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