Anna Kang

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Location
Madrid, Spain
School
Barnard College, IE Business School
Expertise
Korean Cooking, Food And Beverage Startups, AgTech
  • Anna has covered innovation and entrepreneurship in food and dining with a focus on small businesses, startups, and emerging chains as a contributor for Forbes.
  • After living in New York City for 10 years, Anna moved to Europe where she has been expanding her knowledge of global food trends and spoke about journalism as an online guest speaker for an Oxford Women in Business Society event.
  • Whether it's raw puffin heart in Iceland, spicy beef tongue in China, or reindeer blood sausage in Sweden, Anna loves to expand her palate by trying new foods whenever she travels.

Experience

Anna started her career in magazine publishing, before moving on to content production and audience engagement for different media brands and nonprofit organizations, such as Money.com and KoreanAmericanStory.org. She is now a freelance writer and editor who specializes in food and drink trends in the U.S. and around the world. She also leads content strategy for TerraceLab, a vertical farming startup based in Madrid, and has written for a variety of consumer and B2B publications. These include Forbes, TIME, Gastro Obscura, SilverKris, Nation's Restaurant News, and Restaurant Hospitality.

Education

She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Barnard College and graduated from a dual-degree program at IE Business School with an International MBA and a Master's in Creative Direction, Content, and Branding.
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