About Elle Rustique, PhD

Dr. Elle Rustique, CEO and Founder of TipBrightly is an educator and social scientist turned startup founder on a mission to revolutionize the service industry by optimizing mobile payments to make tipping more personalized, transparent, and friction-free. Elle holds degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Columbia University’s Teachers College; University College London’s Institute of Education; and completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship in Education at Stanford University. Devoting her life’s work to solving systemic problems of diversity, access, and inclusion, Elle began her career in education as a high school teacher in East Harlem, New York. The daughter of immigrants from the Philippines, Elle was inspired to help women like her mother, who was a housekeeper and spent her earnings taking her children to McDonald''s