Wendy Ortiz came to Antioch as a young person with an important story to excavate. She found literary mentorship, a psychology career, and even lifelong partnership. But that doesn’t mean the rest has been simple.
At the Intersection of Activism and Career
Alumni Deb Moy, Max Golding and Isais Narvaez talk to the Seed Field podcast about centering activism in their lives and careers.
Making the Streets Safer—For Bikes, Walkers, and Kids
Growing up in Los Angeles, Yolanda Davis-Overstreet ’18 (Antioch Los Angeles, MA in Urban Sustainability) spent the ubiquitous sunny afternoons of her childhood pedaling up and down city sidewalks.
From Library to Submarine and Back Again
Getting kids reading takes more than a little doing—it requires making the library somewhere students want to be.
Online-Only Extra: Antioch Under the Bodhi Tree
In 2012, I graduated from college, and that fall I took a small surplus of student loan money and traveled to India.
Online-Only Extra: Looking Back as a Librarian
When I started my position as a librarian in early 2020, I didn’t know much about the history of Antioch University.
Providing a Second Chance: An Oral History of Antioch’s Philadelphia Campus
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…