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  • Angie Bryan Receives the Recovery Champion Award from the Association of Recovery in Higher Education

    Angie Bryan ‘11 (Santa Barbara, MA) received the Recovery Champion Award from the Association of Recovery in Higher Education. This award honors an individual or organization that has championed collegiate recovery in a transformative and astounding manner. The Collegiate Recovery Champion Award is the highest annual honor recognized by ARHE. Bryan is the founder of…

  • Anastasia Ashe Publishes Article in Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy

    Anastasia Ashe, PsyD, teaching faculty and director of new student support for the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology program at Antioch’s Santa Barbara campus published an article in the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy titled, “Sensate focus: addressing potential preconceived notions of Black sexuality.” The article looks at how stigmas and stereotypes of…

  • Nicola Smith-Kea Joins as Senior Project Manager to Lead Hate Crimes Prevention Initiative

    Nicola “Nikki” Smith-Kea, PhD, ‘20 (GSLC, PhD) has been hired as Senior Project Manager to manage a $1.2 million grant award through the U.S. Department of Justice for the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program. Smith-Kea will lead the implementation of a comprehensive hate crime prevention program, which will include law enforcement training,…

  • Brian Greenberg Appointed Chief Information Officer at Leading Leadership Consulting Firm RHR International

    Brian Greenberg ‘03 (Seattle, MA in Whole Systems Design/Systems Theory) joined RHR International as Chief Information Officer. RHR International is one of the world’s preeminent leadership consulting firms, composed of behavioral scientists and practitioners. Their mission is to help CEOs, boards, senior executives, teams, and tomorrow’s leaders master the art and science of leadership. Greenberg…

  • Antioch Environmental Studies Researchers Publish Paper on Avian Nest Materials in Ecology and Evolution

    David Mandell ‘24 (New England, MS), Kat Lauer ‘20 (New England, MS), and Mike Akresh, core faculty in the MS in Environmental Studies program, co-director, Antioch Spatial Analysis Lab Environmental Studies (ASAL), and director of the Conservation Biology concentration published an article in Ecology and Evolution titled, “Differential use of nest materials and niche space among avian species…

  • Antioch Researchers Publish Paper on Forest Bathing and Adolescent Connection to Nature

    Jen Keller ‘23, (PhD, New England), Jason Rhoades, PhD, program director of Antioch’s PhD in Environmental Studies program in New England, Jean Kayira, former Antioch Environmental Studies faculty, and Louise Chawla published a paper in the Journal of Ecopsychology titled, “Forest Bathing Increases Adolescent Connection to Nature: A Mixed Methods Study.” This study looked at high school…

  • Mike Bills Publishes Insightful Article on Optimism Bias in Trusteeship Magazine

    Mike Bills ’20 (GSLC, PhD) published an article entitled, “Optimism Bias: How It Can Impact Decision Making on Boards” in the May/June 2024 issue of the Trusteeship Magazine. The article focuses on the challenges that higher education faces today due to lack of enrollment and the complications of trustees over budgeting. It aims to educate…

  • Harriet Schwartz and Elizabeth L. Holloway Co-Author Groundbreaking Book on Constructivist Critical Incident Technique

    Harriet Schwartz ’09 (GSLC, PhD) Professor of Relational Practice and Higher Education in the Graduate School of Leadership and Change, and Elizabeth L. Holloway, PhD, Professor Emeritus,  have co-authored the book Essentials of Constructivist Critical Incident Technique. Published by the American Psychological Association, it is the first book on Critical Incident Technique (CIT), a method…

  • Christine Gonzalez Honored as 2024 Leader of Influence by Los Angeles Business Journal

    Christine (Posadas) Gonzalez ‘20 (Los Angeles, MA in Nonprofit Management) has been recognized as a 2024 esteemed Leader of Influence by the Los Angeles Business Journal. She is co-director of AmeriCorps Seniors at L.A. Works and this recognition highlights her incredible dedication and impact in the nonprofit sector. The article highlights her work: “Gonzalez has…

  • Tera McIntosh Leads Animal Rescue Support After Hurricane Helene

    Tera McIntosh ’12 (GSLC, PhD), faculty for the Master of Human Services Administration, MBA, and MA in Nonprofit Management, and a member of Antioch’s Anti Racism Task Force, and her wife Amy McIntosh ’20 (Online, BA) distributed close to 14K in donations to their community in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. As founders of Misfit Mountain,…

  • Amy Rutstein-Riley Publishes Book on Leadership Enrichment and Development

    Amy Rutstein-Riley, Dean of the Graduate School of Leadership and Change, has published a book titled, Leadership Enrichment and Development: Peer and Self-Mentoring Women in Higher Education (Routledge, 2024).  The book shares the LEAD (Leadership Enrichment and Development) method, a framework for supporting and facilitating leadership identity development for women in higher education. Guided by…

  • Calib Miller Joins Aspen Institute’s Food Leaders Fellows Third Cohort

    Calib Miller, PhD Candidate in the Graduate School of Leadership and Change, will join the 2024 cohort of the Aspen Institute’s Food Leaders Fellows, which creates a larger community to change the food system for the better. Over the next 18 months, he will work with the Aspen Institute to reimagine the future of food…