Industry Talks: A Networking Night With Media Professionals

Join us for a new career development event, Industry Talks: A Networking Night with Media Professionals in television, publication, advertising, marketing, journalism, and radio. After a panel discussion, you will have the opportunity to meet each of our speakers face to face for insight into the media industry.

Seating is limited. Please register. CUNY students are welcomed to attend as well but must bring a CUNY ID and can RSVP here. 

Speakers:

Daniel Allen ’08
Supervising Producer, Business Insider Prime

Daniel helps global companies develop and execute impactful video content strategies. He cut his teeth producing news and arts-related documentaries for PBS. Now he puts teeth into projects for established brands, startups and publications. In his current role as supervising producer, he develops episodic content to grow the video audience for BI Prime – Business Insider’s subscription service. He is a graduate of Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College ’08.

Dylan Campbell ’18
Associate Producer for Digital and Emerging Media at WNYC

Dylan Campbell graduated from Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College in 2018 with a degree in journalism. She currently works as the Associate Producer for Digital and Emerging Media at WNYC, a newly created position at New York’s public radio station. She spends a lot of her day thinking about local news on new platforms like smart speakers and news curation apps. In the year after graduation, she also worked at WCBS and Everyday Health and has been published in local news publications like The Queens Daily Eagle and Gothamist.

Karan Chachlani ’18
Product partnerships analyst at ViacomCBS

Karan Chachlani is a product partnerships analyst at ViacomCBS, a global media conglomerate which includes MTV, CBS, Paramount, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Showtime, AwesomenessTV, and more. In his current role, Karan helps pitch and execute innovative technology products for advertising sponsorships. Karan graduated from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College (’18), with a major in economics and minors in computer science and media studies.

Stephanie Litsas ’11
Associate Planning Director at MediaCom

Stephanie Litsas ’11 is the Associate Planning Director at MediaCom. She is a native of Queens, NY, and graduated from Macaulay Honors at Hunter in 2011. She has worked in media planning for the last 8 years across categories including CPG, Pharma and Online Services. In her free time, Stephanie enjoys traveling and photography.

Annabel Lui
HR Business Partner at Oxford University Press

Annabel Lui is an HR Business Partner at Oxford University Press in New York.  Before coming to Oxford University Press, Annabel worked in the financial services industry working in Corporate Services and Real Estate, Operations and Human Resources.  She holds a BA from Binghamton University in Spanish and International Studies.  Annabel is an avid swimmer and lives with her husband in Long Island City.

Niko Pfund
Global Academic Publisher and President of Oxford University Press

Niko Pfund is the Global Academic Publisher and President of Oxford University Press, USA. He oversees the Press’s scholarly and research publishing across the humanities, social sciences, science, law, and medicine, across Oxford, New York, and Delhi. A distinguished publishing, scholarship, and media speaker as well as a member of several boards and advisory groups, Pfund was named a Notable Person of the Year by Publishers Weekly in 2012.