(By Shakira Hobbs, research associate in UVA’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) Early January 2017, I and two other Black women engineers were interviewed and discussed the movie ‘Hidden Figures’ and lingering challenges for women of color in engineering. Mixed in our excitement of finding more “like us” was melancholy. We were thrilled to connect with other Black women engineers; however, it was sad to hear that some of the same racial and gender inequities the Black women working at NASA confronted in the 1960s, we were facing as well close to half a century later.