When in doubt, simply email the entire team via team@3brickdesign.com.  We’d love to hear from you!

Larissa Co - larissa@3brickdesign.com

Larissa is increasingly convinced that design needs to have soul. A graduate of the Stanford Product Design program, she chose to become a designer because she believes it helps her give people a sense of dignity and voice. Aside from working on cooking stoves for women in the developing world, Larissa is getting her master’s degree in education from Stanford’s Learning, Design, and Technology program where she creates tangible media for helping kindergartners understand the fundamental structures of our number system. Her perpetual fascination for unique projects has led her to work on a site where students get to be real scientists, a curriculum-sharing platform for beginning teachers, and a simulation-supported endovascular surgery curriculum for residents at the Stanford Medical School. She is also currently teaching a class entitled “Design for the Other 90: Needfinding for the Underserved”. Larissa’s main interest in choosing her projects is in creating a culture of dignity through design and someday measuring the impact of such a change.

At the same time,  Larissa is attracted to the cook stove project because she loves food, travel, and the combination of the two. Her vision of happiness includes cooking with and for others and eating lots of delicious food in the company of friends. She also likes to dance and talk deeply about big ideas.

You can find out more about Larissa at her personal website.

Jacqueline del Castillo - jacqueline@3brickdesign.com

Jacqueline del Castillo believes in the power of design thinking to unleash creativity, spur innovation, and ignite social change.  After spending four years of her college life studying business and organizational change, she reunited with design at the Stanford Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, where she became involved in this project.  In March of 2008, when she traveled to Myanmar to talk with Burmese families and to gain insight into their cooking habits, she realized that designing for social impact was something her heart could not live without.

Jacqueline’s life pursuit is to find innovative ways of working at the intersection of design, technology, business and social good and to create irresistibly cool products and services that improve humanity.  She is currently starting Unruled Design, a network of experienced professionals who apply design-thinking and business acumen to wicked-problem-solving.  She graduated from Stanford with a B.S. and an M.S. in Management Science & Engineering with concentrations in Financial Engineering and Strategy, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and spent a year at the d.school on various design thinking projects, including redesigning the morning radio show experience, fostering corporate innovation, and delving into the intricacies of interpersonal and personal team dynamics.  She has worked at Microsoft on the user experience design of Internet Explorer, on a marketing strategy for Firefox for the Mozilla Foundation, and on a global marketing project for one of the foremost artists in imaginary realism.

Jacqueline loves coffee in the mornings and chocolate in the evenings and enjoys traveling, web design, cartooning, cooking, latin music, laughing, and in sharing what brings meaning to others.

Jeremy Orlow - jeremy@3brickdesign.com

Jeremy Orlow has always loved designing and building “stuff.”  At an early age, he started making gifts for his family in his dad’s shop.  10 years later, he was building a ten foot tall trebuchet with friends.  Now, he’s excited to enter the world of welding and metal-working to design an affordable cook stove for the developing world.

Professionally, Jeremy started programming at the age of 12 and hasn’t stopped since.  During high school, he did IT work for a medical group and an independent study on collision detection.  He graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science with honors from Purdue University.  While at Purdue, he did research in software transactional memory and interned at Nokia, Microsoft, and a small security startup.  Jeremy now works at Google and recently joined the Chrome web browser team.  Prior to that, he was the tech lead of Autotest: open source software for testing the Linux kernel.

After moving to California, Jeremy became interested in projects for social good and designing for the bottom of the pyramid.  In 2008, he traveled to Mumbai to help a friend conduct user testing and need-finding in surrounding rural villages.  That experience, along with touring the slums of Mumbai, drove him to take an active role in improving the lives of the poor around the world.  Jeremy sees the cook stove project as a great way to apply his engineering skills to make a difference.

When not coding or working on the cook stove, Jeremy enjoys rock climbing, video/audio production, photography, and riding his motorcycle.