Like many Antioch students, Laura Speight-Reddick ’80 (Antioch Philadelphia, BA) realized a little late that she was not only interested in a college education but also capable of doing the work…
Helping Overcome Addiction
Across the country, Antioch alums are finding and creating different roles to accomplish the common goal of helping people in their moments of need.
Antioch’s Showbiz-to-Psychology Pipeline
Your first session with a new therapist. They call you into the office. You take a seat on the couch and mentally prepare to process life’s challenges—all the while thinking, in the back of your mind, This person looks familiar. Only in LA, right?Well, no…
Connections Beyond Graduation
Students studying in Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change are encouraged to form friendships and connections with their peers. In part this is good practice for developing leaders…
Four Antiochian Poet Laureates
When Grace Cavalieri taught at Antioch-Columbia in the early ’70s, it was a heady time to be a poet, and to be a part of Antioch. This campus—centered in the newly-opened, planned community of Columbia, situated between Baltimore and Washington, DC—had been proposed in 1969 and opened its doors in 1970…
Mark Fargo: A Poet on the Road
Mark Fargo ’10 (Antioch Santa Barbara, MA in Education, Leadership & Social Justice) rides a motorcycle, but he has no interest in Harley Davidsons or Sturgis. His personal motto is…
Voices From the Pandemic: Antioch New England PsyD Alumni Showcase Their Vital Roles
As the pandemic swept across the nation, upending lives and suspending in-person gatherings, the faculty at Antioch University New England’s PsyD in Clinical Psychology put out a call asking what…
Penny McBride: From Foodie to Revolutionary Food Production
Penny McBride ’04 (Antioch Seattle, MA in Environment and Community) is a huge foodie. Before McBride became the COO at Second Chances Farm, she learned to appreciate high-quality food through…
Giving Grief Meaning
andrew d . lachman On the night of July 29, 2009, “all semblance of order ceased” for Lily Dulan ’03, ’06 (Antioch Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing and MA…
Building Paradise Out of Hell
An excerpt from Dr. Alexandre’s 2020 Commencement speech delivered to the Graduating Class of the PhD in Leadership and Change Program. I take the title from both John Milton’s Paradise…
Roberto Lovato — A Revolutionary Life in Four Acts
Roberto Lovato ’18 (Antioch Los Angeles, MFA) sits inside La Boheme, the same Mission neighborhood café where the voices of poets like Piri Thomas, Juan Felipe Herrera, Diane Di Prima,…
Naomi Nightingale & Janet Dewart Bell: What It Takes to Be A Leader
Dr. Naomi Nightingale ’85, ’14 (Antioch Los Angeles, BA and GSLC, PhD) already had a flourishing career when she decided to go to college. She had co-founded Project Action, a…