We asked some of our most visionary alumni, students, faculty, staff, and board members to think about the years and decades to come—and to tell us how they see Antioch University and its alumni contributing. These are their answers.
Climate Change Is Changing Everything. Meet the Alums Working on Adaptations.
The image we have of climate activism is often one of direct action: scientists chaining themselves to the doors of a Wells Fargo branch to encourage the bank to divest from fossil fuels; Greta Thunberg leading a school strike. But that’s not the extent of what climate activism can be. If we look closer, individuals and communities across the nation and planet are regularly making decisions in their day-to-day lives that impact climate change both today and in the future.
Nature Is Not One Thing, Nor Binary
How a Nonbinary International Student Is Bringing Queer Theory to Environmental Studies
Finding Your Center in the Chaos of the Climate Crisis
Thomas Doherty is a leading expert on climate grief and ecotherapy. These days, we all can benefit from his lessons.
Leading Antioch Forward: A Profile of Board Chair Carole Isom-Barnes
When Carole Isom-Barnes took the job of Chair of Antioch University’s Board of Governors, she brought with her a career’s worth of insight and passion.
The Jewel in the Crown: An Oral History of Antioch’s Santa Barbara Campus
Six voices come together to share an oral history of the early days of Antioch’s Santa Barbara campus.
Message from the Chancellor
As we wrap up a year of forward-looking changes here at Antioch, I am delighted to introduce the sixth annual Antioch Alumni Magazine, “The Future Issue.” In these pages you…
With Launch of Coalition for the Common Good, Antioch and Otterbein Chart a Shared Future
A new, national, mission-oriented university system is taking shape.
What’s Broken Is Still Beautiful: The Sculptures of Deborah McDuff Williams
This summer, in the center of the main gallery of the Center for Social Justice & Civil Liberties in Riverside, California, there stood a giant assembled artwork: a bouquet of wood with sticks, diverse colored beads, ropes, and dowels of different sizes sticking out in all directions, all topped off by a barrel that represented the hull of a ship, filled with a few dozen dried, carefully decorated palm fronds. An intricate assemblage full of story and suffering.
Antioch’s Ofrenda
Every year, in the weeks leading up to Día de Los Muertos, Gloria Molina Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles fills with altars to the dead. This year, the altars…
Cultivating Democratic Curiosity
Excerpts from Laurien Alexandre’s 2023 Commencement Address to Graduates of the PhD in Leadership and Change
“I Have No Choice But to Fictionalize” – A Q&A with the writer Anna Dorn
A Q&A with the writer Anna Dorn