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Brookdale Alumni Spotlights

Choose one of the feature stories to learn about the achievements of Brookdale alumni in their academic and professional pursuits. Please send questions or comments to lconcar@brookdalecc.edu.

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Alumni Spotlight: Brian Duffy

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Alumni Spotlight: Edward Van Wicklen

Brookdale Alumna Mariel Inglima Will Be On Food Network In August

Brookdale Alumna Publishes First Book of Poetry

Erik Tiernan

Robert Costa Member Of The First Graduation Class

Dr. Deborah Josko

Jim Josselyn

Nick Santoro

Brookdale Interior Design Graduate Helps Design The Well

Kevin Moedt

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Nicholas Romano

Brookdale Alumnus Earns Scholarship from Stockton University under Partnership Program

Brookdale Alumni Participate in 2019 Atlantic City Fashion Show

Alex Acevedo

Brookdale Graduate Continues Studies at Fashion Institute of Technology

Brookdale Graduate Targets Career in Motion Graphics

Honors Graduate Follows Path to Ivy League

Brookdale Graduate Think Tank Focuses on Eurasia

Join us for our Stigma Free Speaker Series

Gina Hooper

From addiction to recovery, from Brookdale to a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CDAC), Gina has risen above insurmountable odds to find freedom and success, living a life of joy!

Join us as Gina shares her remarkable and compelling story of resiliency and faith and the dedication she now has to help others.

📌 October 28
📌 11:45 am
📌Navesink I in the Student Life Center or Zoom

For more information and access to the Zoom, visit brookdalecc.edu/stigma-free-lectures
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Let our Admissions staff show you why Brookdale is such a perfect fit for so many students.

Join one of our virtual info sessions and see for yourself!

Register now at brookdalecc.edu/admission-event
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month Discussion Panel

📌 October 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Beyond the headlines and our social media feeds, the reality of domestic and dating violence is something that touches all lives. Join members of the WILL+ Student Organization and guest panelist Crystal Watson, program coordinator at 180:Turning Lives Around, for a timely and important discussion that will cover the issues impacting our community as well as support services provided by 180:Turning Lives Around. This webinar will provide an opportunity for audience Q&A and all members of the community are invited to attend!

Register at brookdalecc.edu/dvamonth
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Just a little campus visitor enjoying Brookdale's crunchy leaf season! 🐢
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This weekend is your final chance to catch Brookdale's award-winning Haunted Theater! 👻

Tickets must be purchased in advance at brookdalehauntedtheater.com
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Meet the Professor...Behind the Mask

Professor Scimeca is a professor in our History department!

Some facts about Professor Scimeca include:

📌 She lived on the same street as a winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics!
📌 She is a Yankees fan.
📌 She founded a community theater in 1987 that is still in operation.
📌 She is a dog person.
📌 She had two cars that caught fire while she was driving them.

For more on our History department, visit brookdalecc.edu/history
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The Epicurean Club meeting up this morning volunteering for the Beach Sweeps for Clean Ocean Action in Asbury Park.
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A rainy Tuesday on campus!
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Congratulations coach Onder! 🎉⚽️🎉

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Brookdale Community College's head women's soccer coach, Nil Onder, has been named the GSAC Coach of the Year. Onder is in her first official year as head coach for the Blues, as she was interim head coach of last spring's alternative Covid 19 season.

Onder is not new to the Brookdale Jersey Blues soccer program. She attended Brookdale as a student-athlete herself and was a standout midfielder during the 2008-2009 seasons and was a member of the 2008 GSAC championship team. Following her success as a soccer player, Onder returned to the field to be a volunteer coach under former head coach, Katie Amundson, as she assisted the Blues to three consecutive national championship titles in 2013, 2014, & 2015. Onder was officially hired as the Asssistant Coach in 2016 until her most recent hire as head coach.

