Diverse Minds Book Club

The Diverse Minds Book Club is a monthly community space to explore lived experiences across diversity dimensions—through storytelling, research, and reflection—while building empathy, awareness, and inclusive leadership.

This Diverse Minds Book Club is less about “finishing books” and more about expanding your way of thinking.
Each quarter, we’ll read one book that explores lived experiences across our community—neurodiversity, accessibility, LGBTQ+, women in tech, and more.

Come as you are, read what you can, and bring your perspective. The goal isn’t perfection—it’s awareness, empathy, and maybe a few moments of “oh… I hadn’t thought about it that way.”

This month's meeting will be October 14, 2026 at 9:00am PT. If you will be onsite at Summit, we will try to meet in person!

Our current book is Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. We'll be discussing Chapters 1-7.

The theme is: Breaking Barriers.

Some topics we will cover are:
-The Black community in Hampton, Virginia
-Segregation and Jim Crow laws
-The educational backgrounds of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson
-World War II labor shortages
-Creation of the West Area Computers
-Early careers at NACA (pre-NASA)