Nasser Samedy joined the Admissions Office in the spring of 2014. He is the Senior Director of Admissions and the Director of Middle School Admissions. Nasser brings to the Admissions staff a deep understanding of human nature and a love of children and education. The son of Haitian immigrants, Nasser grew up in Queens, NY, in a musical family.

 

After attending Queens College, Nasser decided to pursue his music dream. He lived in Osaka, Japan, for two years and used that as the springboard for 20-plus years of work in the music industry. His experiences included multiple world tours, live appearances at the Grammy Awards, World Music Awards, and American Music Awards. During this time, he also participated in multiple Amnesty International concerts, the focus of which was raising funds to help children across the world.

 

Nasser’s formal music career transitioned when he married Marthe Salomon-Samedy, an Artist, Author, and Adjunct Professor at William Paterson University in New Jersey. In order to be home and available to his family, he worked as a Regional Sales and Services Manager in the private sector for 15 years, interviewing, mentoring, training new hires, and facilitating orientation classes for new managers as well as working with Human Resources to develop new strategies for training and developing employees. 

 

Nasser and Marthe are the proud parents of Malachi Samedy ’22, a Dwight-Englewood School lifer who came to D-E in 2013. A multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, Malachi was named by the Huffington Post as one of the 12 top musical prodigies under the age of 12 in the country and has performed nationally, including on Broadway. He debuted at Boston Symphony Hall alongside The Boston Pops Orchestra and has been invited to the White House to perform for the President. Nasser’s passion for music and for giving back has been passed to Malachi, who now regularly performs at benefits in support of children worldwide.

 

Nasser is happy to be a part of the D-E Admissions Office. He believes deeply in the power of education, loves children, and believes that helping to open the door to a D-E education is an honor and a privilege. His positive personality leaves everyone he meets feeling better than when he met them.

 

Nasser can be reached at samedn@d-e.org.