La Reva Myles

SRJC African-American literature specialist inspires students to learn through life experience

James Baldwin. E.E. Cummings. Jackson Brown's "The Pretender." Colored People's Time. Comics. Science Fiction. These subjects are diverse, but Santa Rosa Junior College's new African-American literature specialist explores them all in his juggernaut English 1A class. Dr. Erik Atkinson, 50, teaches students to "find their writerly voice and to be comfortable in writing and thinking...

Native American Center Coordinator position announced at Indigenous Peoples' Day Gathering

Santa Rosa Junior College President Dr. Frank Chong and retired, returning adjunct instructor Dr. Brenda Flyswithhawks announced during SRJC's Indigenous People's Day celebration Oct. 11 that the JC will hire a Native American Center Coordinator for the Native American Center within the Santa Rosa campus' Intercultural Center.

Opinion: Live music fans, check your venue's COVID protocols before chasing that long-awaited...

With COVID-19 variants giving us false starts about when and how it's safe to get together again in large crowds to enjoy live music, reviewing health and safety regulations at live concerts has become a life or death matter. It's more important than ever to take a precautionary pause to consider the consequences of attending...

Why spend the big bucks? Digital media program delivers for less

Tanya Sierra's day starts much earlier than the beginning of the three digital media classes in which she serves as Peer Assisted Learning Specialist for Santa Rosa Junior College Film and Journalism Instructor Brian Antonson. As a PALS assistant, Sierra is responsible for helping Antonson teach students how to make movies in Media 20: Introduction...

Why not country music?

So you say you don't listen to country music? I've got a question for you: why not? If you don't respond right away, is it because you're unfamiliar with country music? Could it be that when country music is mentioned, everyone who hears it has a different definition based on age, life experience and...

Sound perspectives from the other end of the microphone

Amongst an eager audience, the dynamic duo of Patrushkha Mierwza and Mark Ulano laid out the importance of everything in filmmaking, from masterful work of directors and producers to more overlooked jobs like boom operator and sound mixer on March 27. Mierzwa and Ulano visited the intermediate digital filmmaking class at Santa Rosa Junior College's...

Remembering the fires one year later

Video: Housing after the Sonoma County Fires

Country living slide show