Alumni Relations
NYU NSBE
“By leveraging the experience and knowledge of our alumni, we can provide valuable resources and opportunities to our members, helping them achieve their goals and succeed in their careers.” - Bree Choi (Alumni Relations Chair)
As NYU NSBE it is our goal to maintain contact between our NYU NSBE alumni and our current members. We have previously hosted various events geared towards the professional development of our members such as alumni panels where students have learned about our alumni’s experiences navigating the job search process and eventually successfully obtaining internships and full-time offers at corporations such as yours. As we embark on a new year, our aim is to further strengthen our bond with the alumni by building a direct and meaningful link between current students and the alumni through the following goals:
Alumni Mentorship Program:
This will be a formal mentorship program where each NSBE member is paired with an alumni mentor akin to a parent-child relationship. This program will provide opportunities for students to seek guidance, advice, and career support from experienced professionals who have graduated from NYU NSBE.
Alumni Speaker Series:
We hope to arrange regular speaker series featuring successful NSBE alumni who can share their professional journey, insights, and lessons learned. This will provide inspiration and valuable guidance to current members while facilitating a platform for networking and interaction.
By implementing such initiatives we hope to provide valuable resources, support, and guidance to students while allowing alumni to stay connected, give back to the community, and contribute to the success of NYU NSBE.
“The National Society of Black Engineers is a global community that has and will continue to push Black students/professionals and their skills and ideas to the forefront to help increase our presence in the tech industry, be positive role-models in the Black community and ultimately change technology as we know it today. Being Black in tech is often times very challenging, however it is also rewarding knowing that my presence and others just like me are breaking the glass ceiling that those just a few generations prior to us never had an opportunity to even remotely partake in. In conclusion, attending conferences can truly change the course of a student's life and should be supported by all means necessary.”
— Bethany Saunders, Class of 2022
“The contributions of NYU and NSBE to my professional development are immeasurable, and I’ll be forever grateful. The current (and future) engineers of NSBE deserve the same opportunity.
Let them be seen. Be their spotlight.”
— Cliff Paasewe, Class of 2022
“It is imperative to illustrate the extent of not only experiencing the NSBE National Conference, but with peers of mine of the same color. Not only did the experience establish a large, yet tight-knit network of young and successful Black professionals in STEM that was not present before the conference, it provided me first sought-after job directly out of college –working as a software engineer at Snap Inc. (formerly known as Snapchat Inc.) in my dream city of Los Angeles. Although I had already failed the interview process a few months prior to the conference, I passed a second-round new graduate program that I would not have discovered missing out on the conference.
Moral of the story: conference is more than a fun field trip sprinkled with occasional networking – it is a life-changing experience that can build a lifelong network of fellow black professionals and reveal career-defining opportunities many will never be graced to even hear about.”
— Addy Hebou, Class of 2022