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From hands-on client work to behind-the-scenes content shoots, Skye Tchegnon ’28 is turning her first internship into a launchpad for a career in social media marketing and analytics.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Sam Bookman will be a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Law School for the Fall 2025 semester and he was also selected to serve as a Haub Visiting Scholar. While at Pace Haub Law, he will teach Climate Change Law and Constitutional Law.

At 25, Soumyadip Chatterjee ’23 began his Pace journey. By 27, he was the youngest senior software engineer on a major project at Wells Fargo. Read his story to see how he turned challenges into motivation to go further.

Want to host an event during Pace’s sixth annual Social Justice Week? Apply by Friday, September 26. Read the article to learn more about the origins of Social Justice Week and how to get involved.

In Bloomberg Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Emily Gold Waldman cautioned that new federal guidance promoting religious expression in the workplace could foster coercive dynamics—particularly between supervisors and employees—and lacks adequate safeguards to prevent pressure or retaliation.

Pace University recently named Ajay Khorana, Ph.D., as the next Dean of the Lubin School of Business, effective September 1. Dean Khorana previously served as Global Treasurer for the U.S. Personal Banking and Global Wealth businesses at Citigroup.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Emily Gold Waldman speaks to Forbes about the legal gap around menopause in the workplace, noting that while no federal law mandates accommodations, agencies like the EEOC could issue guidance treating menopause-based bias as a form of sex or age discrimination.

In Bloomberg Law, Haub Law Professor Amelia Wilson, Director of the Immigration Justice Clinic, noted a surge in student interest in immigration law amid rapidly changing federal policy. For Fall 2025, the clinic received more applications than it could accommodate, following a fully enrolled Spring semester. Wilson added that many students have even offered to volunteer informally while awaiting a spot—reflecting a growing recognition that immigrant rights are central to broader civil and human rights work.

Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman appeared in The Fatal Attraction Murder, a limited series re-airing on Oxygen. In the episode—originally aired in 2022—Professor Gershman reflected on the 1989 murder of Betty Jeanne Solomon in Scarsdale, noting how the drawn-out investigation stirred anxiety in the Westchester community.