Susan Joy Fowler Rigetti (née Fowler; born April 17, 1991) is an American writer and ex-software engineer known for her role in influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies treat sexual harassment. Her business celebrity led to book and Hollywood film deals based on her experience. She worked at two technology startup companies before joining Uber in late 2015. In early 2017, her blog post on sexual harassment at the company was widely shared and ultimately led to the ouster of Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick. Following her career in software engineering, she served as editor-in-chief of a quarterly publication by the payment processing company Stripe, as a technology opinion editor at The New York Times, and as the editor of Slate's "Future Tense" column.
