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Nandita Bajaj ’21
Nandita Bajaj ’21 (New England, MED) is adjunct faculty at Antioch University in the Human Education programs at its New England campus. She teaches courses on pronatalism and overpopulation, and human rights. She is also the Executive Director of Population Balance, a U.S. nonprofit that offers education and solutions to address the impacts of human…
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Wendy Chen ’15
Wendy Chen ’15 (Los Angeles, BA) has opened the Callisto Tea House in Pasadena, CA. Callisto Teas House seeks out women-owned estates, farms, producers, and distributors of tea, as well as women artists for the images on their site. To sustain the Earth, and the tea it provides, they use 100% recycled in biodegradable/compostable packaging…
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Obed Danlami ‘12
Obed Danlami 12 (New England, Environmental Studies, PhD) had their Community Education Program, KELIC Education Consult, was established after graduation to contend with social injustice issues in Africa. The Keene Learning and Information Center exists to challenge the aristocracy created by corruption in Nigeria. KELIC has worked for almost 10 years to improve access to…
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Dawn Hardison-Stevens ’14
Dawn Hardison-Stevens (Omushkeg Cree-Metis, Ojibway, Cowlitz, Steilacoom) ’14 (GSLC, PhD) is Assistant Professor in Native Education for The University of Washington Tacoma School of Education’s inaugural Muckleshoot Tribal partnership. The majority of students in their monumental incoming Master’s Cohort are Native American/First Nations. Hardison-Stevens is an experienced educator providing leadership and advocacy to promote academic…
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Mo Raei ‘18
Mo Raei ‘18 (GSLC, PhD) recently presented “Coaching and Adult Development Using the Spiral Dynamics AQAL Model” for the International Coaching Federation-Jordan chapter. He was also interviewed by fellow GSLC alum Dr. Scott Allen for the Phronesis podcast. This new episode regarding adult development specifically touches upon his expertise regarding the way in which adult…
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Kathy Hoffman ’22
Kathy Hoffman ’22 (GSLC, PhD), Agency Policy and Rules Manager for the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, will be participating in a plenary panel at the Cannabis Regulators Association CANNRA annual conference discussing hemp-derived cannabis products. Additionally, she will chair the panel “Cautionary Tales for Leaders” and present her first post-doc work entitled “The…
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Mike Young ’14
Dr. Mike Young ’14 (GSLC, PhD) published Nuclear Vigilance: The Creation of the Atomic Energy Detection System and its Impact on Nuclear Arms Control Goals during the Eisenhower Administration (Airforce, 2022). As the Command Historian for the Air Force Technical Applications Center, Young was able to tell this story about the initial creation of the…
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Holly Diaz ’19
Dr. Holly Diaz ’19 (GSLC, PhD) is the new Associate Director for the Morse Leadership Institute at Western Washington University. Diaz is an experienced administrator and professor with a history working within higher education. In this new role, she will bring her expertise in nonprofit leadership and community outreach to the Institute’s mission to foster…
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Amy Rebekah Chavez
PhD in Leadership and Change student Amy Rebekah Chavez launched Trauma and Resilience Informed Birth Education (T.R.I.B.E.), a parenting and perinatal professional support cooperative dedicated to changing culture through healing and preventing trauma in, around, and through the birth process. Chavez is a holistic health practitioner with over two decades of experience specializing in trauma-informed…
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Kalesha Jenkins
New England Clinical Mental Health Counseling teaching faculty Dr. Kalesha Jenkins, along with three colleagues, held a workshop at the 2022 All Ohio Counseling Conference in Columbus, Ohio. She and Dr. Tahani Dari of University of Detroit Mercy, Dr. Jenny Cureton of Kent State University, and Alicia Hall (LPCC-S) of Lifestance Health presented one of…
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Lezlie Kinyon ’85
Lezlie Kinyon ‘85 (BA, Seattle) will have her eco-speculative fiction short story “The First Song of Janna Farwind” published in December 2022. It will be featured in the Seasons Unceasing anthology by Worldsmyths Publishing in Edmonton, Canada. This story comes from a mother-daughter writing collaboration after the story’s protagonist appeared to Kinyon one day while planning a…
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Maria Kim
Seattle Creative Arts Teaching Faculty Dr. Maria Kim has been elected to the Board of Directors for the American Art Therapy Association. Her two-year term will begin in January of 2023. As a Korean immigrant, Dr. Kim is proud and excited to make AATA history, overcoming glass ceilings just to become visible in her field…
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