Natasha Matta | HeadstartSTEM | NGN SpeakUp 2020 |
Channel: Next Generation Nations
Date: 2020-08-26

My name is Natasha Matta, and I am a rising high school junior from the San Francisco Bay Area. I believe that diversity will drive innovation in the STEM fields, so this summer, I co-founded headstartSTEM, a nonprofit organization that aims to increase transparency about careers and empower high school students from all backgrounds to pursue STEM by providing free resources and facilitating opportunities. I am especially interested in biomedical engineering, stem cell biology, food allergy immunology, and applications of cognitive neuroscience and psychology to law, and I hope to pursue biomedical research in the future.