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…
A Tale of Two School Districts: Antioch Alums Have Outsize Impact in Chesterfield and Brattleboro
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…