Miami University President Gregory P. Crawford and the Center for Career Exploration and Success are proud to welcome Margot Lee Shetterly to campus as the 2025 Presidential Career and Leadership Series spring speaker. She will address the campus community on Tuesday, April 15 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Armstrong Student Center’s Harry T. Wilks Theater. 

Shetterly is best known for Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. The book reached number one on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list and received the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction. It was adapted into a film by the same name, which was nominated for three Oscars and captured the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture among its many accolades.

Shetterly is the founder of The Human Computer Project, which is dedicated to recovering the names and accomplishments of women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from the 1930s through the 1980s.

Registration is strongly encouraged for this April 15 keynote address. The first 200 Miami students who register will receive a free copy of Hidden Figures! The Hidden Figures book will be provided to students first. If there are extra or unclaimed copies available, they will be given to Alumni, Community Members, Faculty and Staff who register and attend the lecture on a first come first served basis.