CREATE Fellows at SFSU Graduates 27 Students

Congratulations to the 2025-2026 CREATE Fellows SFSU Cohort. On May 14, 27 students graduated from the two-semester, in-person Fellows program. These students received 16 hours of curriculum instruction plus numerous additional networking and hands-on opportunities to learn about the CRE industry, its career pathways, and its people. These students are passionate about CRE and ready to enter the industry — some graduating May 2025, some in December 2025 and the remainder in Spring 2026. Employers — tap into this talent!

Employers can take advantage of CREATE’s free job bank portal which connects employers and students for entry-level, commercial real estate, related positions and internships. This value-add supports CREATE’s goal of connecting educated and trained students and graduates with local industry employers. Click here to access job bank portal.

CREATE’s relationship with San Francisco State University, Lam Family College of Business is 12+ years strong. As one of our educational partners, SFSU is committed to marketing the program throughout the college. Together with our partners we CREATE career pathways in commercial real estate.

Beginning front row, second from left, Kathy Mattes, CREATE Board member and curriculum chair; Paul Glanting, Dir. of Career Services and Prof. Devel. Lam Family College of Business, SFSU; Yim-Yu Wong, Ph.D., Assoc. Dean, Lam Family College of Business, SFSU; and Rachel Chen, CRE Program Coordinator, SFSU.

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CREATE is an alliance of BOMA San Francisco, BOMA Oakland/East Bay, IREM San Francisco, and NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area.

The amount of success I've had through CREATE has been incredible. The network that I built through the CREATE program created the pathway to my new position.
Kaitlyn Klinger, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2020

How much have we contributed to the companies that we've worked with? A little donation is trivial compared to what we contribute to these companies.
Cameron Maharaj, CREATE CRE Certificate Holder, JLL

CREATE completely surpassed all of my expectations. Everything I was able to learn in CREATE I'm actually able to put to work everyday. It's not just property management, its leasing, its design and more.
Alexis Escaranio, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by Resource Commercial Real Estate

The CREATE program gave me that framework to understand how a building operates that I wouldn't have been able to learn without time in the industry.
Marco McCartney, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by JLL

The CREATE program prepared me for the job and then also through their job board I was able to find a job.
Jered Baker, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2020, employed by Swift Real Estate Partners

We’re not only training a CRE workforce through our partnership with CREATE; we’re highlighting commercial real estate as a career alternative in a highly complex, technology focused Bay Area.
Sandra Boyle, Cushman & Wakefield

Keep on looking to CREATE for a talent pipeline because that right there brings so much value to your company.
Christine Mann, Rockhill Management

If you're not involved in this you are missing a great opportunity. Get involved, participate, contribute.
Glenn Good, Glenn Good Group

It's hard to come up with something that would make CREATE better. I truly believe they give you everything you need to get the most out of the program.
Cameron Newcomb, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by JLL

The best way to get an employee that's eager and hungry to learn more is definitely through the CREATE program.
Amy La, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, Employed by JLL

CREATE's commercial real estate fellows classes support our industry’s growing employment needs.
Tawni Sullivan, Board Chair, Consultant, JNT Solutions

I’ve been so impressed with the quality of interns our company has sourced through CREATE's training program; we’ve now hired several of them as full-time employees!
Rick Buziak, Swift Real Estate Partners