 O’Reilly, who goes by Fig, is a member of NASA’s Datanaut program within the space agency’s Open Innovation program, and also works remotely out of Dublin as a director for Space Apps, which hosts a global innovation incubator hackathon each year in 225 locations around the world.NASA has a rich history of women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated who have made change.The movie Hidden Figures tells the story of three women of Alpha Kappa Alpha who charted the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit during the Space Race from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia during segregation.