Her Campus Media

Her Campus founders Annie Wang, Stephanie Kaplan Lewis, and Windsor Hanger Western met as Harvard undergraduates while running Harvard’s lifestyle and fashion magazine, a student publication on campus. After moving the magazine online, the site garnered enormous interest from college women across the country, who began reading it and asking for advice on how they could start something similar at their own schools.

What the three founders quickly realized was that women at other colleges were yearning to read campus-specific content. Recognizing the need for more content targeted at college women, and the need for a platform to help aspiring student journalists, Stephanie, Windsor, and Annie dreamed up HerCampus.com, an online magazine written by college women, for college women, with both nationally- and locally-focused content. After developing a business plan for their idea, they went on to enter and win Harvard’s business plan competition, and launched HerCampus.com during the fall of 2009. The three began full-time on Her Campus after they graduated in the summer of 2010 and have been busy building the business ever since.