Meet Our Faculty Members
Janis Gloystein Gross taught computers graphics in Australia for four months, and has freelanced for companies all over the Bay Area. Now she is enjoying the Sonoma County life and has just started a web design business named Mustard Flower Design so she can be here all the time.
There's a story behind that name. Several years ago she took her first digital photograph of a field of mustard flowers. She was really taken my the vast expense of flowers blooming along the highway. Entering the photo in the Mustard Festival Photography Contest, not knowing what a popular subject they were, she didn't win or sell anything, but had fun anyway.
She later found out that the flowers reflect all the sunlight back up to the bottom of the vines, so the grapes can catch more rays. Not only were they beautiful, but they were also a necessary part of nature's interconnected plan.
Jessica Gross is the president of the Santa Rosa Junior College Social Dance Club. She plans monthly swing dances at Chops, Ellington, Odd Fellows Hall and other venues.
Her claim to fame is that she is the oldest daughter of Janis Gloystein, who helps her do all the advertising and promotion.
She also works on campus at the Tutoring Center in the library. She does a lot of dancing to blues music, attending dancing conferences and also teaching swing and blues dancing.
She has also been in many drama plays, had an art show when she was 11 years old, and went to France for a student exchange over spring break.
Karissa Gross goes by the nickname of "Riz", and is a junior at the Santa Rosa High School, located next door to the Santa Rosa Junior College Campus. She performs in the Symphony Choir and the Women's Ensemble, and has been studying drama and voice for many years.
She is taking a German class at the Junior College. She has a wonderful Golden Retreiver dog named Iraina. She likes alternative music and Shakespeare, and she likes to hang out with her friends at Chops.