The MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media Program hosted a conversation with award-winning writer and producer Felicia D. Henderson. After beginning her writing career in sitcoms like Family Matters, Moesha,…
MFA Chair Featured on “The Creative Community 2.0”
Chair of the MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media Program Ross Brown was featured on TV Santa Barbara for the show The Creative Community 2.0 with David Starkey. Ross talks…
Enacting Policies for Real Change: Kathy Hoffman
Kathy Hoffman was slated for a retail career at Nordstrom, until a domestic violence incident changed her life. When Hoffman became deeply involved with her case’s legal process in the…
Victoria Chang Awarded a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship
Victoria Chang, Chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program was awarded a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship for 2020. The Lannan Residency Fellowship provides uninterrupted writing time for poets, writers, essayists,…
Using Poetry as Vehicle for Change: MFA candidate, Margaret Kean
For Margaret Kean, poetry has always been a part of her. But finding the courage to write and share it with the world has taken a long time. The MFA…
Harry Alston Jr.: Making a Career Out of Changing People’s Lives
Dr. Harry Alston Jr., a 2010 graduate of the Leadership and Change program, has a personal mission: to develop and promote programs and initiatives that positively impact and empower individuals,…
AUS Counseling Department Sponsors and Presents at the National ACES Conference
The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) is the premier organization dedicated to quality education and supervision of counselors in all work settings. ACES members are counselors, supervisors, graduate students,…
Antioch University Santa Barbara Introduces “Keep Locals Local” Initiative
Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB) recently received a $5000 grant from Wells Fargo, the first in a series of grants sought to support the “Keep Locals, Local” Initiative. AUSB will…
Dr. Dean Hammer Publishes an Article in APA Journal
Dr. Dean Hammer, Affiliate Faculty in AUNE’s PsyD program, had an article Cultivating Soulfulness in Psychotherapy published in APA Journal: Spirituality in Clinical Practice. 2019, Vol. 6, No. 2, 139–143. “This reflection highlights…
Dr. Mariaimeé Gonzalez Publishes Book “Social Justice and Advocacy in Counseling: Experiential Activities for Teaching”
After years of extensive research on social justice and advocacy, Mariaimeé Gonzalez, PhD, LPC, core faculty in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program and coordinator of the multicultural concentration, and her colleagues…
Jane Paul Publishes Article on The Global Youth Climate Strike
Students and young people around the world led the Global Youth Climate Strike on July 20th of this year. While a robust climate activist movement has existed for many years,…
In Bloom Inspires Nature-Based Early Childhood Education and a Love for the Earth
The more opportunities that children have to be outdoors when they are young, the more they will fall in love with the earth and want to protect it. That was…