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]

Her Campus

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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

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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

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

See also

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References

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  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.
  7. ^ "Her Campus Media". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  8. ^ "Windsor Hanger". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-03-27.