Essay On Annie Easley

In celebration of black history month I would like to recognize Annie Easley who is a mathematician and computer scientist who helped develop power technology analysis software for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Her parents Mary Melvina Hoover and Samuel Bird Easley didn’t have any other child outside of Annie making her an only child between them. Ms. Easley was born April 23, 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama, where she completed grade school and high school. Fifth grade through high school, she attended a parochial school , and had planned to study nursing that was because her mother instilled that into her, but during high school became interested in learning to be a pharmacist. Annie then became the valedictorian of her graduating class at Holy Family High School. After high school she went to New Orleans, Louisiana, to Xavier University, then an African-American Roman Catholic University, where she majored in pharmacy for about two years. Annie got married and then moved to Cleveland, where she had all intentions of going on into the School of Pharmacy. However once she moved there they had shut down their …show more content…
Easley was very dedicated in her outreach efforts at NASA. She not only participated in school tutoring programs but was a very active participant in the speaker’s bureau, informing the students about NASA’s work and inspiring especially female and minority students to consider science, technology, and mathematics (STEM) careers. Later in her career, she took on the additional role of equal employment opportunity (EEO) counselor. In this role she helped supervisors address issues of gender, race, and age in discrimination complaints at the lowest level and in the most cooperative way possible. Annie helped pave the way for women’s rights at the