Maybe it's just my bubble, yet I would not consider her a "hidden" hero ...
She's a celebrity in the research areas of Human Computer Interaction and Augmented Humans. She's a Prof at MIT with an impressive research career.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=r81Ss1cAAAAJ&hl=en...
Yes, she's not as famous as a Mark Zuckerberg, yet for me definitely not a hidden hero.
I love Pattie's work, nice to see it mentioned on Hackernews. Looking forward to a Dagstuhl Seminar we hopefully will co-organize: https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=224...