• Christy Stillwell ‘98, ’99

    Christy Stillwell ‘98, ’99 (Santa Barbara, BA, MA in Psychology) has been selected as the 2022 Brill Family Foundation Future Bender Fellow. Stillwell is the Founder & Executive Director of What is LOVE, a program of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation that works directly with young people, parents, school staff, and mental health providers to…

  • Edmond Stevens ‘19

    Edmond Stevens ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA) had his story “Buried”  published in Deep Wild Journal, and his story “Jeter Batting Cleanup” was published in Muleskinner Journal.

  • Jessica O’Dwyer ‘18

    Jessica O’Dwyer‘s ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA) essay, “The Jump,” was published by MUTHA. 

  • Jordan Nakamura ‘19

    Jordan Nakamura’s ‘19 (Los Angeles, MFA) poem “Motherland, Formless & Void” was published in Gulf Coast.

  • Richard Goodwin ‘05

    Richard Goodwin ‘05 (Los Angeles, MFA) has his story “The Sixth Psychiatrist” published in X-R-A-Y  and his short story “In Memory Of” was published in Spank the Carp. He self-published his second novel, The Split.

  • Michael Passafiume ‘14

    Michael Passafiume’s ‘14 (Los Angeles, MFA) poems “there are days,” “the men I became,” and “Mr. Sleep” were published in Stickman Review.

  • Abby Templeton Greene ‘10

    Abby Templeton Greene ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA) founded the nonprofit writing organization Sidewalk Poets in Denver, Colorado after beginning the project as her field study at Antioch.

  • Abby Templeton Greene ‘10

    Abby Templeton Greene’s ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA) book of poetry, A Blue House to Sleep, will be published by Finishing Line Press in November. 

  • Gina Duran ‘19

    Gina Duran‘s ‘19 (Los Angeles, BA) piece “Stolen Wind” was published by Stanford University’s Life in QuarantineProject and her book of poetry “…and so, the Wind was Born” was published by FlowerSong Press.

  • Clinical Mental Health Counseling Faculty Present on Social Justice Advocacy at a National Conference

      Dr. Cathy Lounsbury, Professor and Chair, Dr. Syntia Santos Dietz, Associate Professor, and Dr. Devona Stalnaker-Shofner, Associate Chair and faculty of MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program spoke at the 2022 Association for Humanistic Counseling Conference that took place in Nashville, TN on May 27th & 28th. The AHC annual conference provides an opportunity for…

  • Manuel Prieto ’16

    Manuel Prieto ’16 (Los Angeles, MA in Nonprofit Management) will assume the position of Director of Education at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts this September. He will leave his position of seven years as LAMusArt’s Executive Director. As the new Director of Education, he will oversee the strategic planning and operations of…

  • Affiliate Faculty Kerry Madden-Lunsford

    Affiliate Faculty Kerry Madden-Lunsford‘s op-ed, “‘They’ said they had my son. ‘They’ demanded money. So began the days of waiting and crying” was published in the Los Angeles Times.