Annie Wang (entrepreneur)
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Annie Wang (born January 9, 1989) is co-founder, Chief Product Officer, and creative director of Her Campus, an online magazine geared towards college women. She is also in charge of building and developing the website of Her Campus.[1] Wang graduated from Harvard University in 2017 with an AB in Visual and Environmental Studies, after taking a leave of absence in 2010 to work on Her Campus.[2]
Her Campus[edit]
Wang, along with Stephanie Kaplan Lewis and Windsor Hanger Western, is the co-founder of Her Campus, an online magazine for college women. The three women proposed a business plan in March 2009 and won the Harvard Student Agencies Investment Award in the i3 Innovation Challenge.[3] Her Campus was launched in September 2009.[3]
Awards and recognition[edit]
Along with Kaplan Lewis and Hanger Western, Wang was named to Inc. magazine's "30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs" for 2010,[4] Glamour magazine's "20 Amazing Young Women",[5] and The Boston Globe's "25 Most Stylish Bostonians for 2010.[6] Wang, Kaplan Lewis and Hanger Western were named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 as Her Campus Media.[7]
Personal life[edit]
Wang married Kenneth Fan in 2014.[8] She currently resides in Miami, Florida.
Notes[edit]
- ^ "| Her Campus". Her Campus. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ^ "Annie Wang on Instagram: "Harvard dropout no more 5/25/2017 When I found out a year and a half ago I would be moving to Miami for @kfan35's residency, I decided to…"". Instagram. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ^ a b "Young Entrepreneurs: A Conversation With Stephanie Kaplan". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ^ "Stephanie Kaplan, Windsor Hanger, and Annie Wang, Founders of Her Campus". Inc.com. 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ^ Kaplan, Stephanie (2010-11-24). "Glamour's 20 Amazing Young Women Who Are Already Changing the World". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ^ "25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010". Boston.com. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ^ "Her Campus Media". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ^ "Annie Wang and Kenneth Fan". The New York Times. 2014-06-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-27.