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CERTIFICATE GRADUATES


Success Breeds Success: Our Graduates

Every day, graduates of the CIA's Baking and Pastry Arts Certificate Program are realizing their dreams. They're finding success in positions as diverse as pastry cook, pastry chef, assistant pastry chef, baker, corporate executive pastry chef, bakery owner, cake decorator, caterer, pastry chef-instructor, food stylist, and bistro owner.

And where are they working? In virtually every segment of the baking and pastry world—restaurants, resorts, commercial bakeries, cafés, research and development kitchens, small bakeries, magazine test kitchens, their own businesses…the list goes on.

Certificate Graduates are Leaders in the Field

There is an impressive record of success among professionals who hold a Baking and Pastry Arts Certificate from the CIA. Some shining examples:

  • Anne Baker (2002), pastry chef, Mustard's Grill, Yountville, CA and Cathy's Backstreet Kitchen, St. Helena, CA
  • Brooks Coulson (2001), owner, Dragonfly Cakes, Sausalito, CA
  • Deborah R. Fabry (1989), pastry chef, The Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, WV
  • Arica Maya Gibson (1996), pastry chef, ARAMARK Corporation, Wake Forest University Dining Services, Winston-Salem, NC
  • Angela Gilson (1997), pastry chef, Bellariva Restaurant & Bakery, Vail, CO
  • Duff Goldman (1998), TV personality, Food Network's "Ace of Cakes;" pastry chef/owner Charm City Cakes, Baltimore, MD
  • Ryan Malamud (2000), chef/proprietor, Brothers Bakery, Marble Falls, TX
  • Amie K. Minnick (1996), pastry chef, Artisan Bakers, Sonoma, CA
  • Anthony Mondello (1998), pastry cook, Audrey Claire Restaurant, Philadelphia, PA
  • Nina Schleifer-Swankie (1995), bakery supervisor, Demarest Farms, Hillsdale, NJ
  • Jack L. Spector (1989), pastry chef, ARAMARK Corporation, Clemson University Dining Services, Clemson, SC
  • Scott Vitulli (1995), corporate executive pastry chef/general manager, T2 Ventures, Princeton, NJ
  • Sherry Yard (1991), executive pastry chef, Spago Beverly Hills; 2004 James Beard Award, Outstanding Pastry Chef of the Year

While their career goals may vary, these accomplished professionals share a common foundation—their CIA education. As you progress through our proven, 30-week curriculum, you'll gain the practical skills that will prepare you to enter the field and build a foundation for future advancement. With your certificate in hand, you'll take your place among a long line of successful CIA graduates.

Follow Your Heart

Listen to that inner voice—do what you love for a living. Apply online today or call 707-967-2496 to arrange a tour of our beautiful Greystone campus in St. Helena, CA.

Opening Doors

You'll have a number of valuable resources at your disposal - The Office of Career Services at the college's main campus in Hyde Park, NY will help you take full advantage of your CIA education as you embark on your new career. A wide range of useful information will be at your fingertips, including extensive computer job listings on the eRecruiting Network, published regularly for CIA students and subscribing alumni. You will also be able to call upon the CIA's tremendous network of alumni all over the world, an incredible group of mentoring professionals who are acknowledged pacesetters in the industry.