Professors talk and recently we did an interview with desousa. Now we have casey, why are you not hear the professor . Caller well, i need assistance and im physically disabled so i was unable to get connected with someone. But i am watching. We are glad you are watching. Caller i am reading two books for the second time and i am enjoying them all over again. The book of the books are young adult selections. The first book is called the hate you give randy thomas. The second one is called. [inaudible] because i am a middle school librarian, im really enjoying this book because they both have themes of social justice and they really have the child is africanamericans preteens and teenagers are facing today. My hope is to be able to read is with my students during the school year. When you give advice to middle School Students on what or how to read, what is the number one thing that you tell them . Well, i have a readers advisory as a librarian first start off with what are you interest
Project that youre work on. This is something you have continued past the life of the book. Could you talk a little bit about what youre doing there and how its succeeded since the book and the movie have come out . So. Yeah so, yeah, the human computer project. Essentially, what i was so surprised to discover doing the research for Hidden Figures is how many women were involved in computing, as i talked about before. Not just at nasa, but at all of these other organizations. And so this is really a way to try and catalog all of the women who were involved in doing this work in the early days of computing and really understand, you know, what kind of work they were doing and also to get a snapshot of women in these fields and see if theres something that we might learn from those early pioneers that we can apply to women working in these fields today. So if people want to participate, they can find it onlinesome. Yep. The humancomputerproject. Com, or you can reach out to me at margo l
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] me i have your attention. Please take your seats. The presentation is about to begin. There will be a question and answer time at the end of the presentation. You can go to one of the two microphones and line up for a question for you to begin i like to, tv critic for npr. [applause]. How you doing . Thanks so much for joining us here. As was said im a tv critic for National Public radio, so i should be talking to an author. Actually, i have written a lot about races and media and interviewed for the smithsonian so we have a bit in common here. Our esteemed guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist and english professor . Yes. Virginian native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job out of school. And had a magazine inside mexico and started working on Hidden Figures in 2010 and became a New York Times number one bestseller, spawned a movie that was oscarnominated, Margot Lee Shetterly. [cheers and applause] so, i hear
[inaudible conversations] may i have your attention, please. Please take your seats, the presentations about to begin. Before we get started, id like you to be aware there will be, most likely, a question and answer period at the end of the presentation. When its time, youll be able to go to one of the two microphones on either side of the stage. Id like to introduce a tv critic for npr. [applause] how you doing . Thanks so much for joining us here. We really appreciate it. As was said, my names eric, and im tv critic for National Public radio so, of course, i should be talking to an author. [laughter] actually, ive written a lot about race and media and also have, i interviewed taraji p. Henson for the smithsonian, so weve got a little bit many common here. [applause] so our esteemed guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist and english professor . Yes. Virginia native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job. Wow. Out of high school. And also had a magazine for expats
Tweet us, twitter. Com. book tv or post a comment on her facebook page, facebook. Com. book tv. Man have your attention please. Please take your seats. The presentation is about to begin. Be aware there will most likely be a question and answer time at the end of the presentation and when its time you can go to one of the two microphones on either side of the stage and lineup. To begin i would like to introduce eric dagan, tv critic for npr. Tvpplause]. How are you doing. Thank you for joining us here. We appreciate itwe and as was said my name is eric dagan. I have written a lot about race and media and have also interviewed henson for the smithsonian, so we have a bit here. Our esteemed guest, the daughter of a nasa scientistshe and english professor, virginian native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job out of school. And also a magazine inside mexico. Yesic. Started working on Hidden Figures in 2010 news and became a york times number one best seller and spawne