Ninety miles northwest of Boston, the Connecticut River flows in its broad, meandering course and, near a particularly wide bend in the river, meets and is joined by one of…
JOHN DOE: HOW ANTIOCH PREPARED THE X CO-FOUNDER TO MAKE PUNK ROCK HISTORY
When the California quartet X released its first album in 1980, it upended everyone’s assumptions about punk rock. The twin lead vocals from a man and a woman weren’t in…
JOCELYN ROBINSON: Searching for the Lost Voices of History
In 1964, Jocelyn Robinson ’07 (Antioch McGregor, MA in Cultural Studies) was an eight-year-old girl growing up in Yellow Springs, Ohio, when the Civil Rights movement came to her small…
Toward Climate Justice: Hop Hopkins Helps Steer the Environmental Movement
Big systems have momentum that can be hard to shift. Take it from Hop Hopkins (Antioch Los Angeles, MA in Urban Sustainability Candidate) who as the Director of Organizational Transformation…
Living a Passion for an Organic Life
Katie Schwerin ’93 (New England, MA in Education) is a lifelong educator, learner, and community builder. The co-founder, along with her husband Bill Whyte, of W.S. Badger & Co., graduated…
Creative Arts Therapies
“Art transcends language. It is a global way of communicating,” said Janice Hoshino, a registered and board certified art therapist and a licensed marriage and family therapist who is the…
Standing Up For Democracy An Antioch Tradition
I have often wondered what brought Horace Mann—this abolitionist, politician, Bostonian, and advocate of public education—to a small private struggling college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Horace Mann believed in the…
The Psychology of Color
When Leatrice “Lee” Eiseman ’71 (Antioch College, BA in Psychology) was a little girl, she knew she had a natural talent for putting colors together to create something pleasing to…
The Path of Nonviolent Resistance
The same passion that drew Mary Lou Finley to Chicago during the civil rights era led her down the path to teaching social justice. Finley, PhD, sociologist, and Professor Emerita…
World Champion Uncovers His Desire to Help Others
In 2009, a year after two-time Olympic medalist Markus Rogan ‘14 (Los Angeles, MA in Clinical Psychology), set a new world record for the men’s 200m backstroke, the 27-year-old Austrian…
Frank Galassi Remembers The Stonewall Riots
It was the summer of 1969 and Frank Galassi ’87 (Los Angeles, MA in Clinical Psychology), a gay college professor from Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., liked to let off some steam…
Designing for Greatness
Jessica Barry graduated from SAA with a diploma in graphic design in 1997,became its President in 2007, and purchased the school in 2013. As her high school years came to…