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Windsor Hanger Western (born October 11, 1988) is an entrepreneur who co-founded Her Campus, an online college magazine geared toward college women. At Her Campus, Hanger Western is currently president and publisher. She is a 2010 graduate from Harvard University with a Bachelor's degree in history of science. [1]

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Her Campus

Hanger Western met Stephanie Kaplan Lewis and Annie Wang while the three of them were undergraduates at Harvard. The three of them proposed a business plan for Her Campus, a national online magazine with individualized branches for specific colleges and universities across the country, and won the Harvard Student Agencies Investment Award as a winner in the i3 Innovation Challenge. Her Campus was then launched in September 2009. [2]

Awards

Hanger Western was named to Inc. magazine's Inc. magazine's "30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs" for 2010, [3] Glamour magazine's "20 Amazing Young Women", [4] and The Boston Globe's "25 Most Stylish Bostonians for 2010 [5] Hanger Western was the 2016 winner of Target Magazine's Target Marketer of the Year. [6] Hanger Western, Kaplan Lewis and Wang were named to the Forbes 30 under 30 in 2017 as Her Campus Media. [7]

Personal life

Hanger Western married Alex Western in 2013. [8] She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and their two daughters.

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References

  1. "Meet the Founders | Her Campus". www.hercampus.com. Archived from the original on 2009-09-23.
  2. "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. Fletcher, Heather. "2016 Target Marketer of the Year". Target Marketing. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
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