Viktoriia Yevtushenko

Class of 2025

Currently Studying: BBA in Digital Marketing with a minor Business Analytics

Current Internship: Social Media and Marketing Intern at Douglas Elliman

Pronouns: She/Her

When Lubin School of Business student Viktoriia Yevtushenko started her search for a summer internship, she only had one requirement: a position that sounded interesting. Now, as a social media and marketing intern with Douglas Elliman, she can confidently say she found exactly what she was looking for. Her advice for other Lubin students? Take advantage of Pace University's resources.

How has the Lubin School of Business helped you prepare for your current internship?

The Lubin School of Business has offered me numerous opportunities. First and foremost, I learned the fundamentals of business, management, and economics through my courses at Lubin. In addition, I've been able to develop my resume and professional network and collaborate with my peers. Lubin has helpful staff and students who have supported me.

I've also been working with Career Services. I completed online international student training and met with a counselor for resume and interview guidance. I applied for internships via Handshake, which is how I landed my current summer internship with Douglas Elliman.

What attracted you to this internship?

As I was looking for an internship, I didn't have any specific field in mind, but my primary goal was to find a position that sounded interesting. Real estate is a fascinating industry with numerous prospects and opportunities for networking—you get to help your clients discover their dream house or property. Helping them locate the ideal house for their family inspires me to do it all over again. People who get bored in an office doing the same thing every day, I believe, will not find that to be a problem in real estate.

Describe what a typical day looks like as an intern at Douglas Elliman.

There are common tasks, but each day presents a unique set of opportunities—new people, new properties, and new challenges to overcome. Communication is an important aspect of this career. Attending social activities and meeting new people are part of the job since we need to keep in touch with possible sellers and buyers in the market. My job entails a lot of marketing, which includes developing our social media networks. Maintaining social media networks is a creative aspect of my internship since uniqueness and visual perspectives are vital. I focus on increasing engagement, page visits, and audience reach—it's intriguing to test various techniques and plans in order to attain better results. I also manage a huge database of our clients, which is always expanding.

My internship is in-person at an office near Central Park. Offices, in my opinion, play an important role in cooperation by establishing an environment conducive to collective invention, productivity, and well-being. Being in the office allows me to interact with a variety of people. When people work from home, their networks could greatly decrease to the people they only need to directly work with. As a group, ideas can be shared and developed more easily. It's also easier for me to speak with colleagues and bounce ideas off one another, which generates energy and a pleasant working environment that cannot be recreated remotely. Interning in an office environment also allows me to learn office politics, too.

What has been the highlight or most enjoyable aspect of your internship so far?

My internship provides the opportunity to learn. Market trends, new technologies, social media, and the unpredictable in every interaction means there is always something to learn. The most intriguing aspect of my work is that I get to attend real estate events and property views. Working in real estate gives me the opportunity to meet new and interesting people every day. A profession in real estate marketing is ideal for building new relationships with people from all spheres of life. Your network will expand over time, and the larger your network, the more options you will have to further your career.

Working in real estate gives me the opportunity to meet new and interesting people every day. A profession in real estate marketing is ideal for building new relationships with people from all spheres of life. Your network will expand over time, and the larger your network, the more options you will have to further your career.

How has this experience shaped or impacted your career goals?

In today's environment, having only a degree is no longer sufficient. As a result, internships have become a vital opportunity for candidates to differentiate themselves. I believe that networking is the most important tool for career advancement. The reservoir of information or ideas you accumulate over time impacts your work success. When networks are formed, it encourages the exchange of ideas in order to maintain long-term partnerships and mutual trust. Receiving ideas can aid you both at work and in the classroom, as well as instilling ideal habits that will benefit your career. So the more effectively you network, the more self-confidence you build over time.

How will this experience impact your next semester at Lubin?

I'll be taking several core business courses next semester, including Business Analytics, Marketing, and Professional Business Practice. I believe that my internship experience will better prepare me for these courses. This position allows me to gain real-world experience and expand my skills. I can apply what I've learned through an internship to my college experience. In addition, an internship exposes me to the problems of a work setting and having experience with these circumstances will be valuable in future interviews. I feel that if I make a mistake during my work, I will be able to learn how to fix it and, more importantly, move on from it.

