TKC Letters Project
For decades, The King’s College has equipped, challenged, and blessed the individual in its community. Here are a few of their stories.
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We are deeply grateful for your continued prayers for The King’s College.
In our last update, we shared that we had launched an expansive effort to identify strategic partners with a mutual vision for excellence in Christian higher education in New York City. Despite a thorough search for such a partner, the Board has been unable to secure the support necessary to present a plan to resume operations by the July 15, 2025, deadline granted to us by the New York State Education Department.
Therefore, we must announce that The King’s College will remain closed permanently and that we will begin to dissolve it under the guidance of the relevant state authorities.
The Board wishes to thank the many generations of students, alumni, faculty, staff, parents, and friends who have formed the rich fabric of the King’s community for almost 90 years. Your commitment to truth, faith, and academic excellence has left a lasting legacy, and we trust that God will continue to use this community for the glory of His Kingdom for many years to come. While King’s may be closing, we know its legacy will live on.
Please know that we will explore ways to honor the King’s legacy as we continue our work.
For our alumni: Alumni seeking their transcripts may continue to obtain them here. The Alumni Association is a separately established organization and will be able to remain active in the future.
Further information will be provided here as it becomes available.
Wrestle with foundational ideas.
What is true? How should we live together and govern ourselves? How can we manage our resources to advance human flourishing? Within a core curriculum of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, gain a Christian framework to understand history’s enduring questions.
See AcademicsPrepare to shape your world.
The true purpose of college is more than the green lawn and weightier than a framed piece of paper. It’s about preparing you for the world you participate in during and after college.
At King’s you’ll be challenged to grow, with a business casual dress code, professors who set the bar high, and peers who come from everywhere and are up to everything.
Jessica Lee
The King’s College 2014, J.D. Fordham University
Jessica’s legal expertise has led to a range of positions in the field, from judicial law clerk to Chief Judge Thomas E. Johnston in the Southern District of West Virginia, to Assistant Solicitor General for the State of West Virginia. While still early in her career, she’s had the opportunity to intervene in injustice, such as by advocating for the First Amendment free-speech rights of Christians to publicly express their faith in the face of a discriminatory city ordinance. Jessica credits King’s for preparing her well for law school and for a career giving voice to the voiceless: “King’s helped me understand that ‘I can’t’ is never an option and that God has planted the will and the way inside of us to go the distance in whatever field we’re called to.”
Kellen DiStefano
The King’s College 2008; M.B.A. Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
After graduating from King’s, Kellen worked for eight years at PEI Funds, a New York investment fund. He then received his M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and has continued to move forward in the world of business. He values the politics, philosophy, and economics core that King’s requires as well as its setting in New York City. “I learned how to think critically and communicate clearly, and I sharpened my skills working alongside incredibly talented people in the City.”
Aaron Craig
The King’s College 2010; Filmmaker and Co-Founder of We Are Films
The co-founder of video production company We Are Films, Aaron has directed videos for Sufjan Stevens, the Cold War Kids, Nike, Andy Mineo, Microsoft, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Squarespace, RedBull, and many more. He also had a short film shown at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France. Aaron says, “We’re always striving for excellence, but in a way that’s different: no shortcuts, no excuses, and no taking advantage of people. The film industry has a reputation for being cutthroat, backstabbing, and grueling. It’s true—especially in NYC—but it doesn’t have to be that way.”
Elisa Lambert
The King’s College 2014; Measuring and Advancing Human Flourishing
“At first glance, you’d think evaluation and the humanities would have little to do with each other. Yet, both look at how people are shaped and influenced,” says Elisa Lambert, who took her Media, Culture, and the Arts degree from King’s into work at The Bowery Mission, where she created and evaluated program structures to enable teams to serve the community. More recently, she pursued a double master’s degree in Sociology and Public Administration at the University of Colorado. “There are some wounds which will never heal, at least in this life,” Elisa says, “But I want to protect who I can, do what I can, and heal what I can, anxiously awaiting Christ’s return.”
King’s at a Glance
The King’s mission is for our alumni and faculty to transform society through principled service in the institutions of culture.
97%
of King’s alumni were employed or in graduate school within six months of graduation
69%
of our last graduating class works in New York City
87%
of graduates completed at least one internship as students
Nondiscriminatory Policy As To Students
The King’s College admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.