Catubig ’26 Scores Big from Working for Celtics, Bruins, and Red Sox

Since high school, Chris Catubig ’26 has dreamed of interning for the Boston Celtics—and this semester he’s living that dream.

Catubig is interning with the Celtics’ Community Engagement team, a role that fits his gregarious and community-focused personality.

“I worked at the YMCA throughout high school and the Celtics would come and do community events,” said Catubig. “At the YMCA, I loved working with the youth community.”

Catubig remembers Celtics players and personnel presenting The Playbook initiative, an anti-discrimination and bias-prevention program.

“Part of the program is discussing real life uncomfortable scenarios, and how they’d go about dealing with the scenarios,” said Catubig. “I like the events that connect a player and organization with the community.”

His Celtics internship this semester includes a wide range of responsibilities. He helps the Boston Shamrock Foundation manage and respond to donations, organizes logistics for player appearances, coordinates the 50/50 game-day raffle, and interacts with children during community events. He even DJ’d for a Bentley University career day held at the Celtics’ office.

Catubig credits Communication Studies Affiliated Faculty Charles Steinberg with helping prepare him for the Celtics internship interview. In a sophomore year class assignment, students were asked to develop ideas for how sports teams could grow a department. Catubig said Steinberg treated the presentations like real-life professional pitches.

“I did mine about community engagement for the Celtics. I curated hypothetical events they could do,” said Catubig.

Steinberg encouraged him to send his proposal to Celtics Vice President of Public Relations Jeff Twiss.

Now, as a Celtics intern two years later, Catubig sits next to Twiss in meetings and continues to learn from him and his 45 years with the team.

“He taught me that in general, no career path is linear. He didn’t know he was going to do PR for the Celtics when he started as an intern,” said Catubig.

Catubig’s Celtics experience builds on previous work with other Boston sports organizations. He previously interned for the Boston Bruins Foundation, where he focused more directly on charity and fundraising initiatives. Part of his role included researching and developing ideas to help increase fundraising.

Catubig first heard about the Bruins internship through a coworker from his game day job with the Boston Red Sox last summer. Throughout his time working with the Red Sox and Bruins, he kept an eye out for opportunities with the Celtics.

When he got the call for an interview with the team, he remembered the lessons he learned from Steinberg. The process included three rounds of interviews, with the final round focused primarily on personality—a key component of a community engagement role.

The interviewers asked just two questions: What would be your WWE superstar entrance song? (He picked Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind.”) And what three songs best describe you? (He chose two Kendrick Lamar songs—”Humble” and “DNA”—and a J.Cole song.)

Catubig said the Celtics internship has been a lot of fun “even if it’s [just] surprising kids at their seats to give them gear.” Even more, it’s helped him decide whether he wants to pursue social responsibility positions.

“This internship has been phenomenal,” said Catubig. “[It] really affirmed this is the path for me.”