Seaon
Shin

Seaon Shin is a social entrepreneur, an (almost) graduate of the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania, and has helped build startups in a broad range of industries: youth empowerment, healthcare and home improvement multi-sided markets. At the age of 18, Seaon co-founded GYEM, Global Youth Empowerment, was a Top 8 Ashoka's Young Social Entrepreneurs (TEDxYSE) awardee and a Doha Foundation WISE fellow. Junior year of college she dropped out to raise $250K in start-up capital for her first start-up and ran trainings for over 500 youth across Dubai and the UAE. She's currently passionate about learning what it means to build value-driven enterprises and sustainable community development. She also dabbles in music making, loves Acroyoga and occasionally climbs fake rocks.