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Premier National Women’s Organization Names Alumna as Leadership Chair
The board of Women’s Media Center (WMC), a premier non-profit organization founded by writers and activists Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, has just unanimously elected PhD in Leadership and Change (PhDLC) alumna Dr. Janet Dewart Bell as its new chair. The WMC focuses on ensuring that women are accurately portrayed and visible in…
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Fighting the “Concrete Ceiling,” Antioch Relaunches Women in Leadership Certificate
Out of 500 Fortune 500 companies, precisely three are led by women of color. Hardly better, only 37 have women CEOs of any race. And these problems are replicated throughout leadership at every level. As women across the globe continue to face challenges and obstacles holding them back from leadership roles, Antioch University is launching…
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The Best We Can for Today
John Dunham When I sit down to write lately, hemmed in by COVID and various levels of quarantine, I don’t feel focused or productive. How do I write when everything is happening in the same place when work and life and chores and yesterday and next month have no edges to separate them? How do…
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Treating School Violence, William Ketterer Uses Theory and Effective Tools
“Violence is a failed attempt to hold people together,” says Dr. William Ketterer, psychologist and author of Reducing Anger and Violence in Schools: An Evidence-Based Approach. “Violence is like the spit-and-wish: something’s broken, you spit on it and hope that that will keep it together.” Unfortunately, from school shootings that make the national news to…
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Adult Ed Reformer and Anti-Racist Scholar Stephen Brookfield Joins Antioch as Distinguished Scholar
Geoffrey Himes “There’s only two ways you can do antiracist work—imperfectly or not at all,” says Stephen Brookfield, the scholar of critical pedagogy and antiracism who recently joined Antioch University as a Distinguished Scholar. As a white man working in antiracism (he co-wrote Becoming a White Antiracist, which will be published in 2021), Brookfield often…
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Alumnae Connect to Analyze Relationships and Race
PhD in Leadership and Change alumnae Drs. Froswa’ Booker-Drew and Harriet Schwartz recently joined together for a powerful discussion focused on race, power, privilege, and perspective. The Tapestry, a podcast aiming to bring people together to explore the rich, woven textures of shared narratives, is hosted by Dr. Booker-Drew who welcomed Dr. Schwartz to the episode entitled “Relationships…
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Using Frameworks to Plan for and Evaluate Conservation Psychology Outcomes | Conservation Psychology Institute Webinar Series
Many conservation organizations strive to accomplish ambitious conservation goals but lack the proper planning to clearly define their intended outcomes and subsequent metrics to use in evaluation. Taking the time to engage stakeholders in a planning process to identify appropriate, realistic conservation psychology outcomes can be hugely beneficial to an organization. Drs. Kubarek and Johnson…
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Alumna Highlights the Integration of Cultural Practices to Positively Impact Academic Learning for Black Students
Experienced educator and PhD in Leadership and Change alumna Dr. J. Love Benton has recently published her dissertation entitled, Culturally Collaborative Teaching: A Path Toward Black Student Learning. The focus of the research reveals a new framework for education, which Dr. Benton has termed Culturally Collaborative Teaching. The framework represents a path for Black student learning taking into account both Black and White teachers’ understandings…
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Addiction Treatment and Employment
How Antioch University Los Angeles Helps Students Find their Dream Career After Graduation Psychotherapists, addictionologists, and sober coaches; oh my! From work within the Malibu rehab system to one-on-one coaching and non-profit recovery management, the variety of jobs from which you can shape a career within the field is vast and varied. After obtaining your…
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