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

  • Vanessa Smith, ’03

    Vanessa Smith ’03 (Los Angeles, BA) started a new job as the Shriver Family Law Attorney at Legal Access Alameda. In this role, she is supervising volunteer attorneys who represent low-income individuals at hearings in child custody cases. “I have wanted to work in the nonprofit legal sector since I was a student at Antioch…

  • Tim Cummings ‘18

    Tim Cummings’s ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) debut novel, Alice the Cat, will be published by Regal House in 2023.

  • Robert Morgan Fisher ’14

    Robert Morgan Fisher’s ’14 (Los Angeles, MFA) piece, “Pipe Dream Paste,” 2021 Great American Fiction Contest Second Runner-Up, appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. His story, “Extremity,” was a finalist for the Missouri Review’s 2021 Perkoff Prize.

  • Khadijah Queen ‘06

    Khadijah Queen ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) was listed as one of Essence’s “20 Poets You Should Know” for national poetry month. Queen’s latest book of poetry Anodyne was named a finalist for a Colorado Book Award for Poetry. 

  • Yves P. Gakunde ’12 and ’20

    Dr. Yves P. Gakunde ’20 (New England, PhD in Environmental Studies) and ’12 (New England, MS in Sustainable Development and Climate Change) assumed the position of Purchasing and Contract Services manager for the City of Keene after previously working as environmentally preferred purchasing program coordinator. He will assist the city in working toward its sustainability goals.

  • Jessica Emerson McCormick ‘10

    Jessica Emerson McCormick ‘10 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) will be serving as Executive Director of the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation. She has worked in Jewish organizations, municipal government, and as a writer. Her new position will begin July 1, 2021. Jessica was selected after a national search and competitive selection process from…

  • Gwynne Garfinkle ‘06

    Gwynne Garfinkle’s ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) novel, Can’t Find My Way Home, will be published by Aqueduct Press. 

  • Lisa Croce ‘18

    Lisa Croce ‘18 (Los Angeles, BA in Liberal Studies) began her new role as a fiction editor at Variant Literatur piece. Her piece “Piano Forte” was published in Sentience Literary Journal. 

  • Rosemary Conroy ‘92

    Rosemary Conroy ‘92 (New England, MS) is a wildlife painter and naturalist who got creative with her new firehouse gallery space during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unable to allow guests inside, she brought her art to the community by turning the doors on the front of the firehouse into an evolving canvas of creatures to mark…

  • Kim Stoker ‘17

    Kim Stoker’s ‘17 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) poem, “Pitch the Baby,” from Folio of Poetry by Korean American Women Poets, appeared in Pleiades. Stoker’s poem, “Ibyanga, Segyehwa,” was published in Nat.Brut. 

  • Kimberly Ellingson ‘20

    Kimberly Ellingson ‘20 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) was accepted into the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s PhD program in Creative Writing. Her poem “Sparrow Haibun,” was published in Lost Balloon.  

  • Kavon Ward

    Community Organizer, Spoken Word Activist, and PhD in Leadership and Change student Kavon Ward, has teamed up with fellow activists in California to launch Anti-Racist Movements (ARMs) Around the South Bay (LA). The mission of ARMs is focused on “Mobilizing families to raise anti-racist children and enact change in our community through organized action.” The…