Reynolds Community College will host an “Around the World Through Film” event
on Friday, February 16, at 6 p.m. at the Downtown Campus, 700 East Jackson
Street, Room 250. This event is free and open to the public.
Ms. Julie Williams-Byrd, a member
of the celebrated Women@NASA group, will lead a pre and post movie discussion.
Light refreshments will be served, and door prizes awarded. Please bring canned
goods for the Central Virginia Food Bank.
Set in 1960s Virginia, the
film centers on three pioneering African American women whose calculations for
NASA were integral to several historic space missions. These women were
superlative mathematicians and engineers despite starting their careers in
segregation-era America and facing discrimination at home, at school, and at
work.
This “Around the World
through Film” event is sponsored by Reynolds’ Multicultural Enrichment Council
for the purpose of encouraging cultural diversity throughout the college’s
campuses and communities.
For more information please
contact Ewa Reedy at ereedy@ccwa.vccs.edu or Mazhar Anik at manik@reynolds.edu.
