Tracy Chou

Tracy Chou is a founding team member of Project Include, an open community working toward providing meaningful diversity and inclusion solutions for tech companies. In 2013, Chou helped kick off the wave of tech company diversity data disclosures with a Github repository collecting numbers on women in engineering, and in doing so she became an accidental activist on the issue of diversity in tech.

Prior to Project Include, Chou was a software engineer at Pinterest, working most recently on the home feed and recommendations team. She previously served as a tech lead on the ads and web teams, and worked on infrastructure, API, email and growth as well. Before Pinterest, she worked at Quora, also as an early engineer.

She was named to the Forbes “Tech 30 under 30” list in 2014 and has been profiled in Vogue and WIRED for her work. Tracy is an advisor to Homebrew VC and is on reserve with the U.S. Digital Service.

Chou earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and M.S. in computer science, both from Stanford University. While there, she was a Mayfield Fellow at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.