This is a rare opportunity! Hope you can attend one of these events…
See if your school or district might adopt this book! 6th - 12th grade .... Hidden History of NASA!
To attend the Houston Public Library event – Wednesday, August 16th 6:30 please register here:
NASA FRIENDS - on site at NASA...join us for the lecture and booksigning on THURSDAY, August 17th at 11am-Noon and 12:30-1:30 Booksigning Bldg 3!
We welcome you to join us for a Lecture and Book-signing featuring Dr. Duchess Harris, Author “Hidden Human Computers”. Dr. Harris shares her grandmother’s story from her book “Hidden Human Computers” on Thursday, August 17 from 11am-12:00pm in Bldg. 1, Rm 860, followed by her Book-signing from 12:30-1:30pm in the Building 3 Cafeteria.
Biography:
Dr. Harris is the Chair of the American Studies Department at Macalester College. Professor Harris was a Mellon Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated in 1991 with a degree in American History and Afro-American Studies. Six years later, she earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She did postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School and at the Womanist Studies Consortium at the University of Georgia.
In 1998, Harris joined the faculty at Macalester College. She became the first Chair of the American Studies Department in 2003 and was granted tenure in 2004. In 2007 she decided that attending law school would allow her to expand the scope of her scholarship even further. In 2008, she was the only law student in the country chosen to be an Associate Editor for Litigation News, the American Bar Association Section's quarterly flagship publication. In 2009, she won a $96,000 fellowship from the Bush Leadership Program, which encourages their recipients to create positive change in their communities. In 2010, she enhanced the William Mitchell College of Law’s community and created positive change as the first Editor-in-Chief of Law Raza Journal, an interactive on-line race and the law journal.
She earned a Juris Doctorate in January 2011, and has an expertise in Civil Rights Law. In 2015, The Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers chose her to receive "The Profiles in Courage Award."
She is a prolific writer with more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in publications such as the London School of Economics Review and the National Political Science Review. She has published four books addressing subjects ranging from black feminism to race, the Republic, the state of race relations and law enforcement.
The Human Computers at NASA project is a student/faculty collaborative project at Macalester College's American Studies Department that seeks to shed light on the buried stories of African American women with math and science degrees who began working at NACA (now NASA) in 1943.
Join the AAERG for this rare opportunity to meet the grand-daughter and researcher of the untold story of NASA’s Hidden Human Computers.
Sincerely,
AAERG Leadership Team
