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Kirk Adams’s The Disability Dividend Reaches Amazon Bestseller Lists
Kirk Adams ’19 (GSLC, PhD), a nationally recognized leader in disability inclusion and employment, has achieved a new milestone with his book, The Disability Dividend: $upercharge Your Bottom-Line Through Disability Inclusion. The book recently became an Amazon bestseller, ranking No. 3 in Business Diversity & Inclusion and No. 5 in Business Ethics. The bestseller ranking…
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Aiken and Tirmizi: Advancing Dignity-Centered Leadership in the Workplace
We are pleased to share that PhD in Leadership Change alum Emily Aiken, PhD, and faculty member Professor Aqeel Tirmizi, PhD, recently published an article, “Towards a Theory of Fostering Workplace Dignity Across Social Identity Differences: Practices of Exemplary Supervisors,” in the Journal of Positive Psychology, a leading peer-reviewed journal in the field of well-being…
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Kathleen O’Brien Publishes New Poetry Collection
Kathleen O’Brien ‘02 (Seattle, MA) has published a new collection of poetry, Novena to Loss and Other Love Poems, with MoonPath Press. The collection grew out of O’Brien’s grief following the sudden death from cancer of her husband, John H. Cunningham, who was also an Antioch alum through the Meany Institute, in March 2022. Through…
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Shari Foos Brings The Narrative Method to the Page in New Book
Shari Foos ‘97 (Los Angeles, MA in Clinical Psychology) has spent decades exploring how creativity, storytelling, and human connection can help people better understand themselves and one another. Now, the ideas at the center of her work are becoming a book. Foos’ forthcoming The Narrative Method: A Writing Practice for Not Hating Yourself and Discovering…
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Emmanuel Oluyitan Publishes New Memoir, The Chronology of a Life
Emmanuel Oluyitan ’15 (PhD, Leadership and Change) has published his latest book, The Chronology of a Life: For Everything There Is a Season, a memoir tracing the experiences and accomplishments that have shaped his life and career. The 230-page memoir follows Oluyitan’s journey through nine chapters and includes photographs and documents from throughout his life.…
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Celebrating Sarah Ceja’s Latest Publication
Congratulations to Sarah Ceja, AU Writing Specialist Coordinator, on the recent publication of her article, “Contingency and Care: Reimagining Graduate Student Labor Through Writing Center Work,” with the WAC Clearinghouse! As lead writer, Sarah collaborated with co-authors Beatriz Ramirez and Christine Sharp to explore the often unseen emotional, intellectual, and organizational labor of graduate writing…
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Christopher Heffner Published in APA Division 46 Magazine
Congratulations to Christopher L. Heffner, PsyD, PhD, Core Faculty in Antioch University Seattle’s PsyD in Clinical Psychology program, on the publication of his latest article in The Amplifier, the magazine of the American Psychological Association’s Division 46: Society for Media Psychology and Technology. Heffner, who currently serves as President-Elect of APA Division 46, explores the…
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Donna DiCello Published Reckoning: A Haibun Journey
Donna H. DiCello ’96 (New England, PsyD) published Reckoning: A Haibun Journey on July 1 through Red Moon Press. Blending reflective prose with haiku in the Japanese literary form known as haibun, the book traces DiCello’s decision to close her psychotherapy practice after more than 30 years and begin a new chapter centered on poetry…
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Faculty Member Presents Research on Followership at Global Conference
Antioch University faculty member Yulia Tolstikov-Mast, PhD, was invited to present multiple sessions at the Global Followership Conference in July, bringing new perspectives on followership, leadership, and collective action amid global crises. As a featured KickStart speaker, Yulia delivered a TED Talk-style presentation, Leader–Follower Role-Switching in a Time of Polycrisis. Drawing on volunteer work with…
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Chuck Powell Explores Global Threats in New Novel, Unicursal
Chuck Powell ’14 (GSLC, PhD) had his novel, Unicursal: Redemption in the Age of Nuclear Annihilation, published by Subplot Publishing on July 14, 2026. Set across two timelines, the speculative novel confronts nuclear war, climate disaster, artificial intelligence, authoritarianism, and the possibility that personal transformation and collective action can change humanity’s course. The novel revisits…
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New APA Publication Explores a Decolonial Approach To Clinical Case Conceptualization
Congratulations to Jude Bergkamp, PsyD, and Melissa Kennedy, PhD, on the publication of their article, The Aggregate Model: Breaking the Dysconscious Ceiling of Clinical Case Conceptualization, in the American Psychological Association journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. The article introduces the Aggregate Model, a practical framework for clinical case conceptualization that examines the interconnected roles…
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Dani Chesson Publishes First Book, Unstuckifyed
Dani Chesson ’17 (GSLC, PhD) published her first book, Unstuckifyed: Why Organizations Get Stuck and How to Unstick Them, on July 15. In Unstuckifyed, Chesson examines why organizations become stuck and introduces practical approaches that can help teams move beyond unproductive busyness and create meaningful, lasting change. Chesson is a design thinker and organizational and…