Coach Onder lead the 2021 Jersey Blues to a #5 national ranking, a #1 seed in the Region XIX playoffs, and an 8-2 overall season with an undefeated 6-0 conference record. Congratulations to Coach Nil Onder!
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The Monarch Waystation and Meditation Garden is ready for Halloween!
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Welcome to Movement Generation!

On October 19th, Brookdale Community College presented Doing Well By Doing Good with Dr. Andy Gold, creator of the Innovation Lab at Hillsborough Community College in Florida. He is co-author of Impact Ed: How Community College Entrepreneurship Creates Equity and Prosperity.

A social entrepreneur is a person who pursues novel applications that have the potential to solve community-based problems.

We also had a presentation by Brookdale's The Innovation Network so participants can join the club and extend their learning. There was great energy in the air.

Brookdale Community College will collaborate with Hillsborough for their annual SEEDay- The Social Entrepeneurship Education Day- April 22, 2022.

To learn more about all this work and to join in on the energy, contact: Angela Kariotis, Director of Diversity and Inclusion/CCOG at akariotis@brookdalecc.edu.

This was a CCOG area of focus: social entrepreneurship.
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This is Gina’s story…"I started my journey at Brookdale Community College off the heels of a long-winded battle with drug addiction. But after getting clean, I knew that God had another plan for me; a huge plan for me! After taking that first step in the infamous CAR building at Brookdale to apply, working closely with each wonderful soul who cared so deeply about my future enrollment, I knew that the next phase of my life was going to be scary and the most fulfilling phase I had ever experienced. If I'm being vulnerable and honest, I started Brookdale without knowing how to even operate a computer (despite what you see on T.V., they don’t show you those things in prison, where I had spent most of my adult life). So, at the age of 35, I dove headfirst into the deep end at Brookdale. I learned every inch of the campus: its nooks and crannies and all the special people who sowed into the people, like myself, who hid in the nooks and crannies of the campus. All I knew was that it was paramount that I maintained a sense of hunger and thirst to be a better version of myself tomorrow than I was today. Since completing my degree at Brookdale, I have attained my Certified Alcohol and Drug Counseling license, graduated from Rutgers University with my bachelor’s in social work, am currently in an Advanced Standing Program for social work at Rutgers, and the Executive Service Director for Sunrise Detox, an organization that treats the addicted population in their first steps towards seeking freedom from active addiction. From every professor, even if they were not my own, to the many clubs I chose to participate in (Psychology and Human Services and NSLS clubs were my favorite!), to the employees in the Student Life Center, and to all of the Brookdale employees who cared so intimately for me to beat the multiple stigmas I was up against, I owe my success, now, to my roots from Brookdale Community College." #SoulsOfBrookdale

Join us for the Stigma Free Speaker Series on October 28th at 11:45 am. For more information, visit brookdalecc.edu/stigma-free-lectures
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Thank you News 12 NJ for featuring Brookdale's award-winning Haunted Theater in your haunted house guide!

There are still 2 more chances to catch Haunted Theater: Friday, October 29th and Saturday, October 30th from 7- 10:30 pm.

Get your tickets at Brookdalehauntedtheater.com

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Brookdale's very own President Stout was honored by the Jersey Shore Chamber of Commerce for Outstanding Community Service at the 36th Annual Golden Osprey Awards!

Congratulations President Stout!
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Brookdale Community College presents the Fall 2021 Dr. Carl Calendar Visiting Writers Series!

We are pleased to welcome Bestselling Essayist, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021

📌 This event is free and open to the public.
📌 Zoom link can be accessed by visiting brookdalecc.edu/vws

Cathy Park Hong’s New York Times bestselling book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning , was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and earned her recognition on TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 list. She is also the author of three award-winning collections of poetry.

About Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning: “Cathy Park Hong’s brilliant, penetrating, and unforgettable Minor Feelings is what was missing on our shelf of classics…To read this book is to become more human,” – Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen

For more information on future Visiting Writer Series events, please visit brookdalecc.edu/vws

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