Former investment banker turned author who rocketed to fame after the release of her book Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race. The book would inspire the film of the same name.
After graduating from University of Virginia, she worked for several years in investment banking before shifting into various media startups.
In 2013, she founded The Human Computer Project, an organization dedicated to archiving the work of women computers and mathematicians during the early days of NASA and NACA.
Her father was a research scientist at NASA-Langley Research Center and her mother was an English professor at Hampton University. She and her husband, Aran, founded the newspaper Inside Mexico.
She sold the film rights to Hidden Figures before the books release. The Oscar-nominated film starred Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae, and Octavia Spencer.
