Hidden Computers: The Black Women of NASA
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KATIE BOFSHEVER

Design Partner, GV

As VP of Digital Media at GV, Katie Bofshever crafts innovative and creative solutions for the digital space, specializing in minority consumers.

2:00pm

Understand

Lightning Talks on Business Goals

Learn to understand and tackle problems from many different points of view. Discussions should highlight business goals, success metrics, technical capabilities and potential challenges, and relevant user research.

Hidden Computers: The Black Women of NASA

Join Baltimore Women in Tech and MAKERS@AOL to hear Duchess Harris, author of "Hidden Computers: The Black Women of NASA," discuss her grandmother and the other black women who made it possible for John Glenn to orbit Earth in 1962. 

 

Tickets - $25

Spark Baltimore | 8 Market St | Baltimore MD

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The Minimal NYC

Introducing The Minimal NYC. An app that connects you to people who are willing to trade lives. For real. Ever wonder what it’d be like to be a music teacher in Nashville? A children’s book illustrator in Brooklyn? A human rights activist in DC?


It’s a social network that facilitates real life swaps: you go to someone’s city, live in their home, hang with their friends and family, do their jobs, attend their events and activities. Yes, it’s totally intense… and it’s totally thrilling. Call us crazy, but we don’t think the best memories are made in the comfort zone.

 
Come check us out at the party (and sign up for The Minimal NYC account at one of our stations while you’re at it). Bottom line: it’s a startup launch. Good times will be had by all.

Our Guest Speaker

DUCHESS HARRIS


Professor Harris is the chair of the American Studies Department at Macalester College. The author and coauthor of four books (Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA and Black Lives Matter with Sue Bradford Edwards, Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity with Bruce Baum, and Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton/Obama), she has been an associate editor for Litigation News, the American Bar Association Section’s quarterly flagship publication, and was the first editor-in-chief of Law Raza Journal, an interactive online race and the law journal for William Mitchell College of Law.

 

She has earned a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and a Juris Doctorate from William Mitchell College of Law.

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The book provides new insights into the intersections between the Cold War, the Space Race, and the struggle for gender equality and the Civil Rights movement. The book is an account of the Hollywood film, Hidden Figures.

Summary of Book: Hidden Human Computers

Agenda

6:30pm

#womenwednesday

Mix & Mingle

Chat it up with fellow creative and tech professionals in the Baltimore area. Food and beverage are included in your ticket price.

7:00pm

LISTEN & LEARN

Talk: Duchess Harris

Join us to hear Duchess Harris, author of "Hidden Computers: The Black Women of NASA," discuss her grandmother and the other black women who made it possible for John Glenn to orbit Earth in 1962.

“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”

Louis Kahn

The Minimal NYC

Architect

Thank you to our awesome sponsors & partners!

A Portion of Ticket Sales Will Be Donated to Ladies That UX Baltimore

Ladies that UX Baltimore is local community of women in UX that come together monthly to promote and teach each other. LTUX Baltimore isn’t about showcasing our products, it’s about creating a safe environment for talented and intelligent women to encourage and inspire each other.

A Portion of the Ticket Sales Will Be Donated to Baltimore Women Techmakers

This is the local chapter of Google's Women Techmakers. This is a local community of women from diverse tech backgrounds (design, development, product management, tech hobbyist) who come together monthly to promote and teach each other. It’s about creating a safe environment for talented and intelligent women to encourage and inspire each other.

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Parking Information

Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

Spark Baltimore is located within the Power Plant Live plaza at 8 Market Place between Rams Head Live and Mosaic. There is street parking on Market Place, Gay St & Water St. 

Attendees can also use our Spark Parking Panda discount link for area garages.

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Join Baltimore Women in Tech and MAKERS@AOL to hear Duchess Harris, author of "Hidden Computers: The Black Women of NASA," discuss her grandmother and the other black women who made it possible for John Glenn to orbit Earth in 1962. 

 

Tickets - $25

Spark Baltimore | 8 Market St | Baltimore MD

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Hidden Computers: The Black Women of NASA

Join us for a startup launch party for The Minimal NYC, with good music, unlimited drinks, BBQ buffet, lots of free stuff, and strangers that might become the new you.

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