Ava Brown Email & Phone Number

United States

Westport, Connecticut, United States

Incoming Summer 2025 Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates.

BLK Capital Management, Corp., is a 100% Black-owned and student-run non-profit that aims to promote the financial achievement of Black students through educational programming, hands-on experience, and professional mentorship for community members.

Stanford University

Organize all event logistics, such as venue, videography, theme, team creation, and licensing applications. Select and mentor 9 student and faculty speakers each year for TEDxStanford conference: edit speeches, adjust presentations, influence content. (website: https://tedxstanford.com/)

Stanford University

Hunt-seat rider for the Stanford Equestrian Team. Train with the team 10+ hours a week and help organize fundraisers and horse shows. Also in charge of organizing outreach activities with Stanford students and the surrounding community.

New York, New York, United States

Performed data analytics, client service, and market analysis for multi-billion dollar companies in biotech, large-cap pharma, and healthcare services as part of the Goldman Sachs Healthcare group under the Global Banking and Markets Division. Completed a summer project including full valuation modeling (LBO, DCF, Broker Benchmarking, Accretion / Dilution) for a hypothetical sell-side transaction and presented to senior bankers at the firm.

Write/edit test problems and actively involved in creating curriculum. Create solution videos for the YouTube channel. Teacher’s assistant for online courses. During contest season, help run major competition logistics on site (ex. Elementary Nationals in College Station, Texas).

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Organized and completed exploratory data analysis of insurance policy persistence data to build a predictive machine learning model for client using sklearn. Worked in R, Python, Excel, PowerBI.

Folsom, California, United States

Meet twice a week at my former elementary school (meeting via Zoom since 2020) to prepare 3rd-5th grade students for mathleague.org competitions. Worked with almost 150 students. Participated in mathleague.org’s 6-week Math Club Administrators Workshop in 2020. Created math workbooks of custom lesson plans and collaborated with mathleague.org to provide a free workbook for all 60 club members in 2020 and 2021.

Received highest score out of 60+ international students. Lectures from 8 college professors on topics like Game Theory and the Solow Growth Model. Comprehensive research project on switching national inflation index from CPI to PCE.

3 week summer program where I wrote papers on Too Big to Fail theory, Covid19 and Airlines, and the faux $100,000 international investment portfolio I made.

Stanford University

3 week, all-girls program at Stanford University on artificial intelligence where I programmed a Naive Bayes classifier in Python to organize tweets from Hurricane Katrina into categories like power and medical for disaster relief.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Data Science

Activities and Societies: Stanford Equestrian Team, Ideas Out Loud, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Frosh Service Liaison

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Tennis (Team Captain, 2 years), Academic Decathlon: Honors First Team, National Honor Society.