Do you have any advice for other Lubin students who would like to pursue an internship in the future?

Networking is essential because it will help you develop and improve your skill set, stay on top of the latest trends in your industry, keep a pulse on the job market, and gain access to the resources that will benefit your career development. Don't dismiss the value of Handshake and the Career Services office. Utilize the resources that are accessible to you. It is also critical to remember that finding an internship requires effort. You should tailor your cover letter for each position to demonstrate your interest and professionalism. The importance of time management cannot be underestimated either. Organizing is essential for keeping track of work responsibilities, meeting deadlines, and demonstrating to your manager that you can monitor your obligations independently and do not require continual supervision.

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Professor Smita Narula has been selected to receive the 2022 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Each spring, the Faculty Development Committee selects a member of the tenured or tenure-track faculty or a visiting professor with a contract longer than one year in duration to receive the award . The Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes that outstanding pedagogy occurs in a variety of settings at the Law School—it can be found in courses of all sizes and types, in teachers with diverse styles, and across subject matters.

This year, the Faculty Development Committee received several nominations, and reviewed class recordings and student evaluations of professors. “All of the nominations were extremely impressive. We learned a lot from seeing how our colleagues taught their classes and how the students responded, especially during the unique times of Zoom/hybrid teaching,” said Emily Waldman, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development. “While there were so many wonderful comments about all of the nominees, the comments regarding Professor Narula really stood out. Students noted not only her subject matter expertise, but also the way that she managed to engage them and create a truly warm, nurturing classroom environment even while teaching remotely. Professor Narula’s intellect, energy, and compassion make her an excellent colleague and professor.”

When she learned that she had received this award, Professor Narula expressed her gratitude: “I feel so honored and moved by this recognition, especially as it comes from a community of incredible and inspiring educators that I feel lucky to be a part of. It is a privilege to teach the next generation of lawyers, scholars, and advocates at Haub Law, from whom I have learned a great deal.”

Professor Smita Narula is the Elisabeth Haub School of Law’s inaugural Haub Distinguished Chair of International Law and Co-Director of the law school’s Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies. Professor Narula teaches International Environmental Law, International Human Rights Law, Environmental Justice, Human Rights and the Environment, and Property. She is author of dozens of widely-cited publications on human rights, food systems, and the environment, and has helped formulate policy, legal, and community-led responses to a range of social justice and ecological issues worldwide.

In 2021, Professor Narula was inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Environmental Lawyers. Prior to joining Haub Law School, she was Distinguished Lecturer and Interim Director of the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. Prior to Hunter, Professor Narula was an Associate Professor of Clinical Law at NYU School of Law where she taught the International Human Rights Clinic and served as Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. In these capacities, she helped found and grow the law school’s human rights program—a top-ranked program for international law in the United States.

In 2008 she was appointed legal advisor to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and served in this capacity for the duration of the Rapporteur’s six-year mandate. From 1997 to 2003, Professor Narula served as India researcher and Senior Researcher for South Asia at Human Rights Watch, and in 2000, she co-founded the International Dalit Solidarity Network, a transnational advocacy network that helps advance the right to equality for 260 million people affected by caste-based discrimination worldwide. Professor Narula's most recent article, tentatively titled Confronting State Violence: Lessons from India’s Farmer Protests, is forthcoming in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.

Professor Narula graduated with honors from Harvard Law School where she was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Prior to law school, she earned a B.A. and M.A. with honors from Brown University and worked on HIV and public health issues at UNICEF and the United Nations Development Fund.

Max Schillinger

Class of 2025

Currently Studying: BBA in Business Management

Member Of: Soul Fighter: The club for fitness and self-defense through boxing (Vice President)

Pronouns: He/Him

Before enrolling at Pace University in the fall of 2021, Max Schillinger was already building a business. But thanks to the resources within the Lubin School of Business, he was ready to build his second business and start a new on-campus organization before even wrapping up his freshman year.

Why did you choose Pace University and the Lubin School of Business?

