Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) Real Estate Career Development Program & Informational Interview Series

Join ULI New York’s Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) via Zoom for a two-part virtual career development night and accompanying company coffee chat series. This program is designed for current undergrad and grad students (both female and male) interested in learning more about different areas of land use and real estate. If you are not a current student, but know someone who is, please send this along to them!

Part I – Virtual Career Development Night 11/11/2021: Through a series of three breakout sessions, students will have the opportunity to hear from panels of experienced female professionals from across the real estate industry, including development, alternative real estate strategies, and Finance/Capital Markets.

Panelists Include:

Development Panel:
Meg Brod, Senior Managing Director, Rockefeller Group
Susannah Shaw, Senior Project Manager, Boston Properties
Finance/Asset Management Panel:
Pamela Frederick, CFO, Battery Park City Authority
Ruth Ann Blankenheim, Vice President, PGIM
Alternative Real Estate Strategies:
Mallika Winsor, Director of Real Estate Strategy, Shake Shack
Lauren Green, Food Program Regional Design Lead, Google

Part II – One-on-One Company Informational Meetings: In the weeks following the event, volunteer companies have offered to host a select number of one-on-one meetings with students – formatted as informational interviews – to learn more about the company and respective sector. Students interested in participating in these interviews can provide their contact information the day of the event and a member of WLI will be in touch regarding steps to sign up. **Event participation and resume submission is required to be eligible to participate in the follow-up informational interviews.

Informational Interview Companies Include:

Boston Properties
BRP Companies
Building for the Arts
Keller Augusta
Lendlease
MACRO, a Savilis Company
PNC
RXR Realty
Silverstein
UBS
Vornado
Wells Fargo

*More companies to be announced!