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Gail Ader-Fecci

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
Glassboro State College - B.S. Political Science

Where are you from?
East Rutherford, NJ (born in Brooklyn)

When did you start working at NYU?
January 9, 2012

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Administrative Aide - Budget Unit

What do you love most about your job in three words?
Working with students

Pick a NYC anthem.
"Autumn in New York" by Billie Holiday

When I'm not at work, you can find me at...
The theatre, either broadway or off-broadway

Tava Bingham

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
University of Texas at Austin - B.A. Women's and Gender Studies
University of Central Florida - M.A. Educational Leadership
University of Alabama - Ed.D. Higher Education Administration

Where are you from?
All over! Army Brat

When did you start working at NYU?
May 5, 2019

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Associate Director for Club Life, Director of Operations

What advice would you give to first year students?
Step outside of your comfort zone and try something new! Find your passion areas!


Describe your relationship with the MTA in three emojis.

🙃👀🤷🏾‍♀️

Favorite back to school supply?
RSVP pens (fine point) & my Passion Planner

Annie Cassutt

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school & what's your degree in?
Iowa State University - B.S. Public Relations and Event Management and currently pursuing my M.A. in Higher Education and Student Affairs at NYU

Where are you from?
Manchester, IA

When did you start working at NYU?
September 2, 2021

What's your role in the Center for Student Life?
Graduate Assistant for Media and Communications

What is your #MondayMotivation song?
Let's Groove by Earth Wind and Fire

Favorite back to school supply?
Fresh Planner

If you were a student at NYU, which club would you be most excited to join?
The Journal of Sustainability

Where would you take family for dinner in New York City?
The Olive Garden in Times Square

Coolest celebrity spotting in the city?
Kyle Mooney from SNL and Noah Reid who plays Patrick on Schitt's Creek!

When I'm not at work, you can find me at....
A local coffee shop in Brooklyn  

Sherrill Collins

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
New York University - B.A. Humanities

Where are you from?
New York

When did you start working at NYU?
October 29, 1990

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Program Administrator, Program Board

What advice would you give to first year students?
Take advantage of leadership workshops, make connections, and use work and volunteer opportunities at NYU to strengthen your resume.

If you were a student at NYU, which club would you be most excited to join?
Program Board, Organization of Black Women

When I'm not at work, you can find me at...
Home writing or at a gymnastic meet with my daughter.

Helena Francis

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
New York University - B.A. Social Sciences

Where are you from?
Brooklyn, New York

When did you start working at NYU?
February 16, 1999

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Administrative Aide

What advice would you give to first year students?
Explore career opportunities that will enable you to make a positive difference.

What do you love most about your job in three words?
Comraderie, student-focus, program-driven

Coolest celebrity spotting in the city?
Spike Lee

David Gonzalez

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
University of Toledo - B.A. Journalism
Bowling Green State University - M.A. College Student Personnel

Where are you from?
Amherst, Ohio

When did you start working at NYU?
August 31, 2016

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Assistant Director, Fraternity & Sorority Life

What advice would you give to graduating students?
The real world is only as scary as you make it: prioritize, meet new people, and take advantage of any personal professional, and social opportunities to explore your new life!

What do you love most about your job in three words?
Student, Colleagues, Keurig-Coffee-Machine

When I'm not at work, you can find me at...
Local coffee shop.

Dory Gurinsky

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school & what's your degree in?
NYU - B.S. Psychology and I am back now pursuing a master's in Higher Education and Student Affairs from NYU.

Where are you from?
Austin, Texas

When did you start working at NYU?
July 20, 2020

What's your role in the Center for Student Life?
Fraternity & Sorority Life Graduate Assistant

What advice would you give to first year students?
Your first year goes by much faster than you think - take advantage of what NYU has to offer! You won't regret it.

Describe NYU in three words.

Limitless, accepting, formative

NYC, the big apple! Red or Green?

Red

Describe your relationship with the MTA in three emojis.
🥴🤔😕

Favorite back to school supply?
Mechanical pencils - it takes me back to my k-12 school days.

Coolest celebrity spotting in the city?
Kit Harrington & Rose Leslie, Sarah Silverman & Michael Sheen, Sebastian Stan, James Franco, the list goes on!

When I'm not at work, you can find me at....

Walking around NYC! It is one of my favorite things to do - I love to explore new streets and places.

Nanci Healy

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
Indiana University - B.A. Broadcast Journalism

Where are you from?
Northport, NY

When did you start working at NYU?
Septemer 4, 2012

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Assistant Director, Student Media & Communications

What is your favorite NYU tradition?
Commencement

What do you love most about your job in three words?
Working with students

If you were a student at NYU, which club would you be most excited to join?
Cheese Club and Washington Square News

Alpha Kuyateh

Where did you go for your undergrad?
Univeristy of North Carolina Greenboro - B.A. General Music

Where are you from?
Wake Forest, NC

When did you start working at NYU?
June 6, 2021

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Graduate Assistant for Welcome Programs and Class Activities Board

What is your #MondayMotivation Song?
"I Smile" by Kirk Franklin

NYC, the big apple! Red or Green?
Green

Favorite Back to school supply?
A new backpack

What do you love most about your job in three words?
Working with students

Horoscope?
Leo

Identity to me is...
Everything. Own every part of who you are because there is nobody else in the world like you!

