Admissions

Meet Your Tour Guides

Manhattan College campus tours are led by our student tour guides. When you go on a tour, not only will you get to see campus, but you'll also have the opportunity to ask a current student what it's really like to attend here. If you have questions for your tour guide after your visit, please feel free to email him/her at tourguides@manhattan.edu.

Stephanie Beck   

Stephanie Beck

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Hillsdale, NJ
Major: Spanish/ Psychology
MC Activities: Psych Club, Just Peace, running Club, and Zumba
Fun Fact: I am half Cuban and half German.

 

Ian Rhatigan

Ian Rhatigan

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Albany, NY
Major: Communication/Broadcasting  |  Minor: Digital Media Arts
MC Activities: Social Life Commission, Student Government, Players, Outdoors Club, Communication Club, Intramural Soccer, Intramural Volleyball, Lasallian Leaders
Fun Fact: My YouTube channel has 130,000 hits!

 

Mark Lounello

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Albany, NY
Major: Marketing/Advertising
MC Activities: Quadrangle, Marketing Club, Outdoors Club, WRMC, Intramural Sports, Student Activities
Fun Fact: I love horse racing, longboarding and fishing.

 

Armando Rodriguez

Year: Senior
Hometown: Bergenfield, NJ
Major: Physical Therapy
MC Activities: Air Force ROTC, Air Force Fraternity, and R.A.
Fun Fact: I am currently in the Air Force ROTC program and will commission as a Second Lieutenant after graduating from MC.

 

Jaydon Stuart

Year: Freshman
Hometown: Central City, NE
Major: Accounting
MC Activities: Tour guide
Fun Fact: I took dance classes for 14 years!

 

Kathryn Smolko

Year: Freshman
Hometown: Pelham, NH
Major: Engineering
MC Activities: Players, Jasper Dancers, Campus Ministry
Fun Fact: I finally went parasailing when I was 18, after waiting to go for seven years!

 

Michael Cocce

Year: Freshman
Hometown: Newington, CT
Major: Finance & Global Business | Minor: Business Analytics
MC Activities: Finance and Economics Society, Student Government, IDEAS Investment Club
Fun Fact: I’ve managed my own Stock Portfolio since I was 14 years old.

 

Nathan Hunter

Year: Senior
Hometown: Windsor, CT
Major: Marketing  |  Minor: Environmental Studies
Activities: Marketing Club, Green Club, Student Government, College Sustainability Committee
Fun Fact: I helped build Manhattan College’s first rooftop garden, residing on the Broadway Parking Garage!

 

Caroline Magalhaes

Year: Freshman
Hometown: Miami, FL (born in Brazil)
Major: Economics | Minor: International Relations
MC Activities: Economics and Finance Society, Quad Stock, Zumba, Piloxing, Fashion Student Association, French Table
Fun Fact: I spent a summer studying abroad in Paris in high school.

 

Stephanie Brooks

Year: Senior
Hometown: Bronx, NY
Major: Broadcast & Journalism  |  Minor: Digital Media Art
MC Activities: Orientation Leader, The Quadrangle staff writer, resident assistant, secretary of Lambda Pi Eta
Fun Fact: I once held a koala, rode a camel and had a snake wrap it self around me all in a two week span!

 

Evan Lamb

Year: Senior
Hometown: Watervliet, NY
Major: Sociology with a concentration in Criminal Justice
MC Activities: Lasallian Leaders, WRCM, and multiple intramural sports
Fun Fact: I was born on the Fourth of July.

 

Alison Duffey

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Major: Psychology
MC Activities: Manhattan College Players (Vagina Monologues, Christmas Cabaret, 90s Cabaret, Charlie Brown)
Fun Fact: I have a very large family and, we enjoy playing music together! I’ve played piano since I was four and luckily, MC provides the means that allow me to express my love for music.

 

Rebecca Bertuccio

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Oceanside, NY
Majors: Psychology & Spanish
MC Activities: Lasallian Collegians, Singers, Resident Student Association, Saturdays in the City
Fun Fact: I have an internship writing for a college fashion blog!

 

Connor Ryan

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Orlando, FL
Major: Accounting  |  Minor: Finance
MC Activities: The Arches, L.O.V.E. Program (New Orleans), The Accounting Society, intramural sports
Fun Fact: I am a huge New York sports fan, and I love to surf!

 

Ynaliz Then

Year: Senior
Hometown: Bronx, NY
Major: Civil Engineering  |  Minor: Environmental Engineering
MC Activities: Vice president of Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), Association of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Water Environmental Federation (WEF)
Fun Fact: I’m a very good baker!

 

Ashley O’connor

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Hawthorne, NY
Major: Early Childhood/Special Education  |  Minor: Math and Science
MC Activities: Lasallian Collegians and Student Government
Fun Fact: I have been doing photography for the last five years and have even begun developing my own film.

 

Nicholas Federico

Year: Senior
Hometown: Bronx, NY
Major: Secondary Education with a Social Studies Concentration
MC Activities: MC History Symposium, MC Blood Drive, various special guest presentations
Fun Fact: I was a child model from 2-12 with Ford Modeling Agency, and I appeared on the Today Show as well in as T.V. commercials!

