18 Facts About Lisa Gelobter

Lisa Gelobter was born on 1971 and is a computer scientist, technologist and chief executive.

Lisa Gelobter is credited with developing the animation technology used to create GIFs.

In 2016, Lisa Gelobter founded and took on the role of Chief Executive Officer of tEQuitable, a start-up that provides an independent and confidential platform to address issues of bias, harassment, and discrimination in the workplace.

Lisa Gelobter raised more than $2 million for tEQuitable, becoming one of the only thirty-four Black women to ever raise $1 million or more in venture capital.

Lisa Gelobter has been involved in many social activism and political campaigns.

Lisa Gelobter has worked with Black Girls Code and the Kapor Center for Social Impact in efforts to address issues of racism and bias in the tech industry.

Lisa Gelobter was born in 1971 in Washington, DC and grew up in New York City.

Lisa Gelobter's father was a Polish Jew, and her mother was Afro-Caribbean.

Lisa Gelobter expressed an interest in mathematics from a very early age.

Lisa Gelobter enrolled in Brown University in 1987, eventually graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Lisa Gelobter often took breaks off school due to financial challenges and she worked as a Teaching Assistant during school semesters, even when she wasn't fully enrolled.

Lisa Gelobter then went on to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Film from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Early in her career, Lisa Gelobter was the Director of Program Management at Macromedia.

Lisa Gelobter's innovation marked the advent of the internet's interactive media platform and the rise of GIFs.

In 2015, Lisa Gelobter served as Chief Digital Service Officer for the United States Department of Education during the Presidency of Barack Obama.

In 2016, Lisa Gelobter founded tEquitable, an independent, confidential technology platform to address issues of bias, discrimination and harassment in the workplace.

Lisa Gelobter has raised more than $2 million for the platform.

Lisa Gelobter is a former member of the New York Urban League STEM Advisory Board and was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People.