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Margot Lee Shetterly

Author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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1969
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female
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USA
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Hampton, Virginia, USA
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Hampton, Virginia, USA
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Mexico
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University of Virginia
Phoebus High School
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investment banker
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Shetterly, Aran (husband)
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The Human Computer Project
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Mackenzie Brady Watson
Jason Richman
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Margot Lee Shetterly is the author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (William Morrow/HarperCollins) and the founder of The Human Computer Project, an endeavor that is recovering the names and accomplishments of all of the women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists and engineers at the NACA and NASA from the 1930s through the 1980s. 

She is a Hampton, Virginia native, University of Virginia graduate, an entrepreneur, and an intrepid traveler who spent 11 years living in Mexico, currently living in Charlottesville, VA.
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