Statistician and speaker Talithia Williams will be the featured speaker at Northwestern State University where she will discuss “Power in Numbers: Unveiling Hidden Figures,” as part of a meeting of the Louisiana/Mississippi section of the Mathematical Association of America, hosted by NSU’s Department of Mathematics. “Power in Numbers” uses the movie “Hidden Figures,” the story of African American women who served as NASA “human computers” in the 1960s, to illustrate that the demands of a 21st century STEM workforce will require looking past traditional talent pools to recruit and train individuals typically underrepresented in math. She will discuss her personal journey as a woman of color in statistics and share ways to excite public interest in data science.