BIOGRAPHY

She was born the 9 april of 1921 in Hampton, Virginia and she died the 11 of february of 2005.

She grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she graduated from the all-black George P. Phenix Training School with highest honors. She studied maths in Hampton university.

She was an American aerospace mathematician and engineer, who worked for the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, which later became NASA.

She worked at the Langley Research Center for most of her life, starting as a calculist in the West Area Calculus Division, and later becoming NASA’s first black engineer.

After 34 years at NASA, Jackson achieved the highest possible position for engineers. she accepted a degradation to become director of two programs at the same time: Federal Women’s Program (in the Office of Equal Opportunity), and the affirmative Action Program. In these positions he worked to influence both the recruitment and promotion of women at NASA, in the field of science, engineering and mathematics.