Inspiring STEM Pathways: Jessica Matthews

Jessica Matthews is the Founder and CEO of Uncharted Power, a renewable power startup company that harnesses energy from motion to create sustainable power systems for communities around the world. Jessica grew up in New York City as the child of Nigerian immigrants. Jessica is the named inventor on more than 10 patents and has been listed in Fortune magazine’s “Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs” and Inc. magazine’s “Top 30 under 30.”
Inspiring STEM Pathways, a Smithsonian's Lemelson Center project, presents first-hand accounts from interviews with living inventors who work in a variety of fields and organizations. The videos and learning materials are intended to encourage students to pursue STEM fields by seeing role models speaking about their interests and passions, challenges they encountered and how they overcame them, and how they draw on curiosity and resiliency in their daily work.
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