by Kate Fink | Jan 19, 2026 | Alumni, Events
Ad Age is hosting a free Gen Z Career Forum March 3 in NYC to help students learn what roles are growing, how careers in advertising and marketing work today, and how to build momentum early in a rapidly changing industry.
This in-person forum brings together marketing students, early career professionals and industry leaders for guided conversations about navigating career choices across advertising, marketing and media. Attendees will hear directly from professionals and recruiters about how roles are evolving, what skills matter most early on and how others have adapted their paths as the industry shifts.
As part of this initiative, the magazine is also extending a student subscription offer to Ad Age, giving students access to industry reporting, analysis and career resources.
Space is limited, so register soon.
Thanks to Pace MCVA alumna Sabrina Sanchez ’20 for this information!
by Kate Fink | Jan 19, 2026 | Events
Soon-to-be graduates and alumni: Report for America opens a new application period this week. RFA places journalists in newsrooms around the country to cover underreported topics. Attend an online information session January 21, January 28 or February 4 to learn more.
by Heather Hayes | Jan 12, 2026 | Events
Join us on Zoom on Wednesday, January 21, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. EST, for our first MCVA Mixer. This event is for our alumni to reconnect with faculty and each other and to celebrate MCVA professor Maria Luskay, who is retiring after 30 years of service at Pace University.
This event is different than Connections in Communications. More information about our annual networking event coming this spring.
Register to attend here.
by Heather Hayes | Dec 8, 2025 | Alumni, Events, Students
On Thursday, December 11, at 4:30 p.m., Christina Rae, MCVA alum and president and founder of Buzz Creators, a top boutique PR and marketing firm in Westchester County, will join the Intro to Public Relations class via Zoom for a Q&A moderated by MCVA professor Heather Hayes. Then, current Buzz Creators interns, public relations majors Emma Dolan and Danielle Brendline, will share their experiences at the firm and answer students’ questions, as the spring 2026 public relations and social media internship applications are now open for Buzz Creators.
Rae was recently featured in The Westfair Business Journal article, “Creating a ‘Buzz’ about her clients.” Read it here.
If you are a current student but not in the class and would like to join the Zoom Q&A, please email Heather Hayes at hhayes@pace.edu.
About Christina Rae & Buzz Creators:
With more than two and a half decades of experience in marketing and communications, Christina is a seasoned and well-respected advisor to her clients. Her expertise includes public relations, reputation management, brand building, thought leadership and audience engagement. She has managed communications programs within a variety of industries including healthcare, food & beverage, hospitality & travel, professional services, real estate, financial services and technology.
In addition to winning countless awards for clients over the years, Buzz Creators itself was named “Best Advertising Agency” and “Best Social Media Agency” in 2022 by 914INC magazine. Christina was named a “Top CEO & Business Leader” by Westchester Magazine in 2024; a “Notable Leader in Advertising, Marketing and PR” by Crain’s New York Business in 2023; and one of “Westchester County’s Most Accomplished Women Entrepreneurs” by Westchester Magazine in 2011. She was also selected by The Business Council of Westchester as a winner of “Rising Stars – Westchester’s Forty Under Forty” in 2010, and by Westchester Spotlight magazine as one of “Westchester’s Rising Business Stars Under 30” in 2001.
Buzz Creators, Inc. is a top boutique PR and marketing firm in Westchester County, NY that services the metro NY area and beyond. We believe that every business has its own unique and special story. Our commitment is to help clients tell theirs. Buzz Creators can assist you with developing strategic PR campaigns, media relations, social media, writing and editing, grand openings and special events, thought leadership, advertising, branding, graphic design, and more. The Buzz Creators team has helped develop strategic communications programs for many well-respected national and global organizations, such as HEINEKEN USA, Barnes & Noble, Drybar, MasterCard Worldwide, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, American Heart Association, and many more. The Buzz Creators team also leverages its PR, social media, and marketing expertise to help many regional small businesses and nonprofits increase their visibility.
Photo credit: Margaret Fox
by Heather Hayes | Nov 24, 2025 | Events
On Thursday, November 20, the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department and Veterans Services hosted “The Presence of Absence: Life After Loss in the Aftermath of War — Artist Talk & Book Signing with Prof. Inbal Abergil.”
Clinical associate professor Lou Guarneri produced the event’s livestream. Watch the video here.
About “The Presence of Absence”:
“The Presence of Absence” is a decade-long documentary body of work that reveals the many layers of trauma, loss, grief, mourning, and healing, in the aftermath of war.
Inbal Abergil weaves stories of the Gold Star Families whose relatives were killed in action, together with still lifes of the loved one’s personal effects, and portraits of the Casualty Notification Officers who deliver the horrific news to the families of loved ones killed in military service. The still lifes reveal the survivors’s methods of coping with death, and how an object can contain the presence of a loved one, reminding us how painful and comforting it can be at the same time. The portraits urge us to look at what no family member wants to meet at their front door, and yet the notifiers knock on the door, knowing that everyone involved will be scarred for life; each time, they hope to remember their script and make no mistakes so that healing will be possible.
While every loss is unique, the Four-channel video brings our attention to four Gold Star Mothers who lost their sons and discuss how to continue living after the war. They offer guidelines for dealing with loss and how to approach others who might be struggling with grief. The photographs, personal stories, and videos in “The Presence of Absence” invite us to reflect on the poignant story of a community of survivors who keep the memories alive as they strive to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of loss, and invite us to create a platform for reflection and discussion of the human price of conflict.
by Heather Hayes | Nov 17, 2025 | Events
Join us on Wednesday, November 19, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in the MCVA Choate House Art Gallery for the opening reception of “Painting in Motion,” an exhibition of student-produced images from UNV 101A6: First-Year Seminar: Hudson Valley Arts and Culture, taught by Alysa Hantgan. This exhibit, inspired by “Shen Wei: STILL/MOVING,” is produced in conjunction with Kate Marohn and the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department.
Gallery hours: MWF, 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.; TR, 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
For information, contact Kate Marohn at kmarohn@pace.edu.
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