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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.[1]

Her Campus

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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.[2] Her Campus was launched in September 2009.[2]

Awards and recognition

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Along with Kaplan Lewis and Hanger Western, Wang was named to Inc. magazine's "30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs" for 2010,[3] Glamour's "20 Amazing Young Women",[4] and The Boston Globe's "25 Most Stylish Bostonians" for 2010.[5] Wang, Kaplan Lewis and Hanger Western were named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017 as Her Campus Media.[6]

Personal life

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Wang married Kenneth Fan in 2014.[7]

Notes

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  1. ^ "| Her Campus". Her Campus. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  2. ^ a b "Young Entrepreneurs: A Conversation With Stephanie Kaplan". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  3. ^ "Stephanie Kaplan, Windsor Hanger, and Annie Wang, Founders of Her Campus". Inc.com. 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  4. ^ Kaplan, Stephanie (2010-11-24). "Glamour's 20 Amazing Young Women Who Are Already Changing the World". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  5. ^ "25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010". Boston.com. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  6. ^ "Her Campus Media". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  7. ^ "Annie Wang and Kenneth Fan". The New York Times. 2014-06-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
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