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On Monday, March 28, current law students and alumni from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University joined together for a networking event on the Haub Law Campus. The event offered students the opportunity to network with recent alumni and learn more about the various potential career avenues after graduating from law school. In attendance were 15 alumni who have successful careers in both the public and private sectors, along with approximately 50 law students. This event was part of the semester-long wellness initiative, “Haub Law’s Hub of Belonging: the 8 Pillars of Wellness.” Through a semester-long series of programming and campus initiatives focused on incorporating the eight pillars of wellness, law students will be offered a path towards optimal wellbeing during their time in law school and thereafter. Pace University’s Chief Wellness Officer awarded a grant to the Office of Student & Campus Affairs to support the success of this exciting and new initiative. This student and alumni networking event, coordinated by the Office of Student & Campus Affairs, the Center for Career and Professional Development (“CCPD”), and the Public Interest Law Students Organization (“PILSO”), fulfilled the occupational wellness pillar of the aforementioned initiative. Overall, the series of programming and campus initiatives have and will focus on the following areas of wellness: mental and emotional, social, intellectual, financial, spiritual, physical, occupational, and environmental. Each of these pillars of wellness will be addressed throughout the Spring 2022 semester, with the underlying overall commitment to help students find fulfillment across all facets of well-being and inclusion. The programming will also incorporate elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly when focusing on the mental and emotional pillar, as well as the social pillar.

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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.