CMC Career Services

Meet Ibukun! Ibukun is a sophomore majoring in Psychology with a Leadership Studies sequence.

On campus, he is part of ASCMC and CMC’s Black Student Association, a space for Black students to learn, grow, and implement positive change. Ibukun is also an Advocate, Admissions tour guide, and plays a huge role in CMS Athletics, working with both intramurals and varsity athletics. You’ve probably seen his videos on social media!

Outside of CMC, Ibukun was selected to the 2025 Rose Bowl Game Mentorship class. The Rose Bowl Game is the oldest College Football Bowl game and is a Quarterfinal College Football Playoff Game. He was staffed in the hotel with one of the visiting teams, the University of Alabama, and worked with events setup/planning, managing vendors, credentialing, and more. The coolest part of his experience was meeting the Heisman Winner, Fernando Mendoza, during media day!

Ibukun points to the Creative and Entertainment Networking trek for giving him the confidence to apply to the Rose Bowl program. He also had an amazing time meeting professionals in the industry, which gave him confidence to reach out to more alumni!

Thanks to our graduating senior panelists who shared their wisdom with underclassmen in our Peers & Careers events in the last couple of weeks.

Today we will feature advice from seniors in the Medicine, Healthcare & Biotech, Accounting & Financial Services, and Science & Environment Career Clusters.

From all of us at The Soll Center: Congrats on wrapping up fall semester! Enjoy your well deserved winter break whether that be napping, working on your own fun projects, binge watching shows, reading, adventuring or just spending time with those you hold dear - savor every moment! See you in 2026!

If you are a Junior (rising senior) interested in VC and entrepreneurship, consider the True Ventures Fellowship for Summer 2026! Attend the info session to learn more from 2 CMC recipients who will share their experiences and answer your questions! The True Ventures application closes on Nov 10.

From all of us in Career Services Soll Center, Welcome and Welcome Back! We hope you had a great first or last first day and have a great semester!

Today we are featuring Nico Riley ‘27! Nico is a rising junior majoring in CS and Human Centered Design. He is a Computer Vision Researcher through the National Science Foundation’s REU Program at Harvey Mudd College. As part of his role in the Lab’s Action Recognition Team, he evaluates the performance of state-of-the-art video recognition models, contributes to data collection, and stays current with relevant literature. He found the opportunity through a CMC friend who directed him to an on campus event on the REU Program.

Check out what some CMC’ers are doing this summer with our summer intern spotlight series. Today we are featuring Kahani Malhotra ‘27! Kahani is a rising junior majoring in PPE and Film Studies. She is a news intern at LAist, which is both an NPR- affiliated news station (the largest in LA!) and an online newspaper outlet. She has been working with the watchdog and investigations teams to produce news pieces and long form investigative work. Thus far, she has reported on the illegality of LAPD’s use of less-lethal projectiles during the anti-ICE protests, the law behind firework bans in California, and a landmark court decision for homeless services in L.A. In the past 4 weeks, she has gotten to write three articles and co-author four, attend a press event on L.A. County’s new homeless services dispatch center and record audio segments of her written work - two of which have been aired on the radio at 89.3 FM! She says that it has been an honor to get to work with some of the best reporters in SoCal. She learned about the opportunity through a CMC classmate and a faculty member.

The final post for the 24-25 year pays tribute to the Soll Social Media Team! Check out the stats for what Sophia, Jonathan, Giselle, Jaida, Mehr and Sasha accomplished this year. 48 reels and 26 posts (non-reel) that garnered a total of 158,511 views and a total of 352 headshots taken! To our graduating seniors, Sophia, Jonathan and Sasha - It has been a blast for 3 years! Thank you for all of your ideas, creativity and output. Your energy, humor and fun will be very missed!

Meet Milan! Milan is a sophomore pursuing an Economics and Data Science dual major.

On campus, Milan is part of the 5C Product Space, a club that focuses on helping students grow as leaders in product management. She is also on the CMS Swim & Dive team, an Institute Assistant at the Kravis Leadership Institute, and a Robert Day Scholar!

This past summer, she was a Product Management Intern at LightUp AI, a data quality monitoring start-up. There, she developed an onboarding feature for business users that were navigating the platform. Milan also went on the Evans ITAB Networking Trek in Silicon Valley where she got to meet alumni and explore various paths.

Milan points to the one-on-one meetings with Grace at the Soll Center as one of the biggest helps in her journey thus far. She has also had multiple coffee chats with alumni and employers to gain advice and learn more.

Meet Josefine! Josefine is a junior pursuing an Economics and Data Science Dual Major. She is also an RDS and McKenna Scholar.

On campus, she is part of the Claremont Consulting Group (CCG), a student-run management consulting firm, and Claremont Women in Business (CWIB), a club that focuses on personal and professional growth. Josephine is also part of CMC’s Financial Economics Institute.

This past summer, Josefine was a Cloud & Digital Consulting Intern at PwC where she guided clients through cloud transformations that helped agility and strategy. This year, she will spend her summer as a Summer Associate at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the “Big Three”.

Josefine believes that Soll Center has been one of the biggest benefits to her career development process. Through the Consulting networking trek, she was able to solidify her interest, and was able to learn about various experiences through coffee chats. She thanks Gary and the scholar communities coaches for giving her career advice!

Meet Floribert, a sophomore majoring in Economics with a sequence in Data Science and Finance. On campus, Floribert is involved in the CMC community as a Resident Technology Assistant (RTA), a front desk assistant at the Admissions Office, and a member of the consulting club Source.

Floribert emphasizes the importance of CMC’s Networking Treks in shaping his career aspirations. He participated in the Evans ITAB Silicon Valley Networking Trek, which provided valuable exposure to industry professionals and opportunities to explore careers in technology and business. Additionally, Floribert credits his sessions with First Year Coach Priscilla, support from career services mentors, and coffee chats with alumni and employers as key resources that have supported his career development during his first year at CMC.