I chose Pace University because of the number of opportunities there are in New York to help grow the business I started years ago. I feel like Pace provides huge opportunities that not many schools offer, which translates into having everything within close proximity, having all resources in one place to aid all students’ goals, and building a formidable structure to help students succeed. Striking a balance between business, performing arts, and other areas of study can help me grow HDM Enterprises, a conglomerate that focuses on helping individuals within the entertainment world succeed.

How have clubs on campus helped enrich your student experience?

By starting Soul Fighter with my three friends, Shahab Gharib, Henry Richard, and Matthew Illovsky, we were able to create a community within Pace that focuses on giving students a full body workout, along with teaching them self-defense skills. Before even becoming an official club and with minimal promotion, we had over 90 students sign up for the club and have around 40 active members! Some students who signed up can’t attend because of their class schedules, so we hope to offer more classes next year! Being able to start a club in my first year has given me the opportunity to work on a team, attend laborious training sessions, and complete the necessary paperwork to make the club official at Pace. Going through the new student organization process allowed me to work hard to achieve something I wanted and has strengthened my team-building skills. Even greater, this experience has allowed me to prove that my team and I have something to give that benefits the Pace student body, which hopefully inspires others to work hard.

You spent the past five years developing a new social media app. What motivates you to work hard?

Kholab Effect started off as a passion project in 2018. Having a strong passion for creating content, I felt like there needed to be an easier way for content creators and social media influencers to be able to collaborate on videos, share talents, and help each other achieve goals. Soon after, the idea struck - What if there was one platform that allowed users to collaborate on videos, find others that share a similar vision, and help one another get their content out to the world? Fast forward one year and the app “Kholab Effect” was born. When the app first launched, there was amazing feedback, and it continued to grow from there. In its prime, the company was comprised of a development team, which was responsible for perfecting and upgrading code along with an entire management team. We also have a digital marketing director, a vice president, two talent managers responsible for social media influencers on the app, and a creative director who develops new ways to keep the app running and relevant. What fueled me the most while building Kholab Effect was the clear vision I had to share with the world. What made me work so hard was the community within the app that created an environment for people to collaborate with others.

"Pace is a place with numerous resources and a vast network to assist students in reaching their goals. Whether it be getting involved in a club, reaching out for help in a class, or starting an entirely new business, use all the resources you have while you have them."

You are also the business development manager for HDM Edits, specializing in post-production for content creators. How is the Lubin School of Business preparing you and shaping your experience in this role?

After moving to New York, I knew I was ready to step away from Kholab Effect and begin working on my new project, HDM Edits, a post-production agency that specializes in creating videos for content creators and New York-based companies. While it may seem like a video service to others, its true mission is to help freelance video editors find clients so they can focus on the creative aspect of the job. In the entertainment market, I’ve discovered that video editors have such great talent but they lack the business skills and relationships to find clients. Through HDM Edits, I hope to bridge the gap between the creative and business worlds for video editors. I bring in clients and long-term contracts for editors so they are able to focus on the creative aspect of the work. The Lubin School of Business has helped me by connecting me with professors that I can share my business plan with and receive necessary feedback. Additionally, classes such as Contemporary Business Practice and Business Management have shown me several business execution plans that I can integrate into my business model.

What has been your favorite opportunity at Pace?

Pace has given me the opportunity to accomplish a number of things while only being a freshman. Between running businesses and a club while being a student, I don’t think I would have been able to maintain the schedule I did these last two semesters at any other school.

Do you have any advice for other Lubin students?

I would recommend taking the initiative and exploring areas outside of your comfort zone because that is what college is all about. There are so many things that Lubin, Pace, and NYC offer, so really take advantage of every opportunity that is presented to you because if you don’t, someone else will.

What does #LubinLife mean to you?

What #LubinLife means to me is growing together: unity. There is no need to get intimidated by upperclassmen, professors, or faculty. Everyone is here to help one another thrive. One of my main skills I use in life (boxing, education, business, and social) is collaboration. Being able to work on a team or incorporate teamwork into any project while addressing any obstacle can be a huge contributor to success. #LubinLife is more of an environment that allows students to grow, thrive, and succeed.

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