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Monica Leas

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Owned Content, Storytelling at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Monica is a content leader at AWS, leveraging her journalism background to shape brand storytelling. With past leadership roles at Salesforce and Nextdoor, she specializes in content strategy and editorial management. Described as strategic and forward-thinking, she holds Masters degrees from Stanford and Columbia.

Monica is passionate about gender equality in the technology industry. As a student at Stanford, she co-launched the "Elephant in the Valley" project, a widely-cited survey that documented the experiences of senior women in tech. She also wrote about women in venture capital for TechCrunch.

Unique fact: Monica is an Emmy Award winner.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Owned Content, Storytelling
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Brand Storytelling
Her career is focused on creating compelling narratives for major tech brands like AWS, Salesforce, and Nextdoor, drawing from her background as a journalist.
Content Strategy
A core skill throughout her career, she has led content teams at multiple major tech companies and taught a university course on the subject.
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Career

Work history

2022
Owned Content, Storytelling
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2020 - 2022
Head of Content and Editorial
Nextdoor
2018 - 2019
Instructor (Remote)
University of Washington
2017 - 2017
Director, Content and Social Marketing
Salesforce
2014 - 2015
MSx Fellow
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Education
Master of Science (MS) in Management
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
MS
Columbia University
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