Tracy Chou

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. Before Pinterest, she worked at Quora, also as an early engineer there. 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. She is now a founding member of Project Include, focused on driving solutions in the space.

Tracy has been honored as Forbes 30 under 30, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators under 35, and Fast Company Most Creative People in Business.