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Miami Palmetto High School senior Ava Reshefsky is president of the business club, DECA.
She expects her future to be in business. She’s been laser focused on taking classes to help her achieve that goal.
Last year she took Principles of Entrepreneurship, and she won the Outstanding Junior Business Student Award. She also won that award her freshman year.
She has taken Business Management and Law and Business Ownership. She’s taking a new business course again this year.
Her interest isn’t just academic, she already has her own jewelry business called Jewels by Ava. She’s been making bracelets since she was 13.
“I like business and that’s what I want to major in in college,” she says. “Either Business Administration or Marketing,”
Eventually she wants to own a clothing fashion line.
“I plan on continuing my bracelet jewelry business in college,” she says. “I love making these bracelets.”
Her college list is primarily out-of-state schools. She’s considering applying to Tulane, Wisconsin, Indiana, the Kelly School of Business and the University of Michigan.
Along with being passionate about business, she’s also passionate about giving back to the community.
She supports Feeding South Florida, and their mission is to end food insecurity. She donated $3,000 to Feeding South Florida for her bat mitzvah project.
“I knew that was a good one because they helped my community,” she says.
After the Oct. 7 attack in Israel, she shifted her fundraising to help Friends of the IDF. Early this summer, she had already donated more than $6,000 to that cause.
“They look after the soldiers in Israel,” she says. “They do so much for the soldiers. After I heard about the attack Oct. 7. I knew I needed to do something to help.”
She sold gold and silver beaded bracelets and changed the beads to say “Israel.”
“I want people to show support on their wrists,” she says.
She began selling the bracelets a couple of days after Oct. 7.
“In five days, I raised $5,000,” she says. “It took me a little more time to raise the $6,000.
It kind of blew up on Instagram. I’ve sold to people in 25 different states including New York and New Jersey.”
She donated 100 percent of the profits of those bracelets to IDF.
Reshefsky tutors students in U.S. history and essay planning for UPchieve. The platform connects students around the country with tutors.
“I had time at home to do it,” she says. “I had to use it once for math. It’s free to use. I was looking out for how I could tutor. I could do it remotely.”
She also writes for Girls for Business, a national organization that helps girls to become interested in business.
She has a busy year planned for DECA on topics such as using social media for businesses.
“It reaches students to become leaders in areas such as finance, marketing, hospitality,” she says.
Reshefsky is vice president of Junior Achievement, the student-led company.
“We started Panther Threads,” she says. “We sold sweatpants. It’s something I love doing. I get to run the business collectively out of the class.”
She’s also the social media manager for the No Place for Hate Club.
Last April, she attended a summit for youth entrepreneurs through a program at the University of Miami called UVenture.
“I get to interact with likeminded people,” she says.
This summer she interned at the Discovery Lab camp at Pinecrest Gardens for five weeks through the Miami-Dade Youth Internship Program. Discovery Lab provided Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math education to elementary-aged children.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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