Ava Rikkers

International Brand Management Co-op

Helping rebuild Toast's 2026 global brand strategy across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and turning employee stories into campaigns that reach 800,000+ visitors.

Travel Sales & Design Intern

Designed 20+ luxury trip proposals across 15 countries and set up PRIOR's first Salesforce reporting system for 1,200+ clients.

Knowledge Analytics Co-op

Studied 1,000+ client cases on generative AI trends for 50+ case teams around the world, and ran a weekly report tracking $500M+ in AI-related revenue for partners.

Marketing & Sales Intern

Compared 20+ global manufacturers for a $50M project and redesigned the template for $70M+ client proposals.

Retail Sales Associate

Looked after members at a premium gym and sold $25K+ in merchandise, beating my personal sales targets.

Maître d', Server Assistant & Barista

Ran the front of house for 250+ guests and trained 30+ new staff members.

Building now

Sage | Circle

An invite-only marketplace for secondhand designer clothing. Snap a few photos and the app identifies the piece, estimates what it's worth and gives it an environmental score. Then sell it or donate it to charity.

Built with Claude Code

Global Nutrition Data Map

How much do we know about what the world eats? This map scores 194 countries on 6 kinds of nutrition data, from diet surveys to grocery scanner data, with 709 linked sources. Click any country to see them.

kulterracollective.com

Kulterra Collective

Madison West High School

High school students here write letters with students in Cairo through Kulterra's pen pal program.

Nile International School

The partner school in Egypt. The program also includes students in Washington, D.C., with plans to expand to Bosnia.

Network science

Barabási Lab

Food data

GroceryDB

Forthcoming · Nature Health

AI, food policy & dietary guidance

Northeastern University

B.S. in International Business, with a concentration in Finance and a minor in Spanish. Dean's List.

John Cabot University

My first semester abroad, through Northeastern's N.U.in program. I earned the JCU Community Service Certificate.

International Burch University

University of Belgrade

The American University in Cairo

The last stop of Northeastern's Dialogue of Civilizations on peace building, global leadership and diplomacy, which took me through Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Egypt.

President

Supply Chain Management Club

I lead five branches (finance, marketing, consulting, operations and case competitions) and I'm launching a podcast, a blog and a new club website. Before this I was VP of Operations and VP of Marketing.

Ambassador

International Business Program

I run info sessions and panels for prospective students and mentor current ones.

Mentor

Women's Interdisciplinary Society of Entrepreneurship

I ran events for 100+ attendees with 20+ entrepreneur speakers and mentored a student in a cohort of 30 women.

Food access

Second Harvest / River Food Pantry

I cooked meals for families in need and helped with fundraising.

Clean water

Clean Lakes Alliance

I helped remove phosphorus from Madison's lakes to keep the water clean.

Community service

John Cabot University Community Service

I worked with local organizations to get meals to people who needed them.

The beach

Running

Slalom skiing

Piano

Journaling & reading

Par-3 golf

Architecture & perspective sketches

Languages