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Brian Floca Wins 2022 Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award For “Keeping The City Going”
Floca’s picture book is a tribute to the essential workers who stayed on the streets to keep their cities going during the Covid-19 pandemic. Antioch University Los Angeles’ Education Department is honored to announce Brian Floca as the 2022 Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award recipient for Keeping the City Going (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books.) The Horace Mann Upstanders…
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EdD Student Founds Yellow Springs Community Seed Library
Can planting a seed help change the world? Florentina Rodriguez thinks so. This Antioch student and alum today is realizing her dream of creating a more just and equitable society through a nonprofit she founded devoted to community-based seed-saving. This seemingly small act—keeping the seeds from plants that best survive a particular climate—is a long…
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Q&A With the Co-Editor of the Antioch Alumni Magazine
The latest annual edition of the Antioch Alumni Magazine recently came out both in hard copies sent to over 40,000 alums, and in a digital version available to everyone. It features stories about Antioch University and its impressive alums, especially those whose work has reverberated through their community—from addiction treatment to poet laureates. It made…
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Alumni Magazine Traces Common Thread Across Antioch’s Many Difference-Makers
“Most of our alumni come as accomplished people. Then, with additional tools and connections they learn at Antioch, they go on to make even more of a difference,” says Laura Andrews, Antioch’s Director of Institutional Advancement. There is no greater proof of the multitude of ways that Antioch alums make a difference than to read…
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Antioch Spotlight: Undergraduate Studies Alum Nina Louise
We recently caught up with Nina Louise, a writer and scholar exploring the intersection of Black and Asian cultures. After graduating from the Undergraduate Studies program at Antioch in Los Angeles, Louise is now studying for a PhD at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her writing can be found on the Little Tokyo Historical…
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An Antioch Instructor Helps Design a New City
Somewhere, in some heretofore ignored corner of the US—perhaps in the Nevada desert or upon the Appalachian plateau—a new city may grow. But where? And how? And to what end? These are some of the questions that engage Michael Simpson, a longtime Antioch New England faculty member, director of the Master of Science in Resource…
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International Women’s Day 2022
In the 1850s Antioch became the first college in the country to have a woman faculty member as equal to her male counterparts, and we are still working hard to forge gender equality in all fields. Antioch students and faculty are helping to create a world where all genders are equal and free from bias…
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While Working to Change State Law, Antioch Seattle Faculty Wins Award
“I don’t typically get awards,” says Dr. Steven Curtis, a faculty member at Antioch Seattle who just received the Washington Psychological Association’s Distinguished Service Award. As he says, “I always look at myself as a part of the machine, rather than an outlier.” But this modesty, and Dr. Curtis’s comfort in working behind the scenes,…
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A Statement of Solidarity & Support
The past few weeks have been difficult even against the backdrop of the ongoing pandemic, and we are writing to check in with you. During Black History Month, we saw an uptick in violence against AAPI people. On February 16, Julia Li was shot and murdered while she was driving in St. Paul, MN. Two…
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