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Author: Lauren Arienzale

Lauren Arienzale is a PsyD student at Antioch New England. She's a poet, former fruit farmer, and lover of all things whimsical and chaotic. Lauren and her cat, Ollie, live happily behind a Western Massachusetts corn field.
Shonda Buchanan
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    • Creative Writing

With New Poetry Collection, MFA Alum Shonda Buchanan Honors Nina Simone

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • May 20, 2025
  • 6 minute read

When Shonda Buchanan was in her twenties, she had a dream of writing a book of poems about singer, classical pianist, and Civil Rights activist Nina Simone, but the prospect…

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    • Environmental Studies

Seven Alumni Working for Food Justice

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • May 9, 2025
  • 11 minute read

Across all its schools and programs, experiential, hands-on learning is at the heart of an Antioch education. This rings particularly true for the Environmental Studies Department based on Antioch’s New…

A group of people stands together in front of a wall displaying various pictures.
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    • Environmental Studies

Exhibit Celebrates 60 Years of Antioch Alumni Community Engagement in New England

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • May 1, 2025
  • 3 minute read

In the 60 years that Antioch University has had a campus in New England, thousands of students and alumni have passed through its doors—and then back out into their communities,…

Student created sign that says, The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Vote with a checkmark.
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    • Education

“I’m Going to Vote One Day”: AW4D and Kimberly Hardy Kickstart Civic Engagement With Mississippi Middle Schoolers 

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • March 10, 2025
  • 4 minute read

Kimberly Hardy had recently been promoted from adjunct to core faculty in Antioch University’s EdD program when she heard about a new initiative called Antioch Works for Democracy, a multi-month…

A diverse group of individuals gathered in front of the building site where the future Monadnock Co-op structure will be built.
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    • Environmental Studies

60 Years of Community Involvement: Celebrating the Alums Who Started Monadnock Food Co-op

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • February 14, 2025
  • 6 minute read

Today, the Monadnock Food Co-op is a longstanding hub of activity in downtown Keene. Located centrally, just off Main Street, the Co-op is a favorite local spot not only for…

Antioch MFA Program's Antioch Works For Democracy Initiative, Poetry is Democracy, was co-hosted by Program Chair Lisa Locascio Nighthawk, Core Poetry Faculty Cathy Linh Che, and Teaching Faculty Alistair McCartney. Six distinguished poets from the MFA student and alumni community—Jonathan Chou, Jessica Abughattas, Elena Karina Byrne, Shonda Buchanan, Grant Chemidlin, and Leonora Simonovis—read original poems responding to the theme, as well as selected poems by beloved poets. The readers also discussed their creative and research process for this event, the interface of the poetic and the political, the function of poetry in a just and inclusive democracy, and how poetry can question and expand democratic vistas.
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    • Creative Writing

With “Poetry is Democracy” Event, Antioch’s MFA Brings Art to an Election Year

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • January 28, 2025
  • 4 minute read

Last fall, the Antioch MFA in Creative Writing led an initiative known as Poetry Is Democracy that commissioned new poems from six working poets and then brought them and the…

A header image composed of a headshot of Cathy Linh Che and a headshot of Viet Thanh Nguyen
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    • Creative Writing

“Poems Cost Nothing Except the Poet’s Life”: Antioch Hosts Conversation About Democracy Between Two Vietnamese American Writers 

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • December 13, 2024
  • 4 minute read

The Antioch MFA in Creative Writing recently hosted a conversation about democracy, war, and identity between the writer and scholar Viet Thanh Nguyen—author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer—and the…

Hands and one hand holding a bullhorn with the typed letters, The power is in your hands!
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    • Leadership

Panel on Arts, Culture, and Democracy Sparks Generative Conversation 

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • December 12, 2024
  • 4 minute read

Six artists, scholars, and activists from a wide range of disciplines recently gathered for a panel broadcast over Zoom where they discussed the interplay between democracy and the arts. The…

Several people gathered around a man who is speaking, showing interest and engagement in the discussion.
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    • Nursing & Health Professions

Antioch Launches Multidisciplinary and Innovative MS in Allied Health

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • October 22, 2024
  • 3 minute read

This fall semester, Antioch University is welcoming the inaugural class of the new MS in Allied Health—the first new program to launch as a result of the partnership between Antioch,…

Antioch University staff hosting a table for voting. Table has a green cloth, with swag, such as T-shirts on the table.
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    • University

Voter Table on New England Campus Registers and Informs Students and Community Members 

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • October 18, 2024
  • 3 minute read

With the 2024 elections fast approaching, staff at Antioch University’s New England location have set up a voter table to register provide students, staff, and faculty with information and resources…

Sue Constable
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    • University

Coalition for the Common Good’s New Director of Education is Here to Learn 

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • August 22, 2024
  • 4 minute read

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…

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    • Counseling, Psychology, & Therapy

Embodying Psychoanalytic Practice: New England PsyD Department Well-Represented at Division 39 Spring Meeting 

  • Posted byby Lauren Arienzale
  • August 6, 2024
  • 4 minute read

Students, alums, and faculty from the New England PsyD in Clinical Psychology program gathered in Washington, DC, for the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology’s annual Spring Meeting. SPPP, more commonly known…

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