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Jaya Balasubramaniam enjoyed showing visiting family from India around the States after her graduation from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. At the end of July she is looking forward to joining Bear Stearns in their financial management anyalyst program.
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Danielle Cavellero, our first-ever winner from Baruch College, had told us that our scholarship gave her the ability to reduce her work load and thus finish her MBA earlier than she had hoped. New degree in hand, she has been promoted to manager in the Enterprise Risk Services (Controls Assurance) group at Deloitte and Touche.
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Pamela Dow reports that after graduation she traveled with her family in Italy. At our last communication she had returned with her new husband to Boston where she continues her job search.
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Jasmine Fung, a recent MBA from the Windy City’s Graduate School of Business, will be returning to Barclays Capital in the sales & trading area in September, where she will assume a full-time associate position.
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Following her graduation from Columbia’s Graduate School of Business, and after a month traveling in Switzerland and Ethiopia, Jeannette Louh has begun settling into her first rotation in Quantitative Equity Research at ING Investment Management in New York City. Jeannette will get a chance to build on her prior finance experience in her next rotation in Fundamental Equity Research with ING.
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Sondra Martinez’s life after Fordham entails work as an energy consultant at Black & Veatch, providing transactional support to financial institutions, utilities, and energy/fuel companies. She is joining the FWA this year- - I know, I [Kristin McDonough] proposed her --and will be joining the Financial Backpack committee.
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Gloria Scott continues to work as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Because she worked full time at this position while attending Pace on a part time basis, Gloria still has some course work to complete, so we’ll be hearing from her again when her MBA is official.
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While our scholarship recipients have been busy earning their degrees, the FWA’s interaction with the awardees and the large B-school community on our partner campuses has been particularly productive this year. A twenty strong circle of FWA sisters greeted all of the scholarship winners with the exception of our Chicago colleague at a reception and dinner at the home of committee chair Kristin McDonough in November. In the subsequent months, several of the aspiring MBAs attended FWA events as our guests. For example, Sondra Martinez was delighted to join the Baruch mentees at the terrific breakfast at Goldman Sachs in February where she got to hear Suzanne Nora Johnston and talk to several of the panelists after the program. Jaya Balasubramaniam took in the Ace Greenberg event at Bear Stearns and, as we learned above, she will be joining them at the end of the month.
At our end, FWA members made a good showing at our partner campus’s events, including the Women in Business conferences at NYU and Columbia in February. Beyond running into former scholarship winners at the breakout sessions and cocktail receptions, we made connections that resulted in a few new members and a meeting with Columbia’s administration and former FWA president Jeanette Hobson to discuss ways in which the FWA could help Columbia better serve its 10-15 year out MBAs who are looking to re-tool. There was also a FWA presence at the awards ceremonies at Fordham, Pace, and SIPA.
Proof perfect that the Scholarship program serves as an effective pipeline to membership is the case of Fordham’s School of Business. Lindsay Starr, a scholarship winner from Fordham in 02-03 is a mentor in our high school program and recently joined the FWA Board. Marianna Franza, last year’s winner, is currently mentoring in the College Program at Baruch, while, as noted above Sondra Martinez is eager to start with the Financial Backpack once accepted as a member this fall. Allison Reid, who garnered our support in the mod 90’s is now also a mentor at Baruch.
The Scholarship Committee needs YOU. This year we are trying something different in that we are adding a special mentor for each of the young women at the six campuses we are partnering with in the fall. The duties are not onerous but important – to keep in virtual and face to face contact on a periodic basis during the final year of the student’s graduate work and during that pressured period of the job hunt. Preference will be given to interested FWA members who are alums of each of the schools. If interested please contact Kristin McDonough at kmcdonough@nypl.org.
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