
Sheryl WuDunn, the first Chinese-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize, is a business executive and best-selling author committed to promoting social and economic opportunity. She is currently co-founder at FullSky Partners, advising for-profit ventures with a social mission in healthcare and innovative cancer technologies. She also is co-owner at Kristof Farms, which grows grapes and apples to produce the highly rated Kristof Wines and award-winning Kristof Farms cider. Previously, Sheryl was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in investment management. She also had a distinguished career at The New York Times, where she worked as both a journalist and an executive. As a foreign correspondent in Beijing and Tokyo, she and her husband, Nicholas Kristof, won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, making her the first Asian-American woman to receive the honor. She led strategic planning and circulation initiatives at The Times, focusing on younger audiences. Sheryl has co-authored several bestselling books, including China Wakes, Thunder from the East, Half the Sky, A Path Appears, and Tightrope. Her work has inspired documentaries, digital campaigns, and advocacy efforts centered on women’s rights, inequality, and global development, including the acclaimed Half the Sky PBS documentary. Recognized by Fast Company’s League of Extraordinary Women and PBS’s The Makers, Sheryl holds degrees from Cornell (B.A.), Harvard (M.B.A.), and Princeton (M.P.A.). She currently serves on the Board of Overseers at Harvard University and is a former Board Trustee at Princeton and Cornell Universities.