Moheeta Tamrakar

by Carol Gamm

Congratulations to Moheeta Tamrakar, Baruch’s newly-elected Graduate Student Assembly-Club Liaison for the 2011-2012 academic year. Moheeta is one of the many EOC students who contribute so much to the Baruch community, and I’m proud to be her mentor.

 

Like many other Baruch students, Moheeta does an amazing job of juggling a number of roles and responsibilities. Moheeta is a second-year MBA student, an intern for the digital marketing firm The Red Rooster Group, VP of Marketing for the Zicklin Women in Business, and VP of Marketing for the Zicklin Project Management Club. In addition, she has worked both as a graduate assistant at Baruch and as a research assistant at the Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information. However, Moheeta’s personal story, the story of her journey from her home in Kathmandu, Nepal to Idaho State University, to New York City and Baruch, is even more impressive.

When Moheeta decided to leave her family and come to the US to go to college, the family agreed on Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, because Pocatello seemed like a safe, small-town community. Although Pocatello offers a somewhat limited range of opportunities, Moheeta succeeded in making the most of them. She was elected to the business honor society Beta Gamma Sigma, worked as an intern for the College of Business PC Support office, served as Finance Chair for the 2008 Idaho Business Leader of the Year program, and was VP of Information and VP of Finance for Alpha Kappa Psi, the professional business fraternity. After graduating with a BBA in Computer Systems and Management, Moheeta worked for an international foods trade association in Wisconsin while deciding on her next professional move. Moheeta decided that her greatest career interests were in international business and digital marketing, so she applied to Baruch, traveled to New York (again on her own), and began the MBA program in 2010. I can only imagine the initiative and resourcefulness necessary for making this journey, and for making the most of every available opportunity.

Students like Moheeta make being an EOC mentor an exciting and rewarding experience. Moheeta may have received some internship help and career advice, but I received an even greater gift. This year, the world came to me.