Aisha Bowe
Aisha Bowe is a Bahamian-American aerospace engineer, founder, STEM advocate, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of CEO of STEMBoard, a technology company, and LINGO, an educational tech company featuring tutorials and online resources featuring NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace In 2020, STEMBoard landed on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately owned U.S. companies.
Bowe is the recipient of NASA Equal Employment Opportunity Medal, US Women's Chamber of Commerce Emerging Star Award and Virginia Business magazine’s Black Business Leaders Award.
On February 27, 2025, it was announced that Bowe would be part of the crew for Blue Origin's eleventh flight to space under the New Shepard program, along with Katy Perry, Amanda Nguyen, Kerianne Flynn and journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez. The launch is expected to take place on April 14, 2025.[1][2]
Quotes
edit- I failed early and I failed often. This is one of the secrets of success, Failure is the best mentor, because humans tend to move on if they do not fail, as if there is nothing more to explore.
- I graduated high school with a GPA of 2.3. I was not getting into a top university with this score and I was forced to rethink and reexamine my choices.
- I had to create my own ideas, and those were created by success as well as misfires. I am not afraid of change, rather embrace it. Change means growth.
- I feel that STEM is the great democratizer. I credit my engineering degree to my ability to embrace analytical thinking as a skill and apply it to problems and turn that into an enterprise that has made me who I am today.
- Things like that do not happen to those who are perfect, but rather to those who are persistent, confident, and move with purpose.
- Although my concept of balance in life might not align with what people perceive – as I think it varies according to the stage of life – nevertheless I believe it is very important for one to reinforce positive ideas each day, and this is what I do every morning for an hour early in the morning.
- So yes, inspiration goes both ways, and mentorship of girls and women really matters; it turns them into successful people.
- I know what it feels to be hungry, broke, or scared. I knew these feelings earlier on; I learned to build on my feelings to create a space of growth and success.
INTERVIEW: US astronaut Aisha Bowe shares thoughts on women in space, mental health and inspiration Ingy Deif, Friday 13 Oct 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
