An exhibition of art created by displaced Ukrainian children has offered a unique opportunity for faculty in Antioch University’s Creative Arts Therapy programs to connect with an audience of students,…
A Single Mother’s Experience as it Intersects with Misogyny, Patriarchy, and Hegemonic Masculinity | Dissertation Watch
Heidi Sampson, a 2024 graduate of Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change, recently published her dissertation titled, An Internal and External Contextual Autoethnography of a Single Mother’s Experience as it Intersects with Misogyny, Patriarchy, and Hegemonic Masculinity.
A Q&A With Sally Johnstone About Joining Antioch’s Board of Governors
Sally M. Johnstone has spent her career improving the quality, accessibility, and affordability of post-secondary education for adults. She helped design and launch Western Governors University, which uses an innovative, competency-based education model that allows adult students to take advantage of the knowledge they already have to decrease the time it takes them to earn a degree.
With Collective Traumas Becoming More Common, One Leader Studies Their Impacts on Black Mental Health Practitioners
In 2018, Chanté Meadows stood on a TEDx stage and addressed a problem that’s central to her career: why isn’t mental health treated as being equally important as physical health? In this instance, she was speaking specifically about how this pattern affects the Black community that she’s part of. Meadows outlined stigmas she often heard associated with mental healthcare. Friends and neighbors would say, “I’m going to just go to Jesus and pray about it.”
For Kate Evarts, Relationships Are “The Key to Working Toward Social and Racial justice”
Kate Evarts incorporates the principles of social justice into every aspect of her work. This is a practice she has carried from her time earning a PsyD in Clinical Psychology at Antioch’s New England campus all the way to today, when she serves as Core Faculty and Director of Student Affairs in that same PsyD program.
For Emma Lombardi, Individualized Study Meant Listening to Her Ancestors
For Emma Lombardi, Individualized Study Meant Listening to Her Ancestors
As she picked up the phone to call the main office of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, Emma Lombardi felt restless and nervous. This was the first time she called the tribal offices for reasons other than logistics. Even more nerve-wracking, this was her first attempt to connect with a part of her heritage and culture that she felt estranged from…
Remembering Marva Cosby
Antioch University has lost a dear friend and colleague. Marva Cosby, an alum of our Midwest campus who served on the Antioch University Midwest Board of Trustees and later on…
Celebrating Women’s History 2024
This Women’s History Month, we want to highlight ten Antiochian women who, in their own way, are advocating for equity, diversity, and inclusion. Read profiles of the Chair of Antioch’s Board of Governors, a student bringing sex therapy to her Japanese-American community, a writer excavating her past, a documentary filmmaker helping others tell their stories, an educator empowering students, a therapist working on the problem of Black maternal mortality, a dean passionate about reaching underserved populations, and a mobility activist fighting for safer streets.