Shreya is a sophomore at Los Altos High School and the host of the podcast, All About Her, where she interviews women in STEM about their careers and experiences. Her talk discusses the disparities that are often covered up in the field and tells the stories of women in STEM around the world. Shreya’s inspiration was her own love for STEM and, more importantly, her confusion about the various different fields. She hopes to help others understand how to overcome similar obstacles while empowering women at the same time.

 

Zain is a senior at Los Altos High School. He has published several mobile apps and has started several businesses. He runs his own social media channels to document his entrepreneurial journey. He is a firm believer in the power of technology to solve problems and positively disrupt society which he plans to discuss in his talk. In his spare time, Zain enjoys playing rock and metal guitar as well as playing competitive badminton.

 

 

 

Sarah Su is a sophomore at Los Altos High School with a love for all things chemistry whether it’s mixing together ingredients or performing organic chemistry research.  As a high school researcher, she engages in organic chemistry research regarding antimicrobial resistance, anticancer therapy, molecular antiviral solutions, and applications of computational chemistry in small molecule inhibitors; her passion for medicine and research has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic where she’s been working on computational modeling of small molecule interactions with proteins indicated in the Sars-Cov-2 pathway for the purpose of finding a treatment. She hopes to be able to incite similar passion in others, as well as to increase education regarding the uses of computational chemistry for pressing medicinal issues.

Living While Black (in Los Altos)

Donna Young is a senior Executive with The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) who moved to California in 1978 and holds degrees from Stanford University and Berkeley.  While her son was an LAHS student, she was active in local fund-raising and Parent-Teacher Association activities.  Besides being a mom, one of her greatest personal achievements is training for and completing two marathons to raise $8,000 for the SF AIDS Foundation. She enjoys reading, playing the piano, outdoor activities, gardening, and is currently obsessed with Schitt’s Creek. 

 

 

 

Richard Field was 7 years old when he decided he wanted to be a safari guide. In spite of being raised and educated in Australia, this desire only grew stronger. As soon as he finished university he left to start his life in the wilds of Africa. Since then Richard has lived a remarkable life and become regarded as one of Africa’s finest safari guides – trusted, loved and respected by safari operators and clients alike.

But it hasn’t been smooth sailing. Early on it appeared his career would be over after being attacked by a lion. It was an experience took Richard many years to come to terms with - the more he tried to “put it behind him”, the heavier the emotional baggage became. Richard eventually embraced the experience as an integral part of his life and he began to share the story whenever he could. It has since transformed him as a human and allowed him to positively impact many others around the world.

 

Richard has a real passion for sharing his story with high school students. As they launch into their own lives Richard understands that they will face their own lions along the way. He hopes that the perspectives and understandings that he shares will help them utilize those ‘lions’ to become the humans that they wish to be. 

 

In this talk, LAHS teacher Seth Donnelly will share lessons he has learned from actively working in solidarity with the liberation movement in Haiti over the past 15 years and with liberation movements inside of the US over the past 30 years. He will discuss connections between these movements and highlight what young activists today can learn from them. Finally, he will make the case for how system change in the US is not only possible today, but an urgent necessity.