Claudette Monica Powell

Sister Monica Clare (born Claudette Monica Powell; 1966) is an American Episcopalian nun and TikToker. She is the sister superior and youngest member of the Community of St. John Baptist in Mendham Township, New Jersey.

Biography

Claudette Monica Powell was raised in the Southern U.S., in the Southern Baptist tradition. She became interested in nuns at a young age. she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked for around 20 years in advertising, movie poster design, stand-up comedy, and television writing.

Sister Monica Clare manages the community's social media and website. She joined TikTok in June 2021, accumulating more than 43,000 followers by the following month. Her content has included videos on convent life, Episcopal teachings, and the convent's cat and dog, Jennie. By late 2024, her TikTok account had more than 200,000 followers and had accumulated more than 2.5 million likes. Her account has been credited with attracting the community's two most recent postulants, the first in over ten years.

Powell wrote a memoir, A Change of Habit, which published in April 2025.