When Black children encounter racism in American schools, how can their parents advocate for them? This is a question that is both academic and personal for Mark McMillian.
Art and the Path to Healing
“I love the ways that the arts and social sciences can be brought together,” says Ángel L. Martínez, PhD, who teaches the course Systemic & Generational Trauma.
A Year In, Zoo Project Leads to Expanding Community Partnerships
“The question now is, how do we do this?” says Antioch University faculty member Dr. Kayla Cranston. Cranston is leading Antioch’s ongoing Co-Designing Conservation With (Not For) Communities project through…
Envisioning Justice in Ecotourism
In the 1980s, a new kind of travel was marketed to people in the global North—ecotourism. In the following decades, it’s grown into a $270 billion industry. Instead of staying…
Investigating the Gaps in Down Syndrome Care
When Nicole White’s daughter, Kate, was born and diagnosed with Down Syndrome, the first thing she did was look at the current research. “I found it received less funding than…
PsyD Chair Jude Bergkamp Joins APA Competencies Task Force to Address Historical Injustices
Jude Bergkamp, the Chair of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology at Antioch Seattle, was recently chosen for the prestigious Competencies Task Force of the American Psychological Association. Bergkamp sees this…
GSLC Graduate Shows a Collectivist Alternative to Institutional Inequities
“Returning to school, joining the world of higher education—that’s my revolutionary act against social injustice,” says Maria Teresa Chavez-Haroldson, a 2020 graduate of Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change. As…
GSLC Graduate Practices Generative Leadership and Diplomacy
Dr. Atim Eneida George has long felt the urgency of leadership. “I would take it back to my childhood,” she says. “Even though I was the youngest, I felt that…
Alum Uncovers Racial Dominance in Day-to-Day Professional Workplace Discourses
As a child, Cherie Bridges Patrick was aware of racial categories in American society. She understood that she and her family were racialized as Black, and she moved through her…
With a Podcast, Exploring Leadership Education in Times of Change
“What’s happening now makes us as leadership educators even more accountable,” says Lauren Bullock, a professor and podcast host, as she describes the pressures that she and others who teach…
Now Recognized by CAMFT, Antioch Continuing Education Expands Offerings to Therapists
Antioch has long been a leader in training therapists, but only this last year has it begun offering the official Continuing Education courses that practicing therapists must complete throughout their…
Antioch PhD Candidate Clara Fang Receives Switzer Fellowship for Work in Equity and Inclusion in the Climate Movement
This past summer, heavy rains flooded the city of Detroit, Michigan, where Clara Fang lives with her partner, their dog, and two cats. Her basement was flooded with nine inches…