Monica Lewinsky, the social activist and former White House intern at the center of President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, will speak at the University of Iowa as part of the UI Lecture Committee fall series of speakers.

According to the University Lecture Committee's website, Lewinsky will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the IMU Main Lounge. Lewinsky is the last of nine speakers slated for the Lecture Committee's fall semester and arguably the most well-known name on the list.

Lewinsky became a household name across the country after it came to light that she and President Bill Clinton had engaged in numerous sexual encounters with each other in 1995 and 1996, according to USA Today. Lewinsky, then an intern in her 20s, and Clinton, a married sitting president in his 50s, were at the epicenter of a national scandal that rocked country for years.

Known as the Lewinsky scandal, the investigation into the affair by Ken Starr led to the Clinton becoming only the second president, along with President Andrew Johnson in 1868, ever to face an impeachment trial by the House of Representatives.

According to the Lecture Committee's website, "drawing from her unique experiences at the epicenter of a media maelstrom," Lewinsky has since then become an advocate "for a safer and more compassionate social media environment."

Since 2014, Lewinsky has reemerged into the media spotlight. For a 2014 story she wrote for Vanity Fair, Lewinsky said that she had "decided, finally, to stick my head above the parapet so that I can take back my narrative and give a purpose to my past."

Since then, she has joined Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization, as an ambassador and adviser. In 2015, she spoke out against cyberbulling in a TED talk presentation.

UI Lecture Committee series include two speakers giving lectures at Hancher Auditorium: NPR and ABC political reporter Cokie Roberts on Sept. 13 and Marvel comic book writer G. Willow Wilson on Oct. 8.

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Other speakers include Emmy-winning journalist and "Nightline" co-anchor Byron Pitts, Oct. 21 at the IMU, National Book Foundation executive director Lisa Lucas, Sept. 25 at The Englert Theatre, and magician Nate Staniforth, Monday at Englert.

All lectures are free and open to the public. For the full lectures series, visit. lectures.uiowa.edu.

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If you go

What: Monica Lewinsky lecture

Where: IMU Main Lounge, 125 N. Madison St., Iowa City.

When: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24.

Tickets: The lecture is free and open to the public.