WuDunn worked for a time for Goldman Sachs as a vice president in its investment management division as a private wealth advisor,before leaving to write a book.[4]
In 2009,WuDunn and Kristof received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.[6] In 2011,WuDunn was listed by Newsweek as one of the 150 Women who Shake the World.[7]
WuDunn and Sujuan Ba at Serica Trailblazers 2025
In 2012,WuDunn was selected as one of 60 notable members of the League of Extraordinary Women by Fast Company magazine. In 2013,she was included as one of the leading "women who make America" in the PBS documentary "The Makers". She was also featured in a 2013 Harvard Business School film about prominent women who have graduated from the business school. In August 2015,Business Insider named her one of the 31 most prominent graduates of the Harvard Business School.
In 2015 she signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for;the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma,urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively,which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.[8]
WuDunn has co-authored five best-sellers with her husband. China Wakes:The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power and Thunder from the East:Portrait of a Rising Asia are non-fictionAsian studies books which examine the cultural,social,and political situation of East Asia largely through interviews and personal experiences. Her third best-selling book,was Half the Sky:Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, and WuDunn later was featured in the award-winning PBS documentary made of the book.[9]Half the Sky was adapted into a Facebook game that aimed to raise awareness about women's issues globally.[10] Her fourth best-seller,A Path Appears:Transforming Lives,Creating Opportunity,published in 2014,is a guide to effective charitable giving and making a difference in addressing global challenges.[11] It was turned into a widely watched PBS documentary,featuring Jennifer Garner,Eva Longoria,Alfre Woodard,Blake Lively,in early 2015.[12]Tightrope:Americans Reaching for Hope,published in 2020,was also a New York Times best seller.[13]
Boards
WuDunn served for more than a decade on the Cornell Universityboard of trustees,including as a member of the board's finance committee and investment committee. Initially appointed to the Cornell board by the university president,she was later reappointed by the New York governor and served under two governors. She also served for many years on the advisory council of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and in 2013 was elected by alumni to the Princeton University board of trustees. She currently serves on the board of advisors for Fuel Freedom Foundation. WuDunn is also on the advisory boards of a number of start-up companies in a variety of fields,including healthcare and mobile security.
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