Deena Shanker is a business journalist specializing in consumer products, food, beverage, retail, and CPG sectors. She joined Bloomberg News as a reporter after serving as a senior reporter at Quartz from approximately 2017 to 2021 and earlier at HuffPost, contributing to business and lifestyle reporting. She graduated from Barnard College around 2005. During her undergraduate years at Columbia University-affiliated Barnard, she became publicly known for her testimony in the Columbia Unbecoming documentary about Professor Joseph Massad, which was found credible by Columbia's ad hoc investigative committee amid campus debates over Middle East politics. No further major public activities or personal details are widely documented beyond her journalism career and student-era involvement.