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, who today serves as Program Director of P.S. ARTS, a nonprofit that brings arts education to over 30,000 public school students in the greater Los Angeles area.
Cool Course: Latinx/e Theories & Clinical Practice
Douglas Valdez grew up familiar with curandería, the traditional healing practices that his mother had learned as a child in Mexico. When he was sick, she would pull out an array of herbal tinctures and dapple his tongue with their bitter, dark liquid. When his skin got irritated, his mother spread tangerine peels on it—their aroma delicious and lingering.
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.
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…
Nature Is Not One Thing, Nor Binary
How a Nonbinary International Student Is Bringing Queer Theory to Environmental Studies
Nurturing Trust Through Food: Becky Elias’ Quest to Understand and Improve Our Food Systems
Becky Elias’s quest to understand and improve our food system has taken her from restaurant kitchens to food policy leadership
Cool Course: 5003: Foundations in Individualized Study
If you ever talk to a student, alum, or faculty member of Antioch’s Individualized Master of Arts, there is a high likelihood that they will bring up “FDN-5003: Foundations in Individualized Study.” This course, with its alphanumeric code that sounds like something from a Sci-Fi story, is much more than just another class.
Working Towards Justice Through Bilingual, Culturally Responsive Early Childhood Education
Samantha Carrillo is someone who really is embracing bilingual education not just in her work but across her life.
The Nonprofit Innovator Who Moved to Wartime Ukraine (But Kept Teaching Online)
It was a feeling more than a reason that compelled David Greco to pack his apartment into a storage unit and buy a one-way ticket to Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2023. The memories of crouching beneath his elementary school desk during nuclear drills amid heightened tensions between the United States and the former Soviet Union flashed back to him.
Mastered: Weaving Together Art, Expression, and Wellness
As a third grader, Marc Stallion stood in his closet, the one place he knew he could find privacy. There, by the coats, where it was calm and quiet, he pulled paper napkin after paper napkin out of his pockets.