The Cherokee Mathematician Who Helped Design America’s Space Age – While Much Of Her Work Remained Secret
She gave talks at schools and universities.
She attended events specifically aimed at encouraging Native youth in STEM fields.
She funded scholarships.
She lent her name and her time and her presence to programs designed to open doors for students who faced the same barriers she had faced, in an environment that was still, decades after her career, failing to include Native people in the technical fields that shaped so much of American economic and scientific life.
She was direct about it.
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