“Mentorship isn’t just about giving advice,” says Katrin Dambrot. “It’s about truly investing in someone’s potential and helping them see what’s possible.” For Dambrot, the current Chair of Antioch’s Board…
Coalition Launches Graduate Early Admission Pathways
In 2024, when Antioch University came together with Otterbein University to form a shared university system, the Coalition for the Common Good, one of the major reasons for joining forces…
New Deans and Vice Chancellor Named
Amy Rutstein-Riley Named Dean of Graduate School of Leadership and Change Amy Rutstein-Riley, PhD, officially assumed the role of Dean of the Graduate School of Leadership and Change (GSLC) on…
The Big Caption: Co-op Supporters Show Out
Supporters of a food co-op in Keene, NH, showed up in force at this 2009 Keene City Council Meeting to urge the council to approve an appropriation to fund the…
Josh Jacobs Brings Experience and Values to New Role as Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement
Josh Jacobs loved being a college student so much that he finished the requirements for a biology major on the pre-med track in just three years. When he realized that…
Remembering Lillian Lovelace: A Champion of Antioch Who Helped Start MFA, GSLC, and Much More
Lillian Pierson Lovelace’s involvement in Antioch University stretched from 1946, when she started her freshman year at Antioch College, to 1986, when she graduated with her BA from the Santa…
Mid-Career MFA Leads a Documentarian Back to Fiction—and to the Stage
In April of 2023, the playwright and documentarian Dara Padwo-Audick made an ambitious request: that her community give $20,000 to underwrite staging her play, Onion Skin, as part of the…
2024 Environmental Excellence Awards Honor Two Environmental Justice Champions
At its Finishing Ceremony on May 10, Antioch University’s Environmental Studies Department honored its 2024 graduates and awarded its prestigious Environmental Excellence Awards. The Community Award went to Perry Cohen,…
David Lawrence Named Dayton Public Schools Next Superintendent
“Two days ago, I made a decision to send 15,000 people home,” says David Lawrence. There was a tornado on the horizon, but still, calling off class for an entire…
We Are the Storytellers: How MFA Alum Ligiah Villalobos Is Changing Film and TV Writing
Ligiah Villalobos Rojas was an executive at The Walt Disney Company, where part of her job was to review scripts written by fellows in the Writing Fellowship Program, giving each…
Advancing Healthcare for the Common Good with Stephanie Fox
Sitting in a lecture hall in 2007, one thing Stephanie Fox didn’t want to hear when she started studying to be a therapist was that many people leave the field…
Janet Dewart Bell Joins Tavis Smiley to Discuss Her New Book
Janet Dewart Bell ’74, ’15 (Maryland, BA and GSLC, PhD; and a member of Antioch’s Board of Governors) recently joined Tavis Smiley to discuss her new book, Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s…