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  • Enacting Policies for Real Change: Kathy Hoffman

    Enacting Policies for Real Change: Kathy Hoffman

    Kathy Hoffman was slated for a retail career at Nordstrom, until a domestic violence incident changed her life. When Hoffman became deeply involved with her case’s legal process in the early ‘90s, she also became interested in the rule of law, and eventually, how public policy can affect people’s lives. More than 25 years later,…

  • Victoria Chang Awarded a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship

    Victoria Chang Awarded a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship

    Victoria Chang, Chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program was awarded a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship for 2020. The Lannan Residency Fellowship provides uninterrupted writing time for poets, writers, essayists, translators, scholars, curators, as well as Native American, environmental and social justice activists. “I’m looking forward to spending a few weeks in Marfa, Texas in…

  • Student Leading Higher Education Sustainability Efforts

    Student Leading Higher Education Sustainability Efforts

    PhD in Leadership and Change student Kelly Cerialo was recently named Director of the Global Center for Rural Resilience at Paul Smith’s College where she is coordinating sustainability initiatives in rural communities that focus on the United Nation’s seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. Climate Action, Responsible Production and Consumption, etc.). Learn more about Kelly here. 

  • Antioch Alumni wins 3K for Service