One of the best things that can happen when you are a junior employee at an organization is when a more senior colleague takes you under their wing, mentors you,…
Coaching Foster Girls to Thrive
For many parents, watching their child graduate from college is a peak life experience—and all the more so if that child attended the same college as the parent once did….
A Post-Mudslide Career Change Leads to Joy
Sometimes the things that cause us to change our lives are as small as a poem or a nagging thought. For other people—for instance, Jennifer Rapp, a recent graduate of…
Therapist Champions Somatic Experiencing Modality to Heal Trauma
“I’ll tell you a story,” says Sergio Ocampo, a Marriage and Family Therapist who is passionate about the Somatic Experiencing approach to healing trauma. The story is about Dr. Peter…
Disability Activist Joins Key Psychology Committees
“There’s not a lot of psychologists with disabilities,” says Dr. Craig Kramer. As a psychologist with a speech disability—he stutters—Dr. Kramer can see quite clearly how few others like him…
Cool Course: Educating Black Girls to Thrive
When Dr. Y. Falami Devoe was thinking of a course to teach in Antioch’s online Master of Arts in Individualized Studies program, she wanted to center her “passion, research, and…
Training Model Invented at AU Seattle Finds Big Audience
How can student therapists get the training—and training hours—that they need to graduate and move towards being licensed, when a global pandemic has shut down so many training sites? A…
The Three C’s – Laurien Alexandre Captures Three Principles Underlying Antioch Programs
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, it was easy to say what made many of Antioch’s programs different from those offered by other schools: an emphasis on social justice, on strong community,…
Love of Living Beings Leads to Environmental Activism and Education
As a child, Dawn Murray walked the beaches of Santa Barbara after big storms looking for kelp holdfasts that had washed up on the sand. When she found one, she…
Reforming City Planning from the Intersection of Art, Activism, and Community
Tom Borrup lives in an apartment in the tower of a vast, converted 1920’s Sears building on East Lake Street in Minneapolis. Over the last decade this urban aerie has…
Podcast Opens New Way to Accomplish Core Literary Mission
“It’s not just going to be a podcast about book authors,” says Victoria Chang, the poet and chair of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Antioch University Los Angeles,…
Fostering Racial Justice and Transformative Change, GSLC Launches Certificate Programs
From ongoing racial oppression to a changing climate and an uncertain economy, today’s challenges are requiring leaders in all walks of life to put in the work to improve themselves…