When Pao sued her Silicon Valley employer
for gender discrimination, she put the tech
field’s treatment of women on trial. In 2015
a jury ruled against Pao, who by then led the
social media site Reddit. Now she runs Proj-
ect Include, a nonprofit she founded to fos-
TECH INVESTOR, DIVERSITY ADVOCATE ter inclusion and diversity in the tech world.Ellen Pao
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