The Stern & Tisch Entertainment Business Association is New York University's premier cross-school club for students interested in film, television, music, sports, and other media industries.

Instagram: @nyusteba

What we do

Founded in 1997, the Stern & Tisch Entertainment Business Association’s mission is to develop a diverse community of talented NYU students interested in the entertainment industry. STEBA provides a forum for student interactions with industry professionals, a platform for learning to navigate the industr(ies), the opportunity for students to gain the professional skills to succeed in entertainment, as well as the chance to connect with similarly-aligned peers. Through our professional panels, social events, and skills-development programs, STEBA offers a unique advantage to students pursuing careers in film, television, music, sports, games, publishing, talent, and more.

Students from all NYU undergraduate schools are welcome at STEBA! There is no formal membership process to join the club. Subscribe to our email newsletter at bit.ly/STEBlast to stay up to date on our programming.

Mentorship

The STEBA Mentorship Program matches qualified student peer mentors in the entertainment industry with young students to offer career advice, academic advancement, and social development. Your mentor won't be an uptight judge; they'll be a college student just like you! They'll help you fix your resume, share their contacts, give you career advice, and even kick back and get ice cream with you.

We look for new mentors and mentees at the beginning of each semester, so be sure to look out for updates in our email newsletter!

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Programming

Our events include professional programs featuring industry professionals, creatives, and recruiters from major entertainment companies; social programs to cultivate community; and skills-development workshops.

This Thursday in KMC 2-65 join us for a fun-filled night to test your knowledge of the Entertainment Industry in our first entertainment olympics including activities such as entertainment pictionary and trivia! Get a chance to win great prizes and f

The entertainment industries are nothing without their audiences, and tech plays an increasingly important role in connecting content with consumers. Wondering how new technology is being implemented in music and games? Join us for a panel featuring

Are you interested in learning more about the fashion world within the entertainment industry? Join our guests from TikTok, Meta, and PR Agency KMJR Studio Worldwide to hear their advice from celebrity influence to campaign strategy in the ever-chang

Join us for a private screening of the hit film "Return To Seoul" from Asian Film Awards, Best Director nominee Davy Chou, at the Angelika theatre on April 13th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are FREE and will be available on a FIRST COME first serve

Curious about the behind the scenes of organizing an NBA game or a music festival? Join us to hear key insights from professionals at Live Nation, the NBA, and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. From ticketing to social media, learn more a

Do you want to know how to work behind the camera with your favorite actors and directors? Join STEBA for a panel to dive into the world of assisting in film and TV productions. See you there at KMC 1-70 this Thursday at 6:30pm! #nyu #nyusteba #produ

Join STEBA for a conversation featuring NYU alumni and First Run participants who double as founders of their very own production companies. This discussion will marry creative producing with business, allowing you to jumpstart your own creative vent

Join us for Part 2 of our Making Predictions for the Entertainment Industry series! We’ve partnered with Stern’s Investment Analysis Group to break down the financials of WBD for a workshop where you will learn how to financially evaluate

STEBA has hosted professionals from a variety of industry players, including the following:

2022: STEBA’s 25th Anniversary

BREAKING DOWN THE INDUSTRY

Enjoy “Breaking Down the Industry,” STEBA’s newsletter designed to translate the latest entertainment business concepts and controversies using easy-to-understand terminology and plenty of context.

Featured

May 5, 2023

The Business of Advertising in the Television Industry: How NBCU's Peacock is Diversifying the Ad Experience in Newfront Pitch

May 5, 2023

For us, late Spring signals approaching deadlines and graduation, but in entertainment – it's upfront season!

May 5, 2023

Apr 28, 2023

Blocked Activision Acquisition Could Put the Brakes on Future Entertainment Industry Deals

Apr 28, 2023

On Wednesday, regulators dealt a potentially fatal blow to Microsoft’s hopes to acquire Activision Blizzard, the video game company behind Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and the Candy Crush Saga, to name a few. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked the deal, citing concerns about anticompetitiveness in the cloud gaming sector. Microsoft will have a chance to appeal.

