Tracy Chou is the founder and CEO of Block Party, a tech startup building consumer tools for online safety and privacy.
Block Party's latest product is a browser extension that helps people protect their online presence from being weaponized against them in social engineering attacks, harassment campaigns, fraud and more by deep cleaning their social media and privacy settings across 9+ platforms.
Tracy is widely known for her work advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech and was a co-founder of Project Include, a non-profit working to create a tech ecosystem where everyone has a fair chance to succeed. In 2013, her viral Medium article “Where are the numbers?” helped jumpstart the practice of tech companies disclosing their diversity data.
Tracy was previously a software engineer at Pinterest, Quora, and the U.S. Digital Service. She has been recognized as one of TIME's Women of the Year, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators under 35, Forbes Tech 30 under 30, and ELLE's Women of the Year. She was a Terman Fellow and Mayfield Fellow at Stanford University, where she earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science.