About the Center for Career and Professional Development

The Center for Career and Professional Development is located on the second floor of Aloysia Hall in suite 207, right above the Registrar's Office. The Public Interest Law Center is located one floor above us. The Center maintains two computers dedicated for student use and provides access to a laser printer, telephone, fax machine, copier and scanner for job search needs. We are open Monday through Friday from 9:00am – 5:00pm. The Assistant Dean and counselors are available outside those hours by appointment.  We also host regular evening and lunchtime counseling drop-by tables outside the cafeteria twice a month during the academic year.

Rachel Littman, Esq.
Assistant Dean for Career and Professional Development & External Relations
(914) 422-4218
Dean Littman oversees the Center for Career Development, the Public Interest Law Center, and the Office of Marketing and Communications.  She counsels students and alumni and develops career and professional development related prgrams and resources.  Dean Littman taught Criminal Law/Legal Analysis and Writing to first year law students as an Adjunct Professor of Law here at Pace and coached high school girls’ field hockey and lacrosse.  She started her legal career in 1996 at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in Manhattan in their Capital Markets Group.  In 1998 she moved to the international law firm of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP to help start their New York office.  At Freshfields she continued her practice both in securities law and complex structured finance and securitization transactions.  Throughout her legal career Dean Littman has given in-house CLE lectures, trained associates, participated in her firm’s recruitment program, and worked on pro bono matters. Dean Littman received her BA in Art History from Yale University and her JD, cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law, and where she served as the Managing Editor of the Constitutional Law Journal.  She is admitted to practice in New York and is actively involved in various professional organizations.  Click here to read full bio.

Stephanie Golden, Esq.
Private Sector & Judicial Clerkships Advisor
(914) 422-4605
Stephanie received her BA in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Michigan and her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as a legal research & writing course teaching assistant.  Stephanie was previously a litigation associate with the law firms of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP, and a summer intern with the Center for Reproductive Rights.  Stephanie serves as the Chair of the Junior Advisory Board of inMotion, a New York City-based non-profit organization that provides low-income, under-served and abused women with free legal services; she is a 2003 recipient of inMotion’s Commitment to Justice Award.  Stephanie is a member of NALP and the New York City Bar Association. Stephanie provides counseling services regarding opportunities with all types of legal employers, and specialized programming and advice to students regarding internship opportunities with corporations, summer and permanent associate opportunities with law firms, and judicial internship and clerkship opportunities at the federal, state and local levels.  Stephanie coordinates the law school's ABCNY Fellowship interview and nomination process.

Jennifer C. Friedman, Esq.
Associate Director, Public Interest and Director of the Public Interest Law Center
(914) 422-4265
Jennifer is Pace Law School's first Director of the Public Interst Law Center, formed in 2008.  She oversees all funding for public interest summer internships  and manages the Pro Bono Justice Program.  She counsels students on public interest opportunities, including pos-graduate fellowships.  Prior to joining Pace Jennifer was the founder and Director of the Courtroom Advocates Project (CAP) a pioneering model legal services initiative at Sanctuary for Families that offers pro bono advocacy to domestic violence victims petitioning for orders of protection in New York City's Family Courts. Since Jennifer launched the program in 1997, CAP has recruited and trained over 6,200 law students from ten New York City-area law schools and summer associates from over 45 city law firms who have advocated for nearly 5,500 battered women. Jennifer is also a litigator, having supervised a staff of attorneys who represent domestic violence victims in order of protection, custody, visitation, support, and matrimonial cases and in appellate litigation. Jennifer is a 1993 graduate of Columbia College, and a 1998 graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Stone and Kent Scholar and an editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Jennifer was awarded the New York City Bar Association's Katherine McDonald Award for Service to the Family Courts. In 1998, Jennifer received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship and the New York State Bar Association's President's pro bono award. She is also the 2003 recipient of the Columbia Alumna Association's Alumna Achievement Award. 

