How do you make a career around the thing you love? For Liz Foote, the second part was easy, there was no question what it was she loved. She grew…
PsyD Core Faculty Helps Students Challenge Power Structures and Bi+ Stigma
Rachel Chickerella grounds her teaching philosophy in authenticity, humor, and pragmatism. In her work as Core Faculty in the PsyD in Clinical Psychology on Antioch’s New England Campus, she emphasizes…
Mid-Career MFA Leads a Documentarian Back to Fiction—and to the Stage
In April of 2023, the playwright and documentarian Dara Padwo-Audick made an ambitious request: that her community give $20,000 to underwrite staging her play, Onion Skin, as part of the…
Coalition for the Common Good’s New Director of Education is Here to Learn
Recently, Sue Constable participated in the Antioch Doctor of Education program’s online residency. She was there in her new role as Executive Director of Education Programs for the Coalition for…
Lesley Jackson Has a Vision for Education that Embraces Complexity and Self-Care
Before self-care became a buzzword appropriated by consumerist culture and leisurewear, the concept was developed and spread by Black feminist activists, including the poet Audre Lorde, who wrote, “Caring for…
We Are the Storytellers: How MFA Alum Ligiah Villalobos Is Changing Film and TV Writing
Ligiah Villalobos Rojas was an executive at The Walt Disney Company, where part of her job was to review scripts written by fellows in the Writing Fellowship Program, giving each…
Tiffany Owens: Collaborating with Others to Change the Arts Education Landscape
Throughout her life, the artist, educator, and Antioch alum Tiffany Owens has been deeply influenced by spaces on the borders that straddle divides. “I am a person who has always lived in liminal spaces—racially, socioeconomically, educationally, and between artistry and bureaucracy,” explains Owens…
A Founding Dean with a New Vision for Healthcare Education
Everyone in nursing has a story that changes them. Diane White’s happened at the Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta in the nineties. While she was working the night shift in the trauma unit, a police officer was brought in who had been shot in the head.
Empowering Educators Through Trauma-Informed Education
One tool she immediately found useful was Trauma-Informed Education, a framework and practice that specifically emphasizes supporting students who have experienced trauma while making the classroom environment caring and accepting for all. For Venet, this and other equity-based approaches became central to her work as an educator and, increasingly, a thought leader in education. These widening circles of interest led her to return to school—she graduated in 2014 from Antioch University’s MEd for Experience Educators.
Advancing Healthcare for the Common Good with Stephanie Fox
Sitting in a lecture hall in 2007, one thing Stephanie Fox didn’t want to hear when she started studying to be a therapist was that many people leave the field after 18 months. “I experienced that as quite shocking,” she says. Just a few months into a three year program, the math wasn’t adding up to her if that was true. At the time, she wondered, “If I’m going to be in school longer than I might actually be in the field, how is this worth it?”
David Lawrence Named Dayton Public Schools Next Superintendent
“Two days ago, I made a decision to send 15,000 people home,” says David Lawrence. There was a tornado on the horizon, but still, calling off class for an entire school district was a hard decision to make. Lawrence, a graduate of the PhD in Leadership and Change program and the new superintendent of Dayton Ohio Public Schools, had to consider the impact on students, parents, and the staff that he now leads.
In Bhutan, Collaborating to Ethically Preserve an Indigenous Bioculture
In 2017, Dawn Murray, a Professor in the Environmental Studies Department and Director of the BS in Environmental Studies, Sustainability, and Sciences, traveled to the Kingdom of Bhutan by invitation from the Monpa people to collaborate with them to document the knowledge of their last community healer, Ap Tawla. Ap Tawla, who was in his 80s, feared that his death would mark the extinction of much of the Monpa people’s collective wisdom, which like a braid reaching back in time, connects them with their ancestors.