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On Wednesday, March 30, Haub Law presented its inaugural Pace Access to Justice (A2J) Workshop with a spotlight on housing access. The Workshop brought together community leaders, legal services lawyers, advocates, and law school faculty, staff, and students to engage in dialogue centering on the critical importance of housing access, the current housing crisis, the status of “right to counsel” in eviction cases, and public service careers in housing law and related fields. The Workshop was hosted by Haub Law Professor Elyse Diamond, Director of the Public Interest Law Center and moderated by both Professor Diamond and Jason Mays, Director of Litigation at the Hudson Valley Justice Center. Panelists included: Andrew Scherer, Policy Director, Impact Center for Public Interest Law & Visiting Associate Professor, New York Law School, Marika Dias, Managing Director, Safety Net Project, Urban Justice Center, Marcie Kobak, Director of Litigation, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, and Marilyn Martinez, a tenant panelist who shared her long (and ultimately successful) journey navigating Westchester’s complex housing court proceedings with critical help from her Legal Services of the Hudson Valley attorney team.

This workshop is part of the larger initiative launched by Haub Law, the Pace Access to Justice Project. Pace A2J, housed and coordinated within Haub Law’s existing Public Interest Law Center, is serving as a hub for community collaborations, programs, scholarship, policy initiatives, and hands-on innovative academic and non-credit bearing experiential law student and alumni opportunities. Together, Pace A2J is designed to more actively engage students in learning about and contributing to real-world efforts to address the access to justice gap. This engagement will happen through the Access to Justice Seminar and the complementary Access to Justice Lab. Professor Elyse Diamond coordinates Pace A2J, designing and teaching both the Lab and Seminar.

Professor Diamond noted, “I am incredibly excited to have hosted our Inaugural Pace A2J workshop, and am so grateful for our generous panelists and contributors who educated attendees about housing access gaps, advocacy and representation in our local and broader community. This program also provided a forum to bring the community together to discuss innovative ways the law school and its students and community partners are and can continue contributing to efforts to address the gaps in housing access in our area. Our students and Haub Law community were moved by the panelist’s words and experiences. We look forward to many more opportunities for engagement, learning, and problem solving.”

Andrew Tsentner

Senior Digital Analyst, Nagarro

Class of 2022
MS in Marketing Analytics

Member Of: TEAM Pace, Lubin Graduate Marketing Society (LGMS), FutureNOW alumnus, T. Howard Foundation, Valrhona Selection, Fuel Cycle, Beta Gamma Sigma

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

During my search for graduate degree programs, I had one specific thing in mind with respect to what I wanted to study, and that was to understand people better. With this in mind, the Marketing Analytics program offered at the Lubin School of Business stood out to me above others. At the heart of marketing is the desire to understand individual behavior, and I believe that the best way to take that a step further is to analyze data that can help to serve others. I have found that the Marketing Analytics program at Pace is second to none in giving me the data analytics skills I need.

How has Pace better prepared you for your professional career?

They often say that college does not prepare you to work in the real world, but I have found that Pace has given me an enormous confidence boost as I advance my career. The Career Center at Pace has been one of my priceless resources in improving my interviewing skills and revising my resume and cover letter. Not only that, but at every interview, I have easily been able to attest to the skills and industry knowledge I have gained through Lubin's coursework. I have Pace University to thank for giving me the opportunity to be part of wonderful clubs and for providing me with the skills I need for my internship with Valrhona and now Fuel Cycle.

You recently joined Fuel Cycle as a part of their Research and Insights team. Tell us about that experience.

Being an intern for Fuel Cycle means you work with some of the biggest clients across many industries, such as Target, Google, Paramount, and many others. Much of the work comes down to forming a research outline based on a client's question, drafting the proper study to collect data, then analyzing the results to create a story for the client's query. I have found that I am excelling in my position because of the various analysis skills I have gained from my marketing analytics coursework. Apart from the technical aspect of my work, Fuel Cycle prides itself on comradery, and you find this across its many teams. It is an amazing feeling knowing that I can apply my knowledge in a professional setting.

I have found that I am excelling in my position because of the various analysis skills I have gained from my marketing analytics coursework. It is an amazing feeling knowing that I can apply my knowledge in a professional setting.

Do you have any advice for other Lubin students looking to get involved on campus?

The best advice I can give is to take advantage of every resource that Lubin and Pace University has to offer. Every week, Lubin reaches out with countless events happening across Pace that give you the opportunity to get more involved, such as club fairs, career fairs, and employer spotlights. Reaching out to others is always the bulk of the difficulty, so be sure to try out anything you hear about. When a professor brings up career opportunities, take advantage of them because they have brought me success and can do the same for anyone else. But if that is not possible, take advantage of the student base as well. Lubin is full of some of the friendliest and most talented people I have ever come across. They are always willing to lend a hand personally, professionally, and academically.

What does #LubinLife mean to you?

#LubinLife, to me, is all about supporting one another. Across the entire school, students, professors, and advisors offer to help in their own unique way. There is a shared understanding across Lubin that everyone is pushing themselves to fulfill their goals, and so everyone is more than willing to lend a hand to ensure one another's success.

Multiplying Good, formerly known as the Jefferson Award Foundation, advocates for how the service to others is effective in bringing out the “greatness that lies within us all.” Pace University is proud to partner as a Champion organization to engage in helpful public service and improve and celebrate communities.

Each year Multiplying Good selects winners for their Jefferson Awards for Public Service. This award represents America’s changemakers and recognizes people for their devotion to assisting their communities through public and volunteer service. These “unsung heroes” are dedicated to improving quality of life for others.

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Pace Bronze Medal Award Winners of 2021–2022, Elizabeth Colon-Fitzgerald, director of clinical assignment, recruitment, and retention for CHP and adjunct professor of Psychology, and Grainne McGinley ’22, CHP senior nursing student, are shining examples of the Pace Community. As a result of their selfless volunteer commitments throughout the years, Elizabeth and Grainne were excellent choices for this award.

Of her many accomplishments, Elizabeth is a staunch advocate for learning and educational achievement. Her research focuses on educational equity for historically disadvantaged populations in predominantly white institutions of higher education and evaluative study of program efficiency. Working with community partners, she has developed programs for academic access and support with a particular focus on rigorous major fields.

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Grainne is a dedicated student and involved member of her community. She has volunteered at Pearl River Volunteer Ambulance Corps (as a medical assistant), served as judge in the Orangetown Youth Court program, and was a site leader for Pace Makes a Difference Day. As a member of Gamma Sigma Sigma National Service Sorority, Inc., she worked with Lifting up Westchester, Ronald McDonald house, and American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) of Westchester. One of Grainne’s goals is educating and advocating for cardiovascular health and worked with the Student Government Association to supply 11 new AED’s (Automatic External Defibrillators) around campus. Grainne is currently working on obtaining her CPR instructor license to deliver CPR education and training to members of the local community, providing them with the knowledge to assist during cardiac emergencies.