Pava LaPere, a former student of Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson, was murdered in what police have called a 'random attack' in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE — While Pava LaPere built a successful tech startup that earned her national recognition and local political clout, she remained laser focused on what motivated her from the beginning: forging connections, building community and using entrepreneurship to create meaningful social change.
“She was so the antithesis of what happened to her,” her close friend Karina Mandell told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. “That polarity, that’s what makes it so shocking.” She gave a TEDx talk on the university’s campus in 2019, describing her journey into the startup world and her vision for the future. She said she scrapped plans to become a doctor after news coverage of a car bombing in Syria opened her eyes to human suffering on a global scale; she wanted to affect systemic change, especially among underserved communities.
She was scrappy and stubborn, qualities that propelled her to success in a competitive environment where a large number of people with smart ideas are competing for funding from a relatively small pool of investors, loved ones said.
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