This event is sponsored by the American Pakistan Foundation and NYU Pakistan Students Association

Please join us for a conversation about succeeding in today’s professional world. Participants will have an opportunity to listen to accomplished professionals and their lessons learned from their chosen career paths. 

This event is part of the APF Mentorship and Internship Initiative which provides opportunities for next generation leaders to learn from experienced professionals by matching mentors and internship hosts with mentees and interns across a variety of sectors throughout the United States. 

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Azra Raza

Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University; Author of The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

Panel Discussion

Sadaf Jaffer

Mayor, Montgomery Township, New Jersey; Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University

Kashif Riaz

Managing Director, Fixed Income Portfolio Management, BlackRock

Shamila N. Chaudhary

President, American Pakistan Foundation; Former White House National Security Council Director for Afghanistan & Pakistan

Event Partners

Soch: Columbia University Pakistan Symposium

Columbia University Organization of Pakistani Students

Columbia University SALSA: South Asian Law Students Association

College of Staten Island's South Asian Nations Association