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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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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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