 2018 and 2019 on award-winning campaigns. Her most recent 2023
campaign, “Stand Up to Yourself” aims to reshape how we talk to ourselves – to not “self-
bully.”

She is a founding board member of the Childhood Resilience Foundation, on the advisory board
of Project Rockit, Australia’s premiere anti-bully organization, and is an Ambassador for The Diana Award’s Anti-Bullying Program in the UK. Monica holds a Master’s degree in social
psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.