A string of alumni who worked as assistants for the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program and/or who interned at The New York Review of Books are launching careers in the publishing industry.
Baruch alumna Ashley Candelario, a former NYRB intern, recently got a job at HarperOne Group (HarperCollins Español, HarperVia, Amistad, HarperOne) in the publicity department. Alumna Nikkia Rivera, who does publicity for Flatiron Books, was a Harman program assistant. Katherine Hernandez, who works at Simon & Schuster, was also a Harman assistant.
The pathway to the publishing industry “seems to be a lovely pattern for former Harman assistants,” said Professor Bridgett Davis (Journalism), former director of the Harman Program.
Student Sable Gravesandy and Baruch alumna Anacaona Rodriguez Martinez, who are both interning at The New York Review of Books, recently earned a double byline in NYRB for an interview with Ed Park, a novelist, journalist, former executive editor at Penguin Press, and founding editor of The Believer magazine.
“Our Harman interns are doing us proud over there,” said Harman Program director Esther Allen, who coordinates the NYRB internships for Baruch students.
Rodriguez is studying for her master’s at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
Candelario decided to pursue a career in publishing after her stint at NYRB. The internship provided “the skill set and experience that made me confident in pursuing other internships, and eventually, my current role” at HarperCollins, she said.
