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Earth Day 2022
Antioch University has a long history of working for climate justice and creating more sustainable communities. Unfortunately, even with all this past work, there are still few issues as urgent to our society as the climate crisis. This year on Earth Day we would like to take a look back at the Antiochians who we…
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GSLC Graduate Practices Generative Leadership and Diplomacy
Dr. Atim Eneida George has long felt the urgency of leadership. “I would take it back to my childhood,” she says. “Even though I was the youngest, I felt that I could exert or influence the situation by being poised.” Her young years were marked by navigating confusing social orders, first as the youngest child…
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With New Role, Writer Alistair McCartney Continues 25-Year Journey at Antioch
When a person’s student visa expires in the United States, finding a job becomes imperative. This was certainly true for the accomplished author Alistair McCartney, who is an alum of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Antioch Los Angeles and today serves as Teaching Faculty in both the MFA and that campus’s…
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Seattle Faculty Member Bequeaths Scholarship to Support BIPOC Students
“My first memory of Sandi is her laugh,” says Dr. Colin Ward, describing his late Antioch Seattle colleague Dr. Sandra Meggert. “She had the ability to hold space, to allow humor to be a way to talk about pain, about grief.” After Meggert’s death in 2016, many found that she had left this behind: a…
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Hope in a Time of War, Oppression, Uncertainty, and Grief
As world and national events have unfolded in the first months of the new year, I have been feeling deep concern, anxiety, and a sense of loss, feelings that I know I share with many of you in the Antioch community. The last few weeks especially have been a time of accelerating horror on many…
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Activist Works at Intersection of Gender Diversity and Autism
“So many of us don’t get appropriate sex education,” says Jack Duroc-Danner, an activist working to help non-autistic individuals to be more aware of the differences and needs of gender diverse and autistic individuals. “It’s also about being mindful about language,” says Duroc-Danner. Appropriate sex education is a key part of the work that needs…
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Alum Uncovers Racial Dominance in Day-to-Day Professional Workplace Discourses
As a child, Cherie Bridges Patrick was aware of racial categories in American society. She understood that she and her family were racialized as Black, and she moved through her early childhood protected by the religious practices in which she and her older brother and sister were raised. While race and racism were acknowledged, they…
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Passion for Treating Addiction Leads to Receiving New Memorial Scholarship
“I have this vision of a different, more alternative way of healing that’s not just sitting in blank, stale rooms,” says Tracy Lee. “I want to move people outdoors and into nature, to use creative healing approaches, creative therapy, and ecotherapy for change.” These dreams are personal for Tracy Lee—in her own life, it was…
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Degree Nurtures Passion for Supporting People at Work
Emily Sollie has worked in the non-profit sector for most of her career, but her ideas about what is possible in the field have expanded since she started her studies at Antioch. Although her recent work has focused on communications, in pursuing a Master of Business Administration at Antioch she has learned more about roles…
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