Kristen Ransom is an American computer engineer and social entrepreneur. She is the CTO and co-founder of IncluDe Web Design and Development, a web design firm offering affordable services to women- and minority-owned organizations.
Ransom was fascinated with engineering from a young age. In 2017, she told Forbes, "From a really young age I loved to take things apart and put them back together, and I didn't know there was a name for that until members of my family started calling me 'The Engineer'."[1]
She earned a B.S. degree in human-factors engineering from Tufts University. During college, she was president of the institution's chapter of the Society of Black Engineers. Ransom received a Master of Science in Engineering Management in 2018 from the Tufts University School of Engineering. Her business education was supported by a Kauffman Foundation-sponsored boot camp and the Epicenter Community Accelerator program.
Before founding IncluDe, Ransom developed hardware and software for Harley Davidson[2] and the MITRE Corporation.[3]
On IncluDe, Ransom has said, "we’re trying to change the face of tech and make it so everyone's included."[4] After founding IncluDe, Ransom also began appearing as a motivational speaker at events and conferences. In 2017, she was named one of Boston Magazine’s Top 30 Rising Tech Stars.[5] In 2021, she created the website for the Boston "All Inclusive" tourism campaign.[6]