Annie Jean-Baptiste is the Head of Product Inclusion, Research and Activation at Google. She leads Product Inclusion strategy across the company, including consultation, communications, scale and research.
She is passionate about making the web and Google’s products work for underserved communities while ensuring that Google is a place where everyone shines for their differences. She’s responsible for working with Google product teams and senior leaders on the creation and execution of their inclusive design strategy. She formerly created programs related to Diversity talent management and career development within several technical product areas within Google.
She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (go Quakers!) with degrees in International Relations & Political Science. She is an avid Boston sports fan & loves to bring her dog Hercules to work. She is currently based in Google’s San Francisco office.
Outside of Google, Annie is a former American Heart Association spokesperson and a One Young World ambassador, focused on healthy lifestyles in underserved communities. She was also featured in Sheryl Sandberg’s Option B campaign to help people find resilience in the face of adversity.
She currently serves as an intrapreneur in residence at the University Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and a member of the IEEE’s Ethically Aligned Design committee.
She’s also been covered in Vogue, Essence, the Huffington Post, the Root, Milton Magazine and the Boston Globe and been named “One to Watch” by the Haitian Roundtable.
Her book, Building for Everyone, will be released in March of 2020.
