Cameron Russell

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.

At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.

When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.