New Full-Time Faculty for Fall 2025

Kaitlin C. Maggiore 

Lecturer | Speech

Ms. Kaitlin C. Maggiore has joined Kingsborough Community College as a full-time lecturer in the communications and performing arts department after two decades of teaching in various roles at the college.  

Passionate about working with students eager to strengthen their voices, the Brooklyn native will teach several sections of “Effective Public Speaking” (SPE 21) this fall and winter, one of her favorite courses. “In a public speaking class, you are not only teaching students presentation skills, you are also helping them claim their voice in the world,” she shared. “This is a tool that will serve them as they move through job interviews, relationships, leadership roles, and countless other areas in their lives where they may need to advocate for themselves.” 

She feels it’s a privilege to watch students as they move through the semester. “They begin as hesitant and apprehensive speakers and transform into confident communicators who are capable of commanding a room.”  

Maggiore began teaching at KCC in 2005 as a College for Kids instructor before securing a position as an adjunct. She said she grew up nearby and saw firsthand what an asset the College was to the neighborhood. “Kingsborough Community College is a special institution that drew me in immediately. The urban educational environment radiates determination,” she noted. “Identifying this college as a ‘community’ college is accurate because everyone here works together for the common goal of student advancement.”  

She earned her bachelor’s degree in speech-language pathology and audiology from Iona College and is completing a master’s in disability services in higher education. As part of that program, she is interning with KCC’s Access-Ability Center to gain hands-on experience. “I want to intimately get to know the workings of the office and students that it serves so that I may take that knowledge and foster better connections,” she said.  

Outside of work, Maggiore spends most of her spare time with her two sons. “Jack is 13 and a baseball player, and Brady is 11 and a soccer player, so much of my free time is spent at fields for games and practices,” she said. “That is the season of life we are in currently, and I am soaking up every second while it lasts.”