Staff

Jeff Jenkins, Campus Director

Jeff is a recent resident of Sacramento, originally from the Louisville, KY area. Prior to work in the Sacramento Diocese, he served as the Director of the Mader Learning Center at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in southern Indiana from 2010-2018. During that time, he also served as a Catholic speaker and catechist in the Archdiocese of Louisville and Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Saint Meinrad is his alma mater, having earned a Masters in Catholic Thought and Life in 2008. Prior to his work at Saint Meinrad, he held youth and young adult positions at the New Albany Deanery Catholic Youth Ministries office (2009), the Newman Catholic Student Center at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (2005-2008), and Catholic Christian Outreach in Vancouver, BC (2004). He also has a Masters in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (2003) and Bachelors in Organizational Communication from Murray State University (1999). He is the proud father of Arianne (age 9) and enjoys songwriting and playing guitar.

Angela Rubang, Programs Director

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Angela has been a member and youth leader in the Sacramento diocese for many years and played a role in developing the St. Catherine of Siena Young Adult Ministry and the Solano Deanery of Young Adults. While in college at a very liberal secular school, she was challenged on her faith and realized that she also had many questions that she could not answer. Inspired to search for truth, she studied Philosophy and Religion, and it was then that she became convicted of the fullness of Truth that was entrusted to the Church. Since then, Angela had been dedicated to the call of the New Evangelization and has served as a Catholic school Religion and Theology teacher, master catechist, confirmation coordinator, and youth and young adult minister.

Fr. Raj Derivera, Chaplain

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Father Raj Derivera is a priest of the Diocese of Sacramento currently assigned as the Parochial Vicar of St. Lawrence in Sacramento and chaplain at the Newman Center of Sacramento. Father Raj was born in San Diego, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Vallejo. He completed his graduate studies at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California in 2016, with a Master of Divinity and an STB in Theology, and his undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Literature at Mt. Angel Seminary and University in St. Benedict, Oregon in 2011. His Master's Thesis is on Beauty and Evangelization and his undergrad capstone was on Film and Evangelization. His favorite saints are St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Pope St. John Paul II, St. Peter, and the Holy Martyrs of every generation. He loves all the feasts that the Church celebrates, because they often involve three of his favorite things: the Liturgy, parties, and food.