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About Shraysi Tandon

Shraysi Tandon

Shraysi Tandon is the co-founder and CEO of Kidsy – an online marketplace for buying and selling preloved kids items.

Prior to becoming a startup founder, Shraysi was a documentary filmmaker and a journalist. She directed the New York Times Critics Pick Invisible Hands – the first feature film to expose child labor and child trafficking within the supply chains of the world’s biggest corporations. The film premiered at the United Nations, played in film festivals around the world, in movie theaters in New York and LA and is available to watch on Amazon and Apple.

A journalist by background, Shraysi was a reporter and anchor for CCTV News covering business and finance based in New York.

Prior to CCTV (re-branded as CGTN), Shraysi was a reporter for Bloomberg TV based in Sydney, Australia. At 25, she became the youngest Bloomberg TV reporter and helped oversee Bloomberg TV’s Australia coverage.

As a reporter, Shraysi has interviewed Israeli President Shimon Peres, U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Academy award winner Matt Damon, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Nobel laureates Muhammad Yunus and Kailash Satyarthi – to name a few.

Shraysi has also covered the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the annual World Bank and IMF meetings in Washington D.C. and the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Shraysi is a board member of Reel Works – a nonprofit that teaches filmmaking and storytelling to underserved teens across NYC and offers film and media internships. She is also on the national leadership council of the American India Foundation – a nonprofit founded by President Bill Clinton that is focused on development work across India, with special programs for women and children. Previously, Shraysi volunteered at the Asylum Seeker Resource Center, Australia’s largest human rights organization, where she helped asylum seekers and refugees find jobs in Australia.

Shraysi got her degree in political science and journalism from the University of Notre Dame Australia. She has lived in India, Indonesia, South Africa and Australia and is fluent in Hindi and Indonesian. She currently splits her time between Chicago, New York and Sioux City.