Student Story: Abdul Razak

Abdul Razak is one of several J-1 students who came to SRJC as part of the U.S. Department of State's Community College Initiative (CCI) grant program. His studied sustainable agriculture at SRJC for one year and returned to northwest Ghana with new knowledge to share. He has spent the past 2 years applying what he learned at SRJC to help educate farmers in his native country of Ghana become food secure and improve their lives.

SRJC Alum in International pastry competition

Santa Rosa Junior College Culinary Arts alumnus Robert Nieto is representing the US this week at a major international competition in France. The USA Pastry Team will compete in the Mondial des Arts Sucres (MDAS) in Paris. The team is composed of three pastry chefs: Oscar Ortega (coach, left, Wyoming), Rhonda Ashton (chef, center, Wyoming), and Robert Nieto (chef, right, California). They have intensively prepared for the grueling 2-day (19 hours) "sugar race" on Feb 5th and 6th.