MCC Daily Tribune

Meet Members of the Class of 2023!

MCC's newest graduates are poised to make an impact. Learn how some of these graduates will be applying their MCC education to the local workforce and to advanced studies at area colleges. Starting May 12 through today (May 19), several Class of 2023 members are featured in the Daily Tribune and Student Tribune. The success of our graduates keeps MCC inspiring every day. #MCC2023

Kay Wilkoff

A full-time Monroe Community College student, Kay Wilkoff is a 35-year-old “retired” social worker with a background in child protective work and a bachelor’s degree.

“With dreams to own a home and have more financial stability in planning for the future, like many families during the past three years we felt life shift,” she said. “We experienced insecurities and we dreamed of a work-life balance for our growing family.”

With renewed hope and aspirations, she enrolled in MCC’s optical systems technology program in fall 2021.

“I heard about MCC's optical systems technology program from a neighbor,” said Kay, who became a full-time, stay-at-home mother after moving to Brighton from Colorado in 2014. “I chose the optics field after hearing about the 100 percent job placement with so many local and national companies seeking more optical technicians. The optical systems technology degree enables a rewarding career that makes good money with benefits. MCC created a pathway for me to explore my STEM interest and channel my career aspirations into a real and rewarding career.”

While at MCC, Kay was a recipient of four scholarship awards and was consistently named to the dean’s list with a perfect GPA.

At Commencement, her biggest supporters will be cheering her on. She and husband Ephram are foster, adoptive and biological parents to four children ages 17, 10, 5 and 2 and have parented more than 25 children over the past decade.

Photo caption: Portrait of MCC graduating student Kay Wilkoff wearing gold hoop earrings and a black blazer over a black top.

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Hency Yuen-Eng
Community Relations
05/19/2023