 

Christopher Bednarz

Year: Senior
Hometown: Pelham Gardens, NY
Major: Chemical Engineering
MC Activities: Outdoors Club, Engineers Without Borders, Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), Omega Chi Epsilon (Chemical Engineering Honor Society/Mentor Program), Phi Delta Epsilon (Pre-Medical Fraternity), Pen & Sword, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Fun Fact: Getting to travel internationally is one of the best parts of attending Manhattan College. Last Semester I toured Denmark, Iceland and Sweden for my English Class!

 

Brendan Goggins

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Mineola, NY
Major: Undecided – School of Arts
MC Activities: Players (board member), Scatterbomb, L.O.V.E. Program (Texas)
Fun Fact: I have been doing theater since I was 12!

 

Paige Hughes

Year: Freshman
Hometown: Ticonderoga, NY
Major: Communication (Broadcast Journalism) | Minor: Government
MC Activities: Government Club, Just Peace, Quadrangle, Manhattan Magazine, Arches Program
Fun Fact: I have a 34-pound cat named Bugsy!

 

John Corraro

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Shelton, CT
Major: Government  |  Minor: Business, Music
MC Activities: Marketing Club, Finance and Economics Club, Fashion Club, Players
Fun Fact: Last winter I sang the national anthem at a Celtics game at Boston Garden!

 

Brianne Grant

Year: Senior
Hometown: West Milford, NJ 
Major: Business Marketing
MC Activities: Staff writer for The Quadrangle, Just Peace, Student Government, Jasper Fit, Marketing Club, Players
Fun Fact: I do underwater search and recovery, and I am also a scuba diving instructor!

 

Sara Herman

Year: Junior
Hometown: Mullica Hill, NJ
Major: English | Minor: Religion
MC Activities: Orientation Leader, L.O.V.E. Board (New Orleans), Catholic Relief Services ambassador
Fun Fact: I was born in Germany!

 

Arielle Simmons

Year: Junior
Hometown: Elmwood, NJ
Major: Communication/Public Relations | Minor: Environmental Studies
MC Activities: Green Club, Manhattan Magazine, Lasallian Collegians, Orientation Leader
Fun Fact: My favorite sneakers are Original Chuck Taylor Converse and my life/wardrobe would not be complete without them!

 

John Homler

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Hawthorne, NJ
Major: Civil Engineering
MC Activities: MC Players, American Society of Civil Engineers
Fun Fact: I am an Eagle Scout.

 

Stephanie Bramante

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Major: Business (Management)  |  Minor: Communication
MC Activities: Co-Chair of the Relay For Life, intramural sports, Yankee/Ranger games, Six Flags trips, Lasallian Collegians
Fun Fact: I love pickles.

 

Katherine Tkach

Year: Junior
Hometown: Huntington, NY
Major: Biology
MC Activities: L.O.V.E. Jamaica, Honors Enrichment Program, Florence summer study abroad program
Fun Fact: I transferred from the University of Connecticut.

 

Marita Keane

Year: Senior
Hometown: Bronx, NY
Major: Dual Elementary/Special Education with a concentration in English
MC Activities: Alpha Upsilon Pi Sorority, Gaelic Society, Catholic Relief Services, intramural soccer, intramural volleyball, L.O.V.E. Program (New Orleans)
Fun Fact: I have never spent a full summer in the United States!

 

Hannah Turnbull

Year: Senior
Hometown: Bath, ME
Major: Finance | Minor: Economics
MC Activities: Treasurer of the Thomas Moore Law Society
Fun Fact: I love fly fishing!

 

Sarah Fitzgerald

Year: Junior
Hometown: Nanuet, NY
Major: Early/Special Education
MC Activities: Campus Recreation, L.O.V.E. Program, Kappa Delta Pi, study abroad
Fun Fact: My car is a 1964 VW bus that is painted lime green with shamrocks!

 

Elaina Ferreira

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Albany, NY
Major: Accounting
MC Activities: Relay For Life committee, Just Peace, Accounting Society, Passport Program, Arches Program (Freshmen Year)
Fun Fact: I have been to Portugal nine times.

 

Michael Fede

Year: Junior
Hometown: Plainview, NY
Major: Civil Engineering
MC Activities: Manhattan College Mentor Program, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York Water and Environment Association, fall and spring intramurals
Fun Fact: I love playing sports, and I love country music!

 

Victoria Palermo

Year: Junior
Hometown: Bronx, NY
Major: Civil Engineering
MC Activities: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Association of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Fun Fact: I love to read. I can read for days at a time. When I read I get so lost in the book, I lose track of what is going on around me!

 

Brandon Kotlow

Year: Senior
Hometown: Wakefield, RI
Major: International Studies and Spanish
MC Activities: Singers, Victoriano, intramural soccer, Tae Kwon Do, Arabic Table
Fun Fact: I tap dance!

 

John Tudisco

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Massapequa, NY
Major: Civil Engineering
MC Activities: Intramural volleyball, flag football, soccer, dodgeball, Society for Women Engineers.
Fun Fact: I ranked 5th in New York state in speech and debate in my junior year of high school!

 

Christine Altenburger

Year: Junior
Hometown: Clifton Park, NY
Major: Civil Engineering | Minor: Business Management
MC Activities: Society of Women Engineers, New York Water and Environment Association, Lasallian Collegians, Gaelic Society, L.O.V.E. Program
Fun Fact: I am a beast at Dance Central for the Xbox Kinect!

 

Maya Astabie

Year: Freshman
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Major: Communication
MC Activities: Lasallian Student Leaders, The Quadrangle, Honors Enrichment Program
Fun Fact: When I grow up, my dream job would be to work at Lucky Magazine!