Apr 28, 2023

Apr 21, 2023

Peacock Enters the Metaverse: Extending the Reality of Streaming into VR

Apr 21, 2023

As streaming takes the industry by storm, it almost feels as if you’re in a whole new world when your eyes are glued to your screen. Well now, you really could be. As media convergence within the industry is amplified by development in both content and strategy, a new player enters the arena. Streaming in the metaverse, a new collaborative endeavor between NBCUniversal’s Peacock and Meta’s VR division, introduces a fusion of entertainment experiences with unique value offerings that the industry has yet to see.

Apr 21, 2023

Contact

For info about weekly programming, subscribe to our email newsletter at bit.ly/STEBlast.

For more details, check out our social media pages (as seen below) or email us at steba@stern.nyu.edu.

Meet The Steboard

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Katya Knadjian

Co-President

School & Year: Tisch 2025

Major: Film & Television

Minor: Producing

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Succession, Presumed Innocent, Killing Eve, and How I Met Your Mother

Favorite Songs/Albums: Noah Kahan’s Album Stick Season (Forever)

Professional Experience: TV Talent Intern at Creative Artists Agency; Talent, Literary, and Production Intern at Entertainment 360; On-Set and Office Production Assistant on Star Trek: Picard and Your Honor

Sathvika Ganesan

Co-President

School & Year: Steindhart 2025

Major: Music Business

Minor: Business of Entertainment, Media, & Tech.

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Friends, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Favorite Songs/Albums: ine Line- Harry Styles; Hope Is A Heartache- Leon; Young Blood- Noah Kahan

Professional Experience: Island Records (UMG), Warner Music Group, Primary Wave, She Is The Music NYC Ambassador

Oliver Park

Treasurer and Summit Corporate Relations

School & Year: Stern/Tisch 2026

Major: Film & TV/Data Science & Entrepreneurship

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Favorite Songs/Albums: Never Be Another You by Lee Fields and The Expressions

Professional Experience: Ad Platforms and Operations Intern at NBCU

Josh Kenny

Summit Director

School & Year: Steindhart 2025

Major: Media, Culture, and Communication

Minor: BEMT and Journalism

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Devil Wears Prada, Call Me By Your Name

Favorite Songs/Albums: Folklore by Taylor Swift

Professional Experience: Intern at KMJR Studio Worldwide, LOEWE, Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton, The Chamber Group

Amaka Nwokocha

VP of Mentorship

School & Year: Steinhardt 2024

Major: Media, Culture and Communication

Minor: BEMT

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: The Banshees of Inisherin, The Favourite, Jackie Brown, Mad Max (1979)

Favorite Songs/Albums: The Fame by Lady Gaga, HEIS by Rema, Still Over It by Summer Walker

Professional Experience: Apple Music Artist Relations Intern, Tribeca Film Festival Programming Intern, The Tangent Agency Production Management Intern, Warner Bros. Discovery Campus Ambassador

Anushka Dhar

VP of Social Programming

School & Year: Stern/Tisch 2026

Major: Film & TV and Business

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: La La Land, Interstellar, The White Lotus

Favorite Songs/Albums: Reputation, Folklore, 1989, The Secret of Us

Professional Experience: The Gersh Agency, Disney+

Karen Han

VP of Marketing

School & Year: Stern/Tisch 2026

Major: Film & Television and Business

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Past Lives, Life is Beautiful, Prisoners, Friends, Modern Family, Severance

Favorite Songs/Albums: it's not me (it's u) by mazie, short n' sweet by sabrina carpenter, new woman (feat. rosalía) by lisa

Professional Experience: Katch Data, Gigantic Pictures

Ann Park

VP of Professional

School & Year: Tisch 2026

Major: Film & Television

Minor: BEMT

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Aftersun, Past Lives, Coco

Favorite Songs/Albums: Restless by BIBI

Professional Experience: Production Company Intern, NYU Commencement Portrait Assistant

