About

Annie Jean-Baptiste is the author of Building for Everyone, the first book about building inclusive products across the intersections of 12 dimensions of diversity.

She built the practice of product inclusion & equity in order to expand how product teams thought about inclusion as it related to development and design. Since the launch of the product inclusion team in 2014, many companies across industries have followed suit and creating their own product, inclusion, teams and strategies.

She currently serves as an intrapreneur in residence at the University Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, a facilitator for Penn’s Chief Learning Officer Business Acumen program  and a member of both the CTA Health Equity and Access Leadership (HEAL) Coalition and sits on the IEEE's Executive committee, Ethically Aligned Design committee and co-chairs the DEI committee. She’s been inducted into the Haitian Roundtable’s  1804 society as “One to Watch” and inducted as one of the 30 Black Stars for Face to Face Africa in 2019. Annie is a former American Heart Association spokesperson and a One Young World ambassador, focused on healthy lifestyles in underserved communities. She is also a former Hack the Hood mentor. 

Annie is also the Head of Product Inclusion & Equity at Google. She leads strategy across the company and consults with various Alphabet companies, including consultation, communications, scale and research and created the movement as a way to ensure underrepresented users felt validated throughout the product design process.

She formerly created programs related to Diversity talent management and career development within several technical product areas within Google. 

Annie is passionate about making the web work for underserved communities while ensuring that Google is a place where everyone shines for their differences. 

She’s also been covered in Vogue, Essence Magazine, Business Insider, Teen Vogue, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, Cheddar, Business Insider, the Huffington Post, the Root, the Council of Fashion Designers of America Annual Report, The Miami Times, Bustle,Boston Globe and Fortune Magazine. 

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.

Her book, Building for Everyone, is available now. Connect with her on social media: @its_me_ajb.