Ava DeConcini
Hometown: Los Angeles
Major: Materials Science & Architecture BS, Sustainability MS
Three things I love to do at Stanford outside of class: Attending live music events with my friends (and most recently hosting my own KZSU show!), making anything in the PRL/makerspaces, and sneaking off to the beach when there are waves and the mountains when it snows :)
I could talk all day about: Ideas for public art, interesting places to live, finding the balance, engaging the youth..
I would love to connect with guests who work in fields related to: Medicine / healthcare (especially moms! & anyone else who took "the scenic route"), non-profits, philanthropy, design, education
Biosketch: The last time you saw her, it was the peaceful summer of '21 (..ignoring COVID ..and wildfires), when she was an incoming freshmen. 5 years later, having graduated from her Master's, she's bookending her Stanford experience the way it started: at Sierra Camp.
Here's what you missed:
After speaking with many of you, she came into college HumBio + pre-med. She joined Stanford Women in Medicine, a child psychology research lab, staffed the hotline for detention centers in SoCal, became a counselor at Camp Kaleidoscope (charity camp for kids whose parents have been affected by cancer), an avid member of Ski Team, joined a sorority (Think Theta!), studied abroad in Oaxaca, MX, attended sophomore college in Monterey + Big Sur (Zen Buddhism & Marine Biology), joined the BioDesign club and bioengineering lab, and made an immersive campus sculpture. She decided to explore the world outside medicine, worked for a sculptor, joined the ASSU and social activism movements on campus, dated a wonderful guy (who you may know!), started taking architecture & materials science classes, designed her own major in that, researched the semiconductor supply chain and pathways to circular construction, RA'd Storey House, did her capstone about materials for fire resilient homes (prayers to everyone affected by the LA fires <3), graduated (!), worked at a Hydrogen power startup in SF, broke up with her wonderful boyfriend (it happens), RA'd her very own Branner Hall, studied Sustainability with a focus on new-age recycling systems, and is now finishing her pre-med recs once and for all, with the plan of applying next cycle.
She wants to spend the upcoming gap years working with the elderly in clinical settings (she loves old people), and eventually wants to become a pediatrician and a mom. In her spare time, you can find her tirelessly ideating about ways to increase play & fun in the public. Starting with teaching you & your kids to water ski!!!
SEE YOU ON THE DOCK?!?!