Julia Silverman
Chief Social Officer
Uncharted Play
New York, NY USA
“There's all this space between nothing and something, and you just need to do anything in between. It only has to be good enough.”
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By Roadtrip NationJulia Silverman
Milestones
My road in life has been direct.
Was studying social anthropology at Harvard University.
Met her co-founder Jessica Matthews in an undergrad art / engineering class.
They collaborated on a group project that became Uncharted Play.
They created a soccer ball that harnesses kinetic energy and converts it into power.
Can power lights for children in third-world countries who don't have access to electricity, hoping to expand to small refrigerators for safer food storage.
Harvard gave them a small grant to continue their work, build models, test them in South Africa.
Both women were accepted to Harvard Business School but have deferred to keep working on this project.
Advises students to pick intellectual pursuits based on what interests them, not based on what their parents or society thinks they should study.
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Chief Social Officer
I co-invented the "Soccket" and coordinate financial, operational, legal, and staffing strategies for the company.
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Getting in Touch with Childhood Dreams
The team lands at the doorstep of the MIT Media Lab, where they speak with a graduate assistant in the robotics department. Next, they talk with two women who founded sOccket, a soccer ball that generates electricity, and the co-founder of Bamboo Bike Studio. The Roadtrippers also stop at the USA Shaolin Temple in New York City, where they meet founder Shi Yan Ming who is known for his super-human abilities-such as breaking rocks with his skull. They end the week with Nat Paynter, director of water programs at Charity Water.
