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

  • Cerissa Desrosiers ’13

    Cerissa Desrosiers ’13 (New England, PsyD) is the Clinical Director of Endurance Behavioral Health, a group-based behavioral health practice for adolescents in Seabrook, NH, which specializes in partial hospitalization (PHP) and intensive outpatient (IOP) programs. Dr. Desrosiers is in the process of creating a new intensive day program for obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD) and anxiety…

  • Teresa (Segovia) Alvarez ’13

    Teresa (Segovia) Alvarez ’13 (Santa Barbara, MA) was appointed as associate director at the Carpinteria Children’s Project (CCP).

  • George Woods ’12

    George Woods ’12 (Seattle, BA) is Co-Founder of WIM SHOES LLC, a socially conscious e-commerce site.

  • Brent French ’12

    Brent French ’12 (GSLC, PhD) retired from the Air Force as a Colonel after twenty-seven years of service. Dr. French continues as Director of Finance and Operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Foisie Business School where he teaches graduate courses in organizational behavior and has recently become involved in a funded research project to map the…

  • Sasha Purpura ’11

    Sasha Purpura ’11 (New England, MBA) was interviewed on WGBH’s PBS NewsHour Shares program. Purpura is Executive Director of Food for Free, a food rescue group based in Cambridge, MA. Food For Free launched a program where student volunteers package 1,200 pounds of leftover food into microwaveable meals for those in need.

  • Jane Alexandre ’11

    Jane Alexandre ’11 (GSLC, PhD) was a Selected Scholar of the Women in Dance Leadership 2018 conference held in New York City. Dr. Alexandre’s paper presentation titled “Women Leading Dance: Theory into Practice” explored change and forward movement through performance, choreography, teaching, writing, organizing, directing and more. Dr. Alexandre is an independent dance artist and…

  • Wendy Vincent ’10

    Wendy Vincent ’10 (New England, PsyD) and Clinical Psychology faculty member, Dr. Lorraine Mangione, co-chaired the 2018 Massachusetts Psychological Association’s Annual Conference, “We Need to Talk: A Changing Culture, A Changing World, Our Changing Selves.”

  • Cati Porter ’10

    Cati Porter ’10 (Los Angeles, MFA) was interviewed for an Artist’s Spotlight in the Daily Bulletin (SoCal) in August, 2018. Porter is currently executive director of the Inlandia Institute, the largest literary organization in Southern California’s Inland Empire. Her third book of poems, The Body at a Loss, came out from CavanKerry Press in 2019.

  • Nikia Chaney ’09

    Nikia Chaney ’09 (Los Angeles, MFA) was profiled in the Precinct Reporter Group about her educational trajectory. From growing up in poverty in South LA and San Bernardino, to receiving her BA from San Bernardino Valley College, which inspired her to later pursue and receive two master’s degrees. Chaney is the fourth Inlandia Literary Laureate,…

  • Rob Montoya ’08

    Rob Montoya ’08 (Los Angeles, MFA) received a Fulbright grant to work with the nation of Kosovo. Montoya will be partnering with the U.S. Embassy and the National Library of Kosovo to create a national Information and Library Science program.

  • Emily Mastaler ’08

    Emily Mastaler ’08 (New England, MA) has been named CEO of Bay River Hospital in Alexandria Bay, NY. Mastaler has been chief operating officer of Health Care and Rehabilitation Services (HCRS) in Springfield, VT since 2014.

  • Tracy Rector ’06

    Tracy Rector ’06 (Seattle, MA) exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). Her show, “Double Exposure: Edward S. Curtis, Marianne Nicolson, Tracy Rector, Will Wilson,” included films Ch’aak’ S’aagi (the first virtual-reality video by a Native artist) and Clearwater: People of the Salish Sea. Each film had an enriched viewing environment in the gallery, created…