When Kelly Giudice of Framingham, MA graduated from Algonquin Regional High School in 2009 she thought her grades weren’t high enough to be accepted into college and that the cost was out of her reach, so she joined the workforce. Kelly worked full-time alongside her husband at Trader Joe’s when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. “We took a step back during that time, and I wanted to change my career and study to become a personal trainer,” said Kelly.

Juan Paolo Mesa, a native of Colombia, was five years old when he moved with his family to Boston, MA and then

James Hilton, a MassBay Community College alumnus, explains how some students know exactly what they want to do after high school and where they’re going to college, but that wasn’t his experience.

Jack Cutone attended Quinsigamond Community College and went on to receive a B.S. Degree from Worcester State University in both Economics and Business Administration. He received his MBA from Anna Maria College and a Senior Executive Certificate from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. He was the Managing Partner of 1031 Exchange, United Asset Trading Company, LLC.

Dr. David Podell, President of MassBay Community College:

Deborah Georgopoulos is MassBay Community College’s Executive Assistant to the VP/CFO, Office of the VP of Finance & Administration’s Office.

Andrew Wrobel always knew he wanted to be a teacher, but the uncertainty of a teacher’s salary steered him instead to a career in economics before he eventually found his way to the front of the classroom at MassBay Community College.

The students in his personal finance and macro- and micro-economics classes are lucky he decided to switch gears, and they now enjoy the benefits of his wisdom gleaned from years of work on Wall Street. He also provides his classes with practical counsel of how to pay off six-figure educational loans, like he had to do.

Alison McCarty, MassBay Community College Director of Admissions, explains that for someone who has never been to college or who comes from a family who has never sent anyone to college, just walking through the front door at a college can b

“I really enjoy what I do. I love teaching and learning. My job gives me an opportunity to go out and see the new technological developments that people are researching and working on right now and bring those new concepts and ideas back to my students. I get to see what the future might hold and then talk to the students about those advances.”

Meredith Watts

Meredith Watts, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at MassBay Community College, loved teaching math from the time she