If you were a student at NYU, which club would you be most excited to join?
One of the many acapella groups

When I'm not at work you can find me...
My apartment, hibernating or playing my PlayStation

Lukas La Rivière

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school & what's your degree in?
Warren Wilson College - B.A. Philosophy
New York University - M.A. Social & Cultural Analysis

Where are you from?
New Jersey, Vermont, North Carolina

When did you start working at NYU?
June 22, 2015

What's your role in the Center for Student Life?
Assistant Director, Club Life

What is your favorite NYU tradition?
Club Fest & NY(Drag)U

What advice would you give to graduating students?
Club can be careers! Don't forget to mention the experience you have running or being a part of clubs when listing your skills and experience to employers.

What do you love most about your job in three words?
So many clubs!

Marlene Lillo-Smith

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
New York University - B.A. Business with a concentration in Economics

NYU - M.A. Higher Education and Student Affairs

Where are you from?
Santiago, Chile

When did you start working at NYU?
June 23, 2008

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Budget Assistant

What is your favorite NYU tradition?
Grad Ally

What advice would you give to graduating students?
It is time for you to take your online reputation seriously. Hiring managers will look it up!

Describe NYU in three words.
Global. Research. Purple.

Bianca Phillips

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school & what's your degree in?
University of Florida - B.A. Anthropology

Boston College - M.A. Higher Education

Where are you from?
Pensacola, FL

When did you start working at NYU?
January 5, 2021

What's your role in the Center for Student Life?
Program Administrator for Welcome Programs and CAB

What advice would you give to first year students?
Take in absolutely every moment and cherish all of your experiences at NYU.

What is your #MondayMotivation song?

Probably Tie Me Down by Gryffin and Elley Duhe or Body by Meg Thee Stallion

NYC, the big apple! Red or Green?
Red

Describe your relationship with the MTA in three emojis.
😤🤪🤯

What do you love most about your job in three words?
the students!!!

Favorite back to school supply?
A new planner/journal and pens

Horoscope?
Aquarius

What's your NYC anthem?
“Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z with Alicia Keys

Yankees or Mets?
Yankees

Before I was at NYU I was...
living in Boston

When I'm not at work, you can find me at....

a music festival

Stephen Polniaszek

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
New York University - B.A. Literature
Royal Holloway College, University of London - Theatre Credits
Auburn Theological Seminary - Course Work     

Where are you from?
Buffalo, NY

When did you start working at NYU?
September 27, 1969

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Assistant Director, Club Life

Describe NYU in three words.
City as classroom

If you were a student at NYU, which club would you be most excited to join?
Minetta Review

Coolest celebrity spotting in the city?
Mick Jagger in E&L sound booth

Shannon Rush

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school & what's your degree in?
Elon University - Elementary & Special Education

New York University - M.A. Higher Education and Student Affairs

Where are you from?
Lenox, MA

When did you start working at NYU?
August 28, 2019

What's your role in the Center for Student Life?
Graduate Assistant for NYU Service & Leadership

What is your favorite NYU tradition?
Kimmel Stairs during NYU Welcome

What advice would you give to first year students?
Try something (a class, an event, a club) your high school self would have never done!

What advice would you give to graduating students?
Enjoy every moment!

Describe NYU in three words.

Washington Square Park

What is your #MondayMotivation song?

NPR Up First

NYC, the big apple! Red or Green?

Red

Describe your relationship with the MTA in three emojis.
🥴🕶🤗

What do you love most about your job in three words?
Students, Mentors, Grads

Favorite back to school supply?
Post-it Notes

If you were a student at NYU, which club would you be most excited to join?
UNICEF@NYU

Horoscope?
Gemini

Where would you take family for dinner in New York City?
Roberta's

What's your NYC anthem?
"Welcome to New York" by Taylor Swift

Coolest celebrity spotting in the city?
Jennifer Hudson in the park!

Yankees or Mets?
Mets

Before I was at NYU I was...
Working full-time at a YMCA Resident camp in NH

The best $1 slice of pizza can be found at...
Joe's Pizza

When I'm not at work, you can find me at....

Somewhere outdoors!

Cameron Terry

Where did you go for your undergrad?
Univeristy of Oklahoma- B.A. Modern Dance Performance

Where are you from?
Atlanta, GA

When did you start working at NYU?
August 15, 2021

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Graduate Assistant for Club Life

Describe NYU in three words...
Under the arch

NYC, the big apple! Red or Green?
Green

Favorite Back to school supply?
Airpods

Audrey Underwood

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
New York University - B.A. Humanities

Where are you from?
The South, but I grew up in New York

When did you start working at NYU?
October 15, 1990

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Budget Manager

What is your favorite NYU tradition?
Strawberry Fest

What advice would you give to first year students?
Be yourself

Describe your relationship with the MTA in three emojis.
☺️🐌 ☹

Isabella Villacampa

Where did you go for your undergrad/grad school? What's your degree in?
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo - B.S. Business Administration
Indiana University - M.Ed. Higher Educations and Student Affairs

Where are you from?
Vacaville, CA

When did you start working at NYU?
May 24, 2014

What is your role in the Center for Student Life?
Associate Director, Commuity Engagement, Welcome Programs

What is your favorite NYU tradition?
Student Leadership Retreats

Describe NYU in three words.
I heard someone describe NYU students one time as "Memes, Politics & Brunch"

If you were a student at NYU, which club would you be most excited to join?
International Filipino Association

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