Tracy Chou is an entrepreneur, software engineer, and diversity advocate. She is currently exploring and advising a range of new projects across the startup world, civic tech and engagement, and diversity activism.

From 2011 to 2016, Chou was an engineer and tech lead at Pinterest, with roles on home feed and recommendations, ads products, web, infrastructure, API, email, and growth. Before Pinterest, she had worked at Quora and gathered internship experience at Rocket Fuel, Google, and Facebook. During the previous federal administration, she was on reserve with the U.S. Digital Service as a technical consultant.

Alongside her engineering career, Chou is best known for raising the profile of the issue of the low representation of women in technology companies, and pressuring companies to reveal more statistics about the composition of their workforce. In 2016, she co-founded the advocacy group Project Include with 7 other women from the industry. She was named Forbes Tech 30 under 30 in 2014 and has been profiled in Vogue, WIRED, The Atlantic, and other outlets for her advocacy.

Chou graduated from Stanford with an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, where she was a Terman Scholar and Mayfield Fellow, and elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.

STEM Education, Women in Business, Technology, Science & Technology, Engineers, Software, software development, Diversity & Race, For Diversity Events, Diversity Topics, Influential Women, Internet & Technology Industries, Inclusion, STEM