Klein ROSE

Margot Lee Shetterly never knew she was in on a secret.

“When I heard the words black, female and scientist, I didn’t think that had to apply to three different people,” Shetterly says. “I didn’t think that couldn’t be just one person with all of those adjectives.”

With her father working as a scientist in Virginia’s NASA Langley Laboratory, Shetterly had a front-row seat to the lives of mathematicians and researchers who were both African-American and female. Once she realized this wasn’t the norm across the country – specifically, when her husband pointed out that fact – she felt compelled to do something. Read more…