Shaina Zafar
Gen Z founder of the most popular Gen Z marketing agency & Asian/Muslim activist
Shaina Zafar, 23, is the Co-founder/Chief Marketing Officer at JUV Consulting. She is an American-Muslim obsessed with solving problems with human-centered design, powered by Gen Z to build creative solutions.
At JUV, she oversees community building, partnership development, and thought leadership. She is a first-generation, low-income college graduate who attended the University of Pennsylvania. For her thesis, she studied the impact of ESG regulation on forced Uyghur labor practices.
On campus, she was a part of the Pan Asian American Community House Board of Advisors and Turner Society for Social Impact. Off campus, she served as the United State of Women Ambassador for Pennsylvania, advocating for AAPI and Muslim issues.
Previously, she has worked with the Born This Way Foundation, Microsoft, and Verizon Media’s BUILT BY GIRLS Program and founded Code for a Cause to encourage young girls to code social justice projects.
She has been recognized as a Coca-Cola Scholar, StartingBloc Fellow, and was the youngest speaker at the United Nations and World Bank International Young Leaders Assembly.
Every year on her birthday, she makes a Spotify playlist with 365 songs—customized with its own Playlist cover. If she isn’t exploring new music, you can find her searching up new fonts, cooking at odd hours of the night, or tweeting @ShainaZafar!
Follow her on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter on @shainazafar.
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