King’s Hosts Two Cents with Brian Brenburg and Bracey Fuenzalida

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To begin the spring semester, King’s hosted its first Two Cents event on Tuesday, Feb. 1. Sam Klozik, Director of Student Events on the Council, moderated the event, featuring guests Brian Brenberg, Executive Vice President and Associate Professor of Business, and Bracey Fuenzalida, Director of Information Technology. 

The event covered multiple topics ranging from sports, New York City and family life.  

This lighthearted event started by asking the two speakers about their hometown — Brenberg from Wyoming, Minn., and Fuenzalida from Brooklyn, N.Y. 

“If you could snap your fingers and be good at one sport, which sport would it be?” Klozik asked.

“Golf. Back in the day, I could play football and soccer, the rough and tumble sports, but nowadays that the bones hurt, golf is definitely the way to go,” Fuenzalida said. 

“I’m too old for it, but I wish I could be a great gymnast. My wife was a gymnast, and she can still do all this stuff, but I was firmly planted on the ground,” Brenberg said.  

Along the lines of sports Klozik asked, “What is your favorite memory as an athlete?”

“I played sports growing up with this one kid, Joe, through middle and high school,” Brenberg said. “Later in high school, he transferred to another school in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. We both went to college for football and rival colleges in Minnesota. In our senior year, we were both starters, he was a quarterback and I was a wide receiver. The last time I was ever going to play against him, at home, I was in the end zone kinda doing the toes, I caught it, ‘touchdown,’ we win the game!”

The next question posed was, “What is your favorite NYC neighborhood to spend time in?”

“I love spending time in the village, specifically Washington Square Park. I had a job there, right across the street from NYU for a while, for about six years, and in that park, you pretty much saw everything,” Fuenzalida said. “I pretend to be a part-time philosopher, so I enjoy my time there.”

Lastly, Klozik ended the event by talking with the speakers about their family life, asking, “We know kids say the darndest things; what is something one of your kids has said that just got you?”

Brenberg answered, “I asked my kids, ‘if you had to describe me, how would you?’ I thought I’d try this out with my kids, so I asked my daughter. She said, ‘he uses a lot of hair products.’”

“In our house, we do “Who Am I?” with different books and stories in the Bible,” Fuenzalida said. “One of the days we turn it over to the kids, and Isaiah, my son, says, ‘Who am I? When Moses went up to the mountain, I was left down below and I created a silver moose.’ The roar at the table, to this day, is something we’ll never forget.”