Megan Clement is a journalist who lives in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris. She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, The Sydney Morning Herald, Al Jazeera, New Lines Magazine and many other publications.
Megan edits Impact, a bilingual newsletter covering feminist movements worldwide. She also teaches journalism at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. She is a co-founder of The Gender Beat, an international collective of journalists that advocates for increased, high-quality reporting on gender inequality.
Her memoir, Desire Paths, will be published in April 2025. She is currently working on a book about feminism and football.
She was the inaugural winner of the Island Magazine Nonfiction Prize in 2021 for an essay describing her experience in hotel quarantine. In 2023, she was a finalist for the European Press Prize in migration reporting for an investigation into how Danish asylum policy discriminated against Syrian women. In 2018, she won an ILO media award for her editing of a piece investigating the conditions of migrant workers in Gulf states. In 2012, her work with Professor Sharon Pickering on asylum seeker policy in Australia won a Human Rights Award in the media category.
Megan regularly provides expert commentary for international media on gender inequality and French politics. She has appeared on CNN, the BBC, France 24, Sky News and the ABC. She has spoken at the International Journalism Festival, the World News Media Congress, the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society and the Festival America.
Megan is available for commissions out of Paris as well as projects relating to gender equality, social policy, migration, human rights, arts and culture. You can also hire her as a speaker or moderator for events in these fields in English and French.