Tracy Chou is an entrepreneur and software engineer well-known for her work advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech. Motivated by personal experience in countering online harassment, and drawing on professional experience as an early engineer at social media companies like Facebook, Pinterest, and Quora, she founded the tech startup Block Party to build end-user solutions for online safety and privacy. She is interested in questions of sustainably supporting journalists, politicians, bureaucrats, and other democracy workers against online violence and intimidation. Chou has been recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s Women of the Year, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators under 35, and Forbes Tech 30 under 30, and she was a Terman Fellow and Mayfield Fellow at Stanford University. For the 2024-2025 academic year, Chou is an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. While at Shorenstein, Chou will explore sustainable funding models aimed at protecting journalists and other public figures in society from online abuse and harassment.
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