Nicole Moncayo, Esq.
Director, Employer and External Relations
Strategic Professional Development Initiatives
(914) 422-4607
Nicole holds a BA in Political Science and Speech Communication from the Pennsylvania State University, and is a 2003 graduate of Pace Law School.  Nicole joined the Center for Career Development in June 2006 after working at a White Plains real estate and estates law firm. Nicole is responsible for developing and managing an employer recruitment plan, working with alumni and recruiting partners to provide career opportunities and programs for students, organizing our fall and spring recruitment programs and Winter Career Fair, overseeing the collection of the NALP Employment Survey, administering our online database management system and handling the human resources and financial functions of the CCPD.  Nicole is a member of NALP, the American Bar Association, and SafeZone a program dedicated to promoting a safe and inclusive campus environment for GLBT individuals.

Elyse Moskowitz, Esq.
Assistant Director, Counseling and Professional Development
(914) 422-4219
Elyse is the Assistant Director, for Counseling and Professional Development, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Law and teaches an upper level course entitled Topics in Legal Theory: The Second Circuit related to the ABA Media Alerts program. to upper level students. In the Center for Career Development, Elyse provides counseling to students and alumni on opportunities in the public and private sector and assists them in identifying internships and post-graduate positions in federal, state and local government, at private firms and in corporate settings. Elyse also creates and updates specialized career guides including Pace’s Guide to Legal Careers in Government, maintains their fellowship calendars, and coordinates career panels and programs including the Presidential Management Fellowship Program nomination process.  Elyse also writes frequently about career and professional development issues. Elyse received her JD, cum laude, from Fordham Law School, where she served as an Associate Editor of the Fordham Law Review. Elyse joined Pace Law School as an Adjunct Professor of Law in 2001 teaching Pre-Trial Civil Litigation Simulation and, later, Criminal Law and Legal Writing and Analysis. Prior to joining Pace, Elyse spent three years as a full-time faculty member at Suffolk Law School in Boston, Massachusetts where she taught Legal Practice Skills. Elyse started her legal career as a litigation associate at large law firms in New York and Boston.

Lisa Lancia
Director, International Strategic Initiatives and the Pace London Law Program
International Careers Advisor
(914) 422-4282
Lisa holds several international law related positions at the Law School including her affiliation with the Center for Career and Professional Development as an International Careers Advisor.  In this role, she counsels JD and LLM students and alumni on creating long-term strategies for successfully landing jobs and internships in the international arena. Prior to joining the Law School in 2003, Lisa held several positions within the United Nations as a legal and administrative officer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and in Zagreb, Croatia with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and in Geneva, Switzerland with the Compensation Commission (UNCC).  Prior to her roles with the UN, Lisa worked in legal publishing with the Thompson Publishing Group and with AIG on complex environmental claims. Lisa received her BA from the State University of New York at Albany magna cum laude and her JD from the Washington College of Law at American University. For Lisa’s full bio, please click here.

Andrea Putnam
Program Manager, Public Interest Law Center
(914) 422-4335
Andrea works with Jennifer Friedman in the Public Interest Law Center, managing projects like the PILSO fundraising auction, and counseling students.  Andrea received her BS from Boston University’s College of Communication and her JD from Emory Law School. Andrea was previously a Senior Assistant District Attorney in the Appeals Bureau of the King’s County District Attorney’s Office. Upon moving to Westchester County, NY, she worked at the Northern Westchester Shelter providing legal services for victims of domestic violence as the Director of the Domestic Violence Legal Project. While spending several years at home raising her children, Andrea volunteered as a Patient Advocate at Northern Westchester Hospital Center and did outreach work for the New York State Parent Education and Awareness Program.

Christopher Gentry
Recruitment Coordinator
(914) 422-4613
Christopher holds a BA from  Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.  As a recent graduate, he joined the Center for Career and Professional Development in 2011 after working for Citizens Financial Group. Christopher helps to develop and execute the Center's recruitment programs and Winter Career Fair, assists with employer relations, and performs the Center's administrative duties.  Christopher is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., where he serves as the historian for the chapter and a member of their scholarship committee.   He is also a 2007 recipient  of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Scholarship and the past president of the Morehouse College Honor Society.   Christopher has studied at various international institutions: Stellenbosch University, University of Costa Rica, and a former fellow at the University of Iowa Law School.