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What’s happening with Antioch’s Alumni, Faculty, and Staff

  • Jeremy Rathbun ’07

    Jeremy Rathbun ’07 (New England, MEd) was awarded the New Hampshire School Administrators Association Outstanding Service Award, a statewide educational service award.

  • Gleah Powers ’05, ’07

    Gleah Powers ’05, ’07 (Los Angeles, BA, MFA) published Million Dollar Red (2019), a dark and compelling memoir set against a backdrop of cacti-covered deserts in Arizona to the glossy skylines of New York. Powers’ worldwide journey spans from a 14-year-old in search of authenticity to an adult artist’s transformation and rebirth.

  • Rebecca Anderson ’07

    Rebecca Anderson ’07 (Santa Barbara, MA) is the new Executive Director of Ganna Walska Lotusland, becoming the fourth executive director in Lotusland’s 36-year history.

  • Susan Southard ’06

    Susan Southard ’06 (Los Angeles, MFA) had an opinion piece in the Washington Post about the questions Americans ask, and often neglect to ask, about the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan.

  • Anna Scotti ’06

    Anna Scotti ’06 (Los Angeles, MFA) published Big and Bad (2020), a young adult novella with teeth–gritty and street smart with a heart. It is a gripping story about a California teen, whose mom dies and whose alcoholic father is unable to care for her.

  • Taci Jones ’06

    Taci Jones ’06 (Midwest, MEd) received the Excellence in Teaching Award sponsored by the Springfield, OH Rotary Club, Ohio Edison, The Springfield Foundation, and the Chamber of Greater Springfield.

  • Luane Davis Haggerty ’06

    Dr. Luane Davis Haggerty ’06 (GSLC, PhD) directed one of the first known productions of August Wilson’s Fences performed simultaneously in spoken English and American Sign Language. The show won the Kennedy Center College Theater Festival award for Excellence in Ensemble Performance.

  • Tammy Delatorre ’06

    Tammy Delatorre ’06 (Los Angeles, MFA) was named a 2021 Steinbeck Fellow with the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.

  • Heather Kiley ’95

    Heather Kiley ’95 (New England, MS) took over as Executive Director of the Carroll County YMCA Camp Huckins. Kiley has 25 years of experience in residential camping and youth development.

  • Amy Evans ’95

    Amy Evans ’95 (Santa Barbara, MA) was awarded the Public Policy Leader of the Year by the Santa Barbara chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO-SB). She is the Executive Director of Devereux Behavioral Health California.

  • Luzmaria Espinosa ’95

    Luzmaria Espinosa ’95 (Santa Barbara, MA) is the new Ventura County Poet Laureate, a position that enables her to promote poetry reading to the residents of the region. Her poetic themes typically focus on Chicano and indigenous culture and issues of social justice, especially as they relate to women.

  • Mary Baures ’95

    Dr. Mary Baures ’95 (New England, PsyD) extends her plea against using our brother and sister species as commodities in Awakening Awe—An illustrated Journey Toward Reverence (2020). Her narrative, woven around encounters with leopards, snow monkeys, grizzlies, jaguars, and orphan orangutans, is an urgent warning for us to end our cult of superiority and our…