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Teen Vogue|December 2016

Janelle Monáe tells Yara Shahidi about her role as a trailblazing engineer in the historical drama Hidden Figures and the importance of girls in STEM.

Ariana Marsh
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It’s common knowledge that in 1962, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. What has been egregiously overlooked is the team of female African- American mathematicians who worked for NASA and played an integral role in making the milestone mission happen. A new biographical film, Hidden Figures—based on a book of the same name—details the incredible contributions of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe). Here, Janelle makes a case for more girls revolutionizing the world, one equation at a time. ARIANA MARSH 

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