Meet Your Staff

Hall Directors (HD)

Name: Elizabeth Braxton 

Hometown: Newark, N.J. 

Birthday: June 27th 

College: Montclair State University, B.A. in Communication Studies

Graduate School: Rutgers College Student Affairs Master's Program (c/o 2012) 

Fun Fact: I eat pizza backwards. 

Favorite Quote: "The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours." 

Name: Nicole Sara Ponticorvo

Hometown: Ridgefield, N.J.

Birthday: February 17, 1987

College: University of Virginia (c/o 2009), B.A. in English & Italian

Graduate School: Rutgers College Student Affairs Master's Program (c/o 2013)

Fun Fact: I write 99.9 % of emails in colors other than black.
Favorite Quote: "When you get the chance to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance."

APARTMENT ASSISTANTS (AA)

Name: Steven Le 

Hometown: Union, N.J.

Birthday: June 23rd

Major: Biotechnology

Fun Fact: I once auditioned for American Idol when auditions came to the Meadowlands in 2008.
Favorite Quote: The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." 

Name: Daniale Simmons

Hometown: East Orange, N.J.

Birthday: August 17, 1990

Major: Criminal Justice

Fun Fact: I like baking cookies (:

Favorite Quote: "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

Name: Joshua Epstein 

Hometown: Freehold, N.J.

Birthday: November 12, 1990

Major: Biological Sciences

Fun Fact: I enjoy rollerblading down the boardwalk in the summer.

Favorite Quote: "Some are born great, others achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

Name: Christin Nassar
Hometown: Jersey City, N.J.
Birthday: July 3, 1989
College: Rutgers c/o 2011, B.A.in Psychology/Sociology

Grad School: Rutgers, MSW in Clinical Social Work (c/o 2014)

Fun Fact:I have two birthdays...and no, I was not born on leap year :P (ps: ask her how!)

Favorite Quote:"Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed."

Name: Chike Achebe 
Hometown: Irvington, N.J.
Birthday: July 30th
Major: Political Science
Fun Fact: I have traveled to 3 different continents and would like to go to the other 4 (yes, Antarctica included!)
Favorite Quote: "Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better." - Martin Luther King

Name: Matt Kirson
Hometown: Manalapan, N.J.
Birthday: January 10, 1991
Fun Fact: I love photography--I always have my camera around to snap some pictures!
Favorite Quote: "Be the change you want to see in the world."

Name: Marlon Davis 

Hometown: Willingboro, N.J. 

Birthday: July 30, 1990

Major: Landscape Architecture

Fun Fact: I am obsessed with Peanut M&Ms. 

Favorite Quote: "Knowledge is Power." 

Name: Cherie Darby

Hometown: Kingston, Jamaica
Birthday: October 18th
Major: Journalism, Media Studies & Sociology
Fun Fact: I like to salsa dance. 
Favorite Quote: "There are causes much greater than ourselves that require our undivided attention and only outside of our selfishness can we see  them." - By Me. 

Name: Eric Mendez 
Hometown: North Bergen, N.J. 
Birthday: May 1,1989 
Major: Food Science 
Fun Fact: I am going Skydiving this summer!
Favorite Quote: "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." 

Name: Richard Moses
Hometown: Newark, N.J. 
Birthday: October 7, 1990 
Major: Biological Science
Fun Fact: I love performing!
Favorite Quote: "Good music should challenge the listener to do something; if not dance, then to think, to feel, and to reflect." 

Name: Tommy Nichols 
Hometown: Edison, N.J. 
Birthday: October 22, 1990 
Major: Economics and Political Science
Fun Fact: I am an Eagle Scout, and I enjoy participating in any and all outdoor activities.
Favorite Quote: "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein 

Name: Jade McClain
Hometown: Bloomfield, N.J. 
Birthday: June 8th
Major: Journalism
Fun Fact: I'm a registered salt water angler.
Favorite Quote: "Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight we dine in Hell!" 

Name: Gabrielle Cincotta 
Hometown: Lincroft, N.J.
Birthday: February 11, 1990
Major: Psychology 
Fun Fact: I was offered a job in the circus as a trapeze artist.
Favorite Quote: "Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come...The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."

Name: Andrew Ortega 
Hometown: Hillsborough, N.J. 
Birthday: February 1st 
Major: Exercise Science & Sports Studies
Fun Fact: I can jump very high!  
Favorite Quote: "As you think, so shall you become." - Bruce Lee