Kelly Stonelake landed her dream job at Meta. 15 years later she’s suing the company alleging sexual assaults, denied promotions, and a deeply embedded culture of discrimination

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It was a pinch-me moment in Kelly Stonelake’s career. 

In 2017, at a prestigious advertising awards event in Cannes, France, she was invited to meet and chat with Sheryl Sandberg, one of the most powerful women in corporate America, a high-profile champion of women in the workplace, and Facebook’s then COO. Stonelake was a mid-level creative director for the tech giant at the time, and one of her team projects had been shortlisted for an award. In fact, Sandberg was about to take the stage to discuss, among other topics, Stonelake’s work.