CCO Area Directors
Nicole Shirk serves as Area Director for Greater Pittsburgh, supervising staff in Beaver, Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties. She develops new positions within the area and places new staff, and she seeks to maintain thriving relationships with partnering institutions.
Nicole has known about the CCO all her life, since her parents were among the CCO’s earliest campus workers at the University of Pittsburgh. She attended Wake Forest University in North Carolina, outside the CCO’s geographical boundaries, but she returned to Pittsburgh with a few friends every February for the Jubilee conference.
After graduating from Wake Forest, Nicole joined CCO staff in 2002 to minister to student athletes at Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with Shadyside Presbyterian Church.
She strongly believes in the CCO’s mission of transforming college students to transform the world. “If we succeed by the grace of God in fulfilling our core purpose, it will make all the difference,” Nicole says. “Seeing lives and the world changed is an amazing gift.”
Nicole and her husband, Terry, live in the Brighton Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh with their son, Caleb, and they worship at Church of the Ascension.
Nicole can be reached at nshirk@ccojubilee.org.
Everybody on staff at the CCO raises their own financial support, including the area directors. You can support Nicole or anybody else on our area director team by contributing online.