Margot Lee Shetterly is a nonfiction writer. Her debut Hidden Figures was published in 2016 and spent over fifteen weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It was adapted into an Academy Award winning major motion picture of the same name. Margot is also the founder of the Human Computer Project, an endeavour that is recovering the names and accomplishments of all of the women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists and engineers at the NACA and NASA from the 1930s through the 1980s.