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Love of Living Beings Leads to Environmental Activism and Education
As a child, Dawn Murray walked the beaches of Santa Barbara after big storms looking for kelp holdfasts that had washed up on the sand. When she found one, she would search the bundle of slimy kelp to check for sea creatures that had ridden in with them and were now stranded on the inhospitable,…
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Reforming City Planning from the Intersection of Art, Activism, and Community
Tom Borrup lives in an apartment in the tower of a vast, converted 1920’s Sears building on East Lake Street in Minneapolis. Over the last decade this urban aerie has provided a home and office for him to write articles and books about planning and placemaking, to consult with cities and nonprofit arts organizations. In…
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An Interview with UEE Alum CJ Goulding
From Antioch University Seattle’s MA in Education with Urban Environmental Education (UEE) Program’s Alumni Journal. I am the Manager of the Community Leadership Development Program with the Children and Nature Network. I helped run the Fresh Tracks program bringing Native Alaskan and LA youth together for leadership training. I was recognized by NAAEE as one of 30…
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Where Do I Even Start?
Jillian Alden The most intimidating part of writing, for me, is getting started. I look at the assigned 5-, 10-, or 15-page paper and wonder how I could possibly go from a blank page to the fully formed paper with “graduate level writing” that I am expected to produce. I tend to look at that…
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Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis Announced as Presenter Roger Peterson Distinguished Speakers Series
The PsyD in Clinical Psychology program in New England is honored to announce Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis, Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University, as the presenter for the Roger Peterson Distinguished Speakers Series. She will be speaking on Healing the Wounds of Racial Trauma: Moving Toward Liberation. Dr. Bryant-Davis is a Psychology Representative at the UN World…
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Dr. Marti Straus Co-Authors Book
Dr. Marti Straus, Professor in the PsyD in Clinical Psychology program in New England, has co-authored a new edition of The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships (Guilford 2021) with renowned therapist Michael P. Nichols. “In this third edition of The Lost Art of Listening, Mike Nichols and I consider the profound…
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Thomas Doherty, PsyD ’02
Thomas Doherty, PsyD, an alum of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology program, is prominently featured in the article “Addressing climate change concerns in practice” in the American Psychological Association Monitor. In the article he states: A key feature of these changes is their ongoing nature, notes Thomas Doherty, PsyD, a practitioner in Portland, Oregon, whose…
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An Interview with UEE Alum Khavin Debbs
From Antioch University Seattle’s MA in Education with Urban Environmental Education (UEE) Program’s Alumni Journal. I’m currently the Partnerships Manager for Tiny Trees Preschool in Seattle, WA. My work is a mix of two passions: Early Childhood Education and the Environment. I just finished my graduate degree in Urban Environmental Education at Antioch University. My MAEd thesis…
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Gregory K. Finkelstein Joins Board of Governors
Gregory K. Finkelstein joined the Antioch University Board of Governors in October 2020. He currently chairs the Board’s newly formed Enrollment and Marketing Committee. Common Thread interviewed Greg in February about his motivation for joining Antioch and what he hopes to contribute over the coming years. Q: What about Antioch University do you find most…
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