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Nyack Campus Admissions Staff

Dinesh Mahtani

Director of Admissions
and International Student Recruiter

Hometown: Northern New Jersey

Major in College: Organizational Management

What do you love about Nyack: I remember the first time I started to work here in 2007 and we went to a Chapel service. I was blown away. It was my first experience with prayer at the workplace!! I felt the presence of God that day and I knew that this was the right place for me to work and to go back to school. Another aspect I love is the People! The faculty, staff, and students are like church family...you can definitely feel Jesus' love on campus.

What do you do in your spare time: Spare time? What spare time? I am a youth leader and a husband, so there is no spare time after that!! (Just kidding). I enjoy movies, reading, spending time with family, and traveling. I want to travel the world and explore the great things God has made for us!

Emma Martinez

Admissions Office Manager

Hometown: Middletown, NY

Major in College: Organizational Management

What do you love about Nyack: I love lots of things. The college is very inspiring. The students are great. The faculty is extremely understanding and they really work with you. The campus is peaceful and tranquil. It's an awesome place to be at!

What do you do in your spare time: I enjoy working out, reading, and also spending time with my family.

Natasha Pettigrew

Assistant Office Manager

Hometown: Long Island

Major in College: Sociology

What do you love about Nyack: I love the students and the professors. The relationships that you develop at Nyack are lasting and life changing. I also love the freedom that I have to pray and worship God and people will sometimes join in with me. It reminds me that we all make up the body of Christ and I'm encouraged by that.

What do you do in your spare time: Well with the little spare time I have, I enjoy reading and watching movies. I also like to spend time with friends and family and have a great time laughing and relaxing. When the weather is nice outside I take long drives and just appreciate the beautiful landscape of Rockland County.

Margie Jennings

Communications Coordinator

Hometown: Garrison, NY

Major in College: Communications

What you love about Nyack: I love Nyack College because it has a rich history. Since 1882 Albert B. Simpson had a vision for a college of multi cultural diversity, where students can come from all over the world to learn about God and gain a more intimate personal relationship with Him. Nyack is a place where you can make wonderful friends as well as grow academically and spiritually.

What do you do in your spare time: I love spending time with my family.

Daniel Cortes

Admissions Counselor (Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens)

Hometown: Bronx NY

Major in College: Pastoral Ministry & Philosophy

What do you do in your spare time: Well in my spare time my wife and I love having fun!! We love to spend time with family and friends any time we get the chance. I love board games, video games, and BBQ. I also have a passion for real state and love looking for possible investments. I am a very easy going person so for me I just love being around people and spending quality time. I also love being apart of ministry and doing what God has put in my heart to do in order to advance his kingdom.

What do you love about Nyack: What I love about is Nyack is how this school has a way of meeting people's needs in many different ways. For some students Nyack is meeting their academic desire and for others it meeting their soul's desire. What I mean is that Nyack can, and is, a place for change and second chances depending on what you need. I was a HEOP student with a learning disability and came from some of the hardest parts of the Bronx where life was more about survival than about achievement. Nyack gave me a chance to see a different life. Not a life based on desperation but one who lives with inspiration. Because of this, I was the first in my family to make it to college and my life is great. I gained friends and mentors that I will take with me for the rest of my life. I was trained in ministry and given a chance to help people who if not given a chance their life would be wasted, and that is why I love Nyack because even now I have been able to help the students of NYC know that they to can have change and a second chance here at Nyack.

Joel Fevig

Admissions Counselor (Local NY Counties and Long Island, NY)

Hometown: Valparaiso, IN

Major in College: Pastoral Ministry

What do you love about Nyack: The People are the best at Nyack College

What do you do in your Spare time: Spend time with my wife, Sirai Fevig. I just got back from my honeymoon :). I love to play basketball, watch movies, and listen to music. Also, did I mention I just got back from my honeymoon!! :-)

Jillian McCaffrey

Admissions Counselor (Upstate NY, FL, PA and OH)

Hometown: Nyack, NY

Major in College: Intercultural Studies Major and French Minor

What do you love about Nyack: I love the diversity of Nyack. The fact that Nyack is so ethnically, socioeconomically, and culturally diverse makes it a very unique place. This gives everyone that is a part of the community the opportunity to learn from those who are different. A classroom does not have to be filled with desks and chairs. A classroom can be a conversation with someone different than yourself. The intentional diversity at Nyack provides ample opportunity to learn from others and that is a huge part of what college is about.
I also love that students at Nyack are encouraged to be who they are. Nyack does a wonderful job at providing students with the opportunity to be discipled. At Nyack, it is okay to admit that you are broken and students are encouraged to be real and walk with each other in their humanness.

What do you do in your spare time: In my spare time, I really enjoy being with friends. Laughing is probably my favorite past time and I have learned that when my friends are involved, laughter ensues! I also enjoy movies, music (especially if it is live), and good books. I also spend time adding to my ever expanding earring collection. Also, I have spent the last 6 years learning to love kickboxing!

Siobhan Seaman

Admissions Counselor (New Jersey)

Hometown: Pen Argyl, PA

Major in College: Pastoral Ministry, concentration in Worship and the Arts

What do you love about Nyack: Nyack College is not afraid of the messy. When Jesus lived on this earth he didn't minister to the Pharisse because their hearts were closed. He ministered and called out the broken and the lost because their hearts because they were willing. At Nyack I was able to grow as a woman of God and I was accepted as I was, mess and all (and I was really messy!). That is what I love about Nyack College.

What do you do in your spare time: During my spare time I enjoy a good movie, yummy food and time with my hubby :)

Jonathon Shaffstall

Admissions Counselor (New England, the South, West of the Mississippi, and Mid-Atlantic States)

Hometown: West Milford, NJ

Major in college: Theatre Arts: Acting/Directing

What do you love about Nyack: The people and how they're authentic and real. I love the diversity and the area we're in. I really love that I work for and support an institution, from the President down, that is love with the Lord and wants to do the Lord's will. I also love green beans.

What do you do in your spare time: I save the world one person at a time.......after I am done doing that I read scripts, act, sing, and chill with friends.

Darryl Stackhouse III

Admissions Counselor (Brooklyn and Staten Island)

Hometown: New Rochelle, NY

Major in College: Communications - TV/Film Production & Pastoral Ministries

What do you love about Nyack:The diversity, and God is magnified outside of the box. For instance, God is not just displayed in a church setting.

What do you do in your spare time: I love traveling, watching TV, visiting TV studios and participating in live audiences for TV shows, eating, going to church, and spending time in the greatest city in the world: the big NYC!

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