Shen Tong 沈彤 | |
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![]() Shen Tong at 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre in Washington, D.C. | |
Born | 1968 (age 55–56) |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Brandeis University (BS) Peking University Harvard University Boston University |
Occupation(s) | Investor, activist, author, philanthropist |
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Shen Tong (Simplified Chinese: 沈彤; Hanyu Pinyin: Shěn Tóng) (born 1968) is an American impact investor, activist, and writer. He founded business accelerators FoodFutureCo in 2015 and Food-X in 2014, the latter of which is recognized by Fast Company as one of "The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Food".[1] He was a Chinese dissident who was exiled as one of the student leaders in the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989.[2] Shen was one of the People of the Year in Newsweek 1989,[citation needed] and he became a media, software, social entrepreneur, and investor in the late 1990s. He serves on the board of Food Tank.