For more information, visit our website at. Piper Center for Creative Writing is a non-academic unit at Arizona State University that serves as the artistic and intellectual heart of a vibrant, multinational, and diverse community of writers, dedicated to serving the public through exceptional literary programs and resources. Piper Center for Creative WritingĮstablished in 2003, The Virginia G.

For more information, visit her website at. Sloan Foundation Fellow, she is also the founder of the digital archive The Human Computer Project and the co-founder of the magazine Inside Mexico. Margot Lee Shetterly is an entrepreneur, writer and researcher whose debut book is Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (William Morrow/HarperCollins). Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle MonÃ¡e, Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali, and Kevin Costner, released in theaters on January 6.

Hidden Figures has also been adapted into a major motion picture by 20th Century Fox starring Taraji P. With more emphasis than ever on both women’s roles in STEM and the importance of recovering Civil Rights era narratives, Hidden Figures sensitively negotiates issues of race, gender, representation, and privilege, restoring a lost chapter of American History While Jim Crow segregated and removed them from public memory, these women of color were significant and crucial contributors to some of NASA’s greatest achievements-putting John Glenn into orbit, landing men on the moon, and laying a foundation for the modern flight industry. We will not be able to accomodate overflow seating.īeginning in World War II and moving through the Cold War, Hidden Figures follows the careers of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who worked as ‘human computers’ at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia. While this event is open to the public and free, please note that seating is first-come, first-serve, and RSVP’s do not guarantee a seat.

Margot will take questions from the audience and sign books after the presentation. Piper Center for Creative Writing as we present author Margot Lee Shetterly for a look behind her debut book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race on Tuesday, April 4th, 2017 at the Orpheum Theater (203 W Adams St, Phoenix, AZ 85003) at 7:00 pm. You do need to RSVP to get a seat, although it’s free. Margot Lee Shetterly, author of Hidden Figures, will be appearing in Phoenix on April 4.

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