Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one NNU faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Michelle Kuykendall, our staff profile for Winter 2025.
NAME: Michelle Kuykendall
PROFESSION: Executive Assistant to the President
HOMETOWN: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Fun Fact About You: I am a kidney donor.
Favorite Joel (& Nikki) Memory So Far: I appreciate the example they set for placing family first.
Favorite Thing About Joel (& Nikki): Over the last 25 years (how long we both have been at NNU), I deeply appreciate and respect the way Joel lives out his faith, puts his beliefs in our Lord God first and lives that out through service.
NNU students frequently express that we do college different. How do you believe NNU does college different? Many keep saying this—but we do care for our students. We are invested in seeing this place succeed.
Michelle Kuykendall has been Joel’s Executive Assistant since August 2018.
