Tracy Chou

Founder & CEO, Block Party

Tracy Chou is the founder and CEO of Block Party, a tech startup building tools for online safety and privacy. Their latest product, Privacy Party, helps people to deep clean their social media, privacy settings, and notifications. Tracy is also 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 Medium article “Where are the numbers?” helped jumpstart the practice of tech companies disclosing their diversity data. Tracy was previously an early engineer at Pinterest, Quora, and the U.S. Digital Service. She has been recognized as TIME Woman of the Year, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators under 35 and Forbes Tech 30 under 30, and was a Terman Fellow and Mayfield Fellow at Stanford University, where she studied Electrical Engineering (BS) and Computer Science (MS).