Sheryl WuDunn

Sheryl WuDunn is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, best-selling author, business executive. She was the first Chinese-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize, awarded in 1990 for coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests while serving as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times in Beijing and Tokyo. Sheryl is co-founder and principal of FullSky Partners, which advises for-profit ventures with a social mission in healthcare and technology, directing catalytic capital into innovative cancer therapeutics and diagnostics. She is also co-owner of Kristof Farms, producing highly rated Kristof Wines and award-winning Kristof Farms cider from estate-grown grapes and apples. Previously, Sheryl was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs and before that had a distinguished career at The New York Times, where she worked as both a journalist and an executive. She held senior leadership roles at The New York Times, led strategic planning and circulation initiatives focused on reaching younger audiences and was the Times’s first TV anchor on their Discovery-Times channel. She has co-authored several bestselling books, including China Wakes, Thunder from the East, Half the Sky, A Path Appears, and Tightrope, inspiring documentaries and digital campaigns. Sheryl has been recognized by Fast Company’s League of Extraordinary Women and PBS’s The Makers. She holds degrees from Cornell (B.A.), Harvard (M.B.A.), and Princeton (M.P.A.), is on the Harvard Board of Overseers, and is a former trustee at Princeton and Cornell.