#16: Space Genius
These days you can find women in every profession that a man works in, but it wasn’t always like that. There are women that paved the way for this meaningful act of equality to become part of everyday life. And for so long, their work wasn’t even acknowledged as their own work…

If you have seen the 2016 film, Hidden Figures, then you know exactly what we’re talking about. Katherine Johnson was one of the women that helped calculate the trajectory of NASA’s first trip into space. Katherine Johnson is an African American female heroine in the modern age.