Tracy Chou was born on 1987 and is a software engineer and advocate for diversity in technology related fields.
15 Facts About Tracy Chou
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Tracy Chou previously worked at Pinterest and Quora with internship experience at Rocket Fuel, Google, and Facebook.
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Tracy Chou is best known for raising the profile of the issue of the low representation of women in technology companies, and pressuring companies to reveal more statistics about the composition of their workforce.
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Tracy Chou attended St Francis High School in Mountain View.
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Tracy Chou studied computer science at Stanford University with a specialization in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Tracy Chou joined Quora as the company's fourth employee, but left in October 2011 to join Pinterest, becoming one of the first 15 employees at the then-fledgling pinboard company.
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In February 2015, Tracy Chou signed on as a consultant for the United States Digital Service, a consortium of technology practitioners trying to make government in the United States more efficient.
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In October 2013, Tracy Chou attended the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, where she became curious about the issue of female representation in technology companies, and decided to gather data to assess the severity of the issue.
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Tracy Chou's focus on the issue is credited with pressuring larger companies such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft to release diversity reports.
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In July 2014, Tracy Chou published an update on Pinterest's engineering blog describing the company's progress so far on diversity and inclusion.
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Tracy Chou has identified a number of possible reasons for the disparity in the representation of women in technology.
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Tracy Chou has argued that if nobody suggests to a woman that a career as a software engineer is a realistic possibility, she is less likely to consider it.
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Tracy Chou thinks that networking opportunities and role models are more limited for women and minorities.
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Tracy Chou has stated that condescending attitudes toward women are pervasive in Silicon Valley.
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Tracy Chou has commented that women who look very feminine are often ignored in technical settings.