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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…
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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…
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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…
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Kimberly Yost Publishes New Book “Courageous Companions: Followership in Doctor Who”
Kimberly Yost ’12 (GSLC, PhD) has published her newest book, Courageous Companions: Followership in Doctor Who (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024). Yost is Assistant Professor of Management at Pennsylvania Western University. She is a leadership studies scholar and educator whose research and teaching centers on the ways popular culture can influence how we think and feel…
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Shannon Kringen Publishes New Book of Poetry
Shannon Kringen ’13 (Seattle, UGS) published a poetry book entitled Kringonian Pizzazz: KringSPEAK Poetry Goddess KRING. The inspiration for this book was Kringen’s synesthesia, which is when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously. Some examples include tasting words or linking colors to numbers…
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Jordan Trimble Raising Awareness of Benefit Concert
Jordan Trimble ‘17 (Online, UGS), is a board member of University Settlement, a nonprofit working to improve the lives of underserved communities in Cleveland, Ohio. Trimble is working to raise awareness for a benefit concert with Music for Food and the Cleveland Institute of Music, which is designed to raise money for University Settlement’s in-house…
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Barbara Berg Publishes Two Poems
Barbara Berg ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA) had two poems published in issue TQ27 of Tupelo Quarterly, “Something about vibration and sensory neurons” and “Even in this mess, something smells good outside the balcony.” Berg has had poems published in In Posse Review, Lunch Ticket, Lady/Liberty/Lit, and Poemeleon. She is a member of Women Who Submit and currently lives…
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Mikki Itzigsohn Presents “Songwriters” Gallery Art Show
Mikki Itzigsohn ‘13 (Los Angeles, BA) is having her first gallery show at Yard Dog in Austin, TX. The art show, entitled “Songwriters,” will run from February 15 – March 30 and will be on view through SXSW for those traveling to Austin for the film and music festival. “I am proud to be having…
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Huijun “Nikki” Li Receives Leader of Tomorrow Award from the American Dance Therapy Association
Huijun “Nikki” Li ’23 (New England, Dance and Movement Therapy) was honored with the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) Leader of Tomorrow Award. It is given to a dance/movement therapist and Professional Member of the ADTA who demonstrates leadership within the first five years after becoming a Professional member of the ADTA. Criteria for the…
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Crystal Cook Marshall Publishes “Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next”
Crystal Cook Marshall ’05 (Los Angeles, MFA) published Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next with Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. Inspired by her family’s involvement with the coal industry, Cook Marshall intends to challenge people to do better by rural people and places. “My main goal with this research…
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Ashley Benson Named Vice President of Student Affairs at Lourdes University
Ashley Benson ’20 (GSLC, PhD) has been named Vice President of Student Affairs at Lourdes University and will assume her role on March 19, 2024. Benson’s work centers around issues of equity and diversity in higher education, reflecting her passion for facilitating access and success for individuals seeking higher education opportunities, particularly first-generation college students.…
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Amy Lesen Co-Authors Article
Graduate School of Leadership and Change Professor of Environmental Leadership and Participatory Change Amy Lesen, PhD, co-authored the article “Saltwater Intrusion and Sea Level Rise threatens U.S. rural coastal landscapes and communities” in the journal Anthropocene. The overarching themes of Lesen’s work are climate, environmental, and health justice: the interrelatedness between environmental and human social…
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