Dominique Roberts
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Dominique is a graduate of Harvard Law School, New York University Tisch School of the Arts and holds a masters in history from Oxford University where she completed her dissertation on the role of women in the creation of the film industry. Dominique is a lawyer admitted to practice in England, Wales and California, and previously worked in the Corporate and International Arbitration teams of Sidley Austin’s London and Hong Kong offices. She recently spent time at the National Committee on U.S. - China Relations in NYC as a Harvard East Asian Legal Studies visiting scholar. Dominique is a founder of Code Your Chances, a non-profit with a mission to inspire a new generation of diverse leaders in computer science and to address the gender imbalance in STEM fields. Her film work has been featured in Women’s Way magazine and screened at festivals around the world.
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- MovieDrama
Margaret is a young woman working at MIT. Amid a time of great innovation in space travel, she's hard at work in the mathematics department, working in the emerging field of software engineering. She and her colleagues are working on the software for NASA, having worked her way up from her initial application for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Building her team from the ground up, she earns the respect of those she works with, though she's still mistaken for a secretary. But when NASA's Apollo 8 mission goes awry, it's up to her and her team's programming abilities to save the astronauts stranded in space.