SENECA FALLS, N.Y. — This year, nine women were inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, which aims to honor and showcase great women from the past. For Katherine Moore and Joylette Hylick, daughters of the late Katherine Johnson, the induction allows them to honor and remember their mother.

“I think informing more people of the achievements of a lot more women that they obviously don’t know about is good, and particularly for young people, especially girls,” said Joylette Hylick, one of the representatives for Katherine Johnson.

Women are nominated by the public to be inducted into the hall, and this year Johnson is joined by eight other inductees such as Rebecca Halstead, the first woman in U.S. history to command in combat at the strategic level, former First Lady Michelle Obama and Octavia Butler, the renowned author who became the first Black women to receive a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship grant.

“It gives you a collection of…women with a lot of knowledge, a lot of achievements in one place,” Hylick said.

Johnson is remembered as one of America’s most inspirational figures for her work as a NASA mathematician, contributing to one of our nation’s first triumphs in human spaceflight.

“Mom would say ‘I don’t know what all the fuss is about anyways because I was just doing my work,’” Hylick said. “So this would be very, very special. She would realize it in what it would do for younger girls to see this.”

Her daughter’s hope is that this recognition of Johnson the other inductees will motivate future generations, and especially young women.

“So I say to young women, be strong in your faith and learn what it is that you should be learning and then say that my place is there just like anybody else,” said Hylick in representation of her mother.