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Founder and CEO, STEMBoard, Arlington
Virginia Business// January 30, 2023//
The daughter of a Bahamian immigrant who worked as a taxi driver in Michigan, Bowe was told by a high school counselor to become a cosmetologist. She decided instead to listen to her father’s advice and took a math class at a local community college. Somewhat to her surprise, she excelled and earned degrees in aerospace engineering and space systems engineering from the University of Michigan. Bowe worked at NASA as a rocket scientist, and in 2013, she founded Arlington-based STEMBoard, which offers advisory services to federal agencies including the U.S. Special Operations Command and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
In 2020, STEMBoard landed on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately owned U.S. companies, and last year, Bowe launched Lingo, a self-paced coding kit with tutorials and online resources featuring NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace Jr. “I have the opportunity to travel around the world and inspire people to live their best selves and design things that make the world a better place,” Bowe says. “We want other people to have that opportunity.”
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