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

  • Tiffany Thomas Published Chapter in Book on Divorce Grief

    Tiffany Thomas ‘18 (Los Angeles, MA) recently wrote a chapter on divorce grief as part of book collaboration called The Grief Experience: Tools for Acceptance, Resilience, and Connection. Thomas is a therapist in Studio City, CA who helps individuals and couples struggling with addiction, codependency, and unhealthy relationship patterns. She specializes in helping individuals cope…

  • Aperr Naadzenga Nominated to the United Nations Roster of Experts

    Aperr Naadzenga ’19 (New England, MS) was nominated to the United Nations Roster of Experts for his home country, Nigeria. Carefully drawn from around the world, each expert consistently receives training on a regular basis to be able to fit into the responsibilities and the status of an expert reviewer, to be qualified to undertake…

  • Sokthea Phay Named as Executive Director of Wang YMCA of Greater Boston

    Sokthea Phay, a student in the MA in Nonprofit management, has been named the next Executive Director of the Wang YMCA of Greater Boston. He is the first individual of Khmer (Cambodian) descent to be appointed to the Executive Director role of a YMCA in the United States. At the age of 19, Sokthea started his professional career as the founding…

  • Susie Halsell Appointed by UNICEF to the role of Technical Expert

    Susie Halsell ’18, ’23 (Santa Barbara, BA, Online, MA) was appointed by UNICEF to the role of Technical Expert for the establishment of a skateboarding program for street children in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Street Kids Aid is actively investing in the future of marginalized youth by providing community and connecting people of diverse backgrounds. They…

  • Janet Dewart Bell Publishes New Book

    Janet Dewart Bell ’74, ’15 (Maryland, BA and GSLC, PhD; and a member of Antioch’s Board of Governors) has published a new book entitled Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century (The New Press, 2024). The book features an uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, which were curated…

  • Maya Townsend Co-Publishes First Peer-Reviewed Article

    PhD in Leadership and Change student Maya Townsend, had their first peer-reviewed article, co-authored by Sjoerd Romme, “The Emerging Concept of the Human-Centered Organization: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature” published by Humanistic Management Journal. As Romme wrote: “We review and synthesize the literature in order to offer an integrated model of the human centered…

  • Rhoda Weiss Named to Becker Hospital Review’s List of “Great Healthcare Leaders to Know”

    Rhoda Weiss ’09 (GSLC, PhD) was named to Becker Hospital Review’s 2023 list of “Great Healthcare Leaders to Know.” Weiss is President and Founder of Rhoda Weiss Consulting Group, Inc. specializing in marketing, branding, communications, crisis management, and business development. She was selected among 80 leaders from across the country who are “expertly navigating the…

  • Iva Vurdelja Executive Produces Documentary

    Iva Vurdelja ’11 (GSLC, PhD) is the Executive Producer of the new documentary Forging a Life, directed by Marko Stanic. The film tells the story of the evolution and the legacy of Otto Laske, a poet, a musician, an artist, and a social scientist. Widely educated, he works at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and…

  • Lynn Horan Appears on “Live the Width of Your Life” Podcast

    GSLC student Lynn Horan was a guest on the Live the Width of Your Life podcast, hosted by transformational leadership coach Aneta Ardelian Kuzma. Horan’s episode, entitled “Breaking Down Toxic Systems and Leading at the Spiritual Edge,” highlights her dissertation research focused on the psychological safety of young women clergy and includes a preview of…

  • Scott J. Allen to Chair Annual Global Gathering

    Scott J. Allen ’06 (GSLC, PhD) has recently announced his position as Global Conference Chair for the International Leadership Association annual global gathering this fall. This year’s theme “Architects of Change: Leaders, Followers, and Communities,” will bring together leaders and leadership scholars, educators, and development professionals from around the world at this premier event to…

  • Rachel Kunert-Graf Reviews Collection in “Inks”

    Rachel Kunert-Graf, PhD, Writing Support Faculty at Antioch University’s Seattle campus, has a publication in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. She reviews a new collection, Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders edited by Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman. In the review, Kunert-Graf examines what the book brings forward about…

  • Fayth Parks Serves as Keynote Speaker for a Gathering of Communities Conference

    Graduate School of Leadership and Change Professor of Leadership and Psychology, Fayth Parks, PhD was the 2023 keynote speaker for the Communities of United Chicago’s A Gathering of Communities conference. The theme of the conference was Strategizing for a Healing Centered City and her keynote entitled, “We All Have a Right To the Tree of…