You’ll also gain insight on Margot’s experiences writing Hidden Figures-from interviewing Katherine Johnson to getting the book published-and hear her advice for young people at the early stages of their careers. She discusses the importance of having an objective view from the outside and how living in Mexico allowed her to write Hidden Figures. She explains how she happened upon the book idea and how her awareness of the women in Hidden Figures-Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson-came to the fore. She describes her childhood in Hampton, Virginia, growing up surrounded by engineers and scientists and shares her experience witnessing the 9/11 attacks while living in New York City. Today, you’ll hear about Margot’s journey in writing Hidden Figures. In addition to her work as an author, Margot is the founder of The Human Computer Project, an endeavor dedicated to recovering the names and accomplishments of all of the women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists and engineers at NACA and NASA from the 1930s through the 1980s. After a career in investment banking and media, Margot moved to Mexico with her husband and founded Inside Mexico, an English-language magazine, while writing Hidden Figures.

Her book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, tells the story of African-American women mathematicians who helped provide NASA with the raw computing power it needed to dominate the heavens.

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