Jennifer Carlin-Goldberg,
Mathematics

Education: B.A. in mathematics from Sonoma State University, M.A. in mathematics from San Francisco State University and Ph.D. in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz.

Experience: 10 years of part-time teaching and vocational experience at Foothill College, San Jose State University, UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco State University.

Most interesting thing about you that students wouldn’t suspect: “Probably that I am a graduate of SRJC. I grew up as a farm kid in Petaluma, raising sheep, and it wasn’t until the SRJC that I really came into my own academically. The math department here was critical to that.”

Impression of SRJC/Santa Rosa: “Wonderfully friendly place. I have felt most welcome here at the SRJC.”

Favorite Joke: “There are three kinds of mathematicians in the world, those who can count and those who can’t.”

If you weren’t teaching at SRJC, you would be: “Teaching at both my old jobs in the South Bay, San Jose State and Foothill College, and still living in Santa Cruz.”

Advice for students: “Have a positive attitude and be the most hardworking and reliable person you know. That will get you so much farther in life than anything else I can think of. Treating every job, including your job as a student, in a professional manner will also do you well in both the short and long run.”