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- #25 in software development
- #30 in Diversity & Race
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Tracy Chou
Diversity & Inclusion Expert within the Tech Industry; Co-Founder of Project Include & Former Pinterest Engineer
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 Tracy 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 worked at Quora, also as an early engineer there. During the previous federal administration she was on reserve with the U.S. Digital Service as a technical consultant as well.
Alongside her engineering career, Tracy is most well-known for her work pushing for diversity in tech. In 2013, she helped to kick off the wave of tech company diversity data disclosures with a Github repository collecting numbers on women in engineering. Tracy is now a founding member of Project Include and focused on driving solutions in the space. 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.
Tracy is an advisor to Homebrew VC and enjoys working with startups on engineering, product, culture, and diversity.
Tracy 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.
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Speech Topics
Tech Diversity: How did we get here and where do we go from here?
Tracy describes how we got to where we are in terms of the lack of diversity in tech, why it matters, and ongoing efforts to address the issue.
A story of sexism in Silicon Valley, and some advice for women entering the field
Tracy tells her own story of becoming a software engineer and shares some advice for women who want to enter and succeed in the field
News
Tracy Chou has become a leading voice for women in the tech industry.
Tracy Chou, a young engineer at Pinterest, is tackling tech’s women problem head-on...
A 2005 Saint Francis High School graduate, who is a rising star in the tech industry returned to her alma mater to encourage students not to overly worry about their future. Tracy Chou, a software engineer at Pinterest...
Diversity is a problem even Silicon Valley cannot solve — something Tracy Chou plainly highlighted in 2013 when she set up a database to help quantify the Valley’s diversity issue with the hopes of bringing to light just how few women engineers there are at top tech firms...
South By Southwest Interactive has released a list of 13 speakers who are confirmed for next year’s technology and innovation event...
Pinterest is taking a bold stand in the push to increase diversity in the technology industry...
The gathering should have been a celebration. Nearly two years earlier, Tracy Chou, a female Asian-American programmer at Pinterest, had disclosed in a much talked-about blog post entitled "Where are the numbers?"...
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