Latest Impact Stories

Faculty

Gabriel Amor: Balancing Speed & Authenticity in PR will be the Next Gen’s Great Challenge

"It’s an energy you feel that can’t be replicated anywhere other than on this campus," says the SCOM lecturer.

Student

Peter Lichtenthal: How the E3B Program Inspired the Pursuit of Graduate Work in Conservation

"The classes ended up being extremely rewarding in helping me flesh out what I wanted to do."

Faculty

Strategic Communication’s Don Waisanen Helps Students Put Storytelling At the Center of Their Work

“Storytelling is at the center of everything that [students] have done and will do in their lives.”

Alumni

A Year After Graduation, Applied Analytics Alumna Jing Li Continues Tapping into Columbia’s Unmatched Network

Now at Google, Li says most of her career opportunities came through connections, many from Columbia's Applied Analytics program

Alumni

Sayantanee Das: Bringing Prison HIV Care Research to the Global Stage at the World Bioethics Conference

"The small class sizes and clear devotion from the professors fostered very meaningful connections."

Student

Raisa Ramalho: How the Pandemic Redefined Human Capital Management and the Importance of Thinking Strategically

How the pandemic redefined human capital management and the importance of thinking strategically, in the words of our student.

Alumni

Marianne Casgrain: Finding a Foothold for Pivoting a Career

"The program gave me the time to figure out what I wanted to do and the necessary skills to pivot my career."

Alumni

Tara Shahbazi: Finding Focus and a Business Foundation for a Career in Tech

“You’re not just doing an MBA or a law degree. You’re really differentiating yourself.”

Faculty

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Highlighting Strategic Communication’s Sonya Keshwani and Her Line of Head Wraps for Cancer Patients

"I decided that if the answer to my problem didn’t already exist, I would have to create it myself.”

Student

Jonathan Tsarouhis: Making the Most of COVID-19 Uncertainty with HyFlex Courses in Columbia’s Business Certificate Program

"My experience with HyFlex courses has been excellent."

Alumni

Sharon Feldman: Bioethics Alumna and Cleveland Clinic Fellow Seeks to Contribute to Australia’s Emerging Clinical Ethics Field

Now a Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic, Feldman recalls the most enriching features of Columbia's M.S. in Bioethics program.

Student

Adina Isenberg: Confronting Breast Cancer, COVID-19 and Making a Return to Columbia 16 Years After Starting

COVID-19 presented an opportunity for this Breast Cancer survivor to return to the Strategic Communication program online.