Janine Betts comes from a family of educated women, but she says choices that she made earlier in her life prevented her from earning a degree. When she decided that she was ready to go to college, an opportunity with
Antioch University Los Angeles was proud to host the July 2019 meeting of City Impact Lab, featuring speaker Michael Lawson, President & CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League. Mr. Lawson spoke about the difference a devotion to integrity has made throughout his professional
In June, organizations in which a few alumni and faculty from the Antioch MA in Urban Sustainability (USMA) program are involved were honored at the APA Los Angeles Planning Awards gala. The annual awards are decided by a panel of judges
Victoria Chang was recently announced as Chair of Antioch University’s Creative Writing Department. Chang has been a Core Faculty member and part of the Antioch community since October 2017. “Antioch is extremely fortunate to have a leader, educator, and poet of
In November of 2018, Jude Bergkamp, PsyD and forensic research team, Kelle Agassiz, Stephanie Bowser, and Amber Silverwood, were invited to present their findings regarding implicit bias and corrections to the Diversity Committee of the Department of Corrections (DOC) headquarters.
The New Woman’s Survival Catalog by Undergraduate Studies Co-Chair Dr. Kirsten Grimstad and co-author Susan Rennie will be published this fall (2019) in a facsimile edition by Primary Information, a publisher specializing in artist’s books. Originally compiled and published in
Mary Sutton, activist and 2016 alumna of the MA in Urban Sustainability program has dabbled in a variety of careers from bus driver to graphic designer. Today, she is running her own non-profit Collective Remake, a social enterprise that supports the
Dreams that take over our minds while we are sleeping reveal a great deal about us as individuals, but they are also about the society that we are living in, according to psychologists like MA in Clinical Psychology faculty George Bermudez.
Word travels swiftly through the alumni channels of AULA’s low residency MFA in Creative Writing. Far-flung writers who rarely, if ever, engage together in person, we are nonetheless communicators whose favorite pastimes include such sport as report, recall, reflect, recount,
Michelle Thomas will graduate from the Masters in Nonprofit Management (MANM) program at AULA in June 2019. One month away from finishing her program, she feels as though she’s going through an intense transformation, experiencing change and growth on both
Alumna Credits “The Antioch Way” with Opening Doors to a Career in Opera BA in Liberal Studies Alumna, Cindy Shapiro (’13), enrolled at Antioch University Los Angeles as a stepping stone to becoming an “invested Cantor” at the Wilshire Boulevard
Social Justice, Her Way: a profile of Antioch alum and affiliate faculty If anyone should know Antioch University’s mission, it’s alum and affiliated writing faculty, Andrea Tate. After earning her undergraduate degree from Santa Barbara, her MFA in Creative Nonfiction
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