Tracy Chou is a product-minded engineering leader and exited founder with 15+ years building and scaling consumer and enterprise products. She is best known for her work advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech, and being founder and CEO of Block Party, a platform for online safety, privacy, and anti-harassment (acquired by DeleteMe). She was an early engineer at Pinterest, Quora, and the US Digital Service.
For her advocacy and activism work, Tracy has appeared on the covers of The Atlantic, WIRED, and MIT Technology Review, and been honored as one of TIME’s Women of the Year.
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.