{"id":2777,"date":"2025-04-09T16:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:12:36","slug":"meet-alum-nicholas-fasano-14-director-government-community-relations-at-metropolitan-transportation-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/2025\/04\/09\/meet-alum-nicholas-fasano-14-director-government-community-relations-at-metropolitan-transportation-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Alum Nicholas Fasano &#8217;14, Director, Government &amp; Community Relations at Metropolitan Transportation Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2778\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/1692900435426-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/1692900435426-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/1692900435426-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/1692900435426-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/1692900435426-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/1692900435426.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Name:<\/b> Nicholas Fasano<\/p>\n<p><b>Class Year: <\/b>2014<\/p>\n<p><b>Organization Name: <\/b>Metropolitan Transportation Authority<\/p>\n<p><b>Title:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Director, Government and Community Relations<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>1. In one sentence, what does your job entail?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I am the main point of contact for all Federal, State, Local elected officials and municipalities on Long Island and in parts of NYC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>2. What planned and unplanned events connected you to your industry and your first employer after Holy Cross? How did you learn\/decide it was a good fit for you?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>HC did not really factor into connecting me with my current employer but it did equip me with the tools of discernment necessary to determine that being here is a good fit for me!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>3. What were you involved in when you were on campus?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rugby, Study Abroad, SPUD, Communion Ministry<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>4. What was your major and how did it affect your career decisions?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>History. I had a general sense that I wanted to work in Government but I think my major in History gave me a broad understanding of the impact government&#8217;s have on how societies succeed and fail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>5. What are one or two skills that you developed at Holy Cross that you use in your work?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Time management and critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>6. What advice do you have for students on campus today?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Take advantage of everything that HC has to offer! College is a time for discovery and the best way to do that is by trying new things that you will almost certainly not have the opportunity to get involved in after school!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Nicholas Fasano Class Year: 2014 Organization Name: Metropolitan Transportation Authority Title: Director, Government and Community Relations &nbsp; 1. In one sentence, what does your job entail?\u00a0 I am the main point of contact for all Federal, State, Local elected officials and municipalities on Long Island and in parts of NYC. &nbsp; 2. What planned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/2025\/04\/09\/meet-alum-nicholas-fasano-14-director-government-community-relations-at-metropolitan-transportation-authority\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet Alum Nicholas Fasano &#8217;14, Director, Government &amp; Community Relations at Metropolitan Transportation Authority&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,41],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alum-feature","tag-career-community-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/careerplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}