Maxwell Gross

Director of Logistics

School & Year: SPS 2027

Major: Sports Management

Minor: Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Ted Lasso

Favorite Songs/Albums: Album: This One’s For You by Luke Combs

Professional Experience: Intern at JBR Luxury, Sports Marketing Intern at Sportfive, Digital Marketing Intern at Tribeca Film Center, and Executive Administrative Assistant for the Esports and Gaming Initiative at New York University, Distribution Marketing Intern at FOX

Harveen Jhamatt

Summit Sponsorship Chair

School & Year: Stern 2026

Major: Business (Concentrations: Marketing & Computing and Data Analytics)

Minor: BEMT

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Daisy Jones & the Six, 3 Idiots, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

Favorite Songs/Albums: AM-Arctic Monkeys

Professional Experience: Sony Music Entertainment (The Orchard)-Marketing Internship; Artist Manager; Nirwana Foods - Social Media Manager

Sneha Tripathy

Summit Marketing Director

School & Year: Stern 2027

Major: Marketing and Data Science

Minor: Psychology

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Shameless, Modern Family, Avatar the Last Airbender, Alice in Borderland

Favorite Songs/Albums: Un Verano Sin Ti - Bad Bunny, LONG.LIVE.A$AP - A$AP Rocky, Summer High - AP Dhillon

Professional Experience: Beats by Dre, FOX Corporation

Caroline Wang

Summit Director of Marketing and Marketing Coordinator

School & Year: Steinhardt 2027

Major: Media, Culture and Communication

Minor: BEMT, Integrated Design & Media

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Schitt’s Creek, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Favorite Songs/Albums: Big Ideas - Remi Wolf, The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens, Nurture - Porter Robinson

Professional Experience: UMG - °1824, TikTok, TOORLY

Sarah Zhou

Summit Corporate Relations Chair & Mentorship Coordinator

School & Year: Stern/Tisch 2026

Major: Finance, Data Science & Film/TV

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: The Bear, La La Land, Top Gun: Maverick, Formula 1: Drive to Survive

Favorite Songs/Albums: LLYLM by ROSALÍA, Nothern Attitude by Noah Kahan & Hozier

Professional Experience: SportsNet New York Accounting Intern, Bazaar Ventures Sports & Entertainment Private Equity Intern, CEO of Studio Rouge

Carter Yoon

Mentorship Coordinator

School & Year: CAS 2026

Major: Politics

Minor: BEMT, Creative Writing

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: How To Get Away With Murder, Game of Thrones

Professional Experience: A.N Publishing, BE Artists, Congressman Raul Ruiz

Hailey Rodee

Mentorship Coordinator

School & Year: Steinhardt 2025

Major: Media, Culture, and Communication

Minor: BEMT & Producing

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Pride & Prejudice, Emma, and The White Lotus

Favorite Songs/Albums: Actual Life (April 14-Dec 17 2020) - Fred Again

Professional Experience: Christian Dior, Warner Music Group - Atlantic Records, Rothy’s & Vogue, LoveShackFancy, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mathias Cerisola

Social Coordinator

School & Year: Tisch 2026

Major: Film and Television

Minor: Business Studies, Economics, BEMT

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Inglorious Basterds, Entourage, Match Point.

Favorite Songs/Albums: We're All Alone In This Together - Dave

Professional Experience: Previously a Development Intern at Thunder Road Films

Ava Waldman

Social Coordinator

School & Year: Tisch 2027

Major: Film and Television Production

Minor: BEMT

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: "When Harry Met Sally," and "Frances Ha"

Favorite Songs/Albums: "A Well Respected Man" by The Kinks; "Future Games" by Fleetwood Mac

Professional Experience: Development Intern at Likely Story; Management and Productions Intern at 1022m

Jamie Huang

Social Coordinator

School & Year: Steinhardt 2027

Major: Media, Culture, and Communication

Minor: Creative Writing

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Inception or anything MCU

Favorite Songs/Albums: “Free Now” by Gracie Abrams; Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey

Professional Experience: Video editor for CMP, Research Assistant for Rutgers University

Victor Zhou

Marketing Coordinator

School & Year: CAS 2025

Major: Economics

Minor: Business Studies

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Yi Yi by Edward Yang, Breaking Bad, Succession

Favorite Songs/Albums: Peach Pit, Anri, SchoolGirl ByeBye, David Tao

Professional Experience: Technology Investment Research Analyst at Cedar Holdings;
Portfolio Strategy Intern at Dantes Outlook
Wealth Management; Analyst at Guotai Junan Asset Management

Chazzel Ferbol

Marketing Coordinator

School & Year: Tisch 2027

Major: Film and Television Production

Minor: Producing and Business of Entertainment

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Corpse Bride, Angels of Death, Goof Troop, Black Panther

Favorite Songs/Albums: In the Night by The Weeknd; Let Me Know by Juice WRLD

Professional Experience: Secretary at NYU’s FOCUS; Social Outreach Coordinator at Viva La Animación; Brand Development Coordinator at NYU Opportunity Programs

Nicole Cheng

Marketing Coordinator

School & Year: Stern 2025

Major: Accounting

Minor: BEMT

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: La La Land, Cinema Paradiso, Aftersun, Succession, Nathan for You, Killing Eve

Favorite Songs/Albums: Any and all Lana Del Rey

Professional Experience: Tax Intern, A24 Theatrical Distro Intern

Diego Andaluz

Professional Coordinator

School & Year: Tisch 2026

Major: Film Production

Minor: Business of Entertainment

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Parasite, The Tree of Life, Mr Robot, Succession

Favorite Songs/Albums: Channel Orange, Currents

Professional Experience: Univision, Hollywood Creative Alliance, 1716 Digital, Deadline, Indiewire, Discussing Film, Freelance Entertainment Consultant

Emma Li

Professional Coordinator

School & Year: Tisch 2026

Major: Collaborative Arts

Minor: Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Get Out, Parasite, Fleabag

Favorite Songs/Albums: Ctrl by SZA, Blonde by Frank Ocean

Professional Experience: Video production internship, graphic design internship

Tristan So

Professional Coordinator

School & Year: Stern 2026

Major: Finance and Public Policy

Minor: BEMT

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Suits, The Boys, Parasite, Designated Survivor

Favorite Songs/Albums: CRUSHER by Jeremy Zucker

Professional Experience: Universal Music Group, Citizens

Abigail Ecarma

Professional Coordinator

School & Year: Steinhardt 2027

Major: Media, Culture, and Communication

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Sherlock, Key & Peele, The Office, Monkey Man, Godzilla Minus One, The Rings of Power

Favorite Songs/Albums: OK Computer by Radiohead, RUSH! by Måneskin, Never Enough by Daniel Caesar, Take Me To Your Leader by King Geedorah

Professional Experience: Intern at GMA Network (Family Feud Philippines, The Voice Kids Philippines, etc.)

NYU STEBA's Inaugural Entertainment Business Summit

Proudly presented by NBCUniversal

In an ever-changing entertainment landscape, content remains at the core of industry. Thus, our 2024 Summit's theme is "The Power of Content."

To take the next step in your entertainment career, join us to participate in a series of panel discussions, skills workshops, and networking opportunities.

When: Friday, April 5th, 9:00AM-4:00PM
Where: NYU Stern Kaufman Management Center
What: Check out nyustebasummit.com
How: Click here to register and purchase your ticket today!

This year’s Inaugural Summit is proudly sponsored by NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading media & entertainment companies. NBCU is home to leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, Bravo, USA Network, Peacock, Universal Studio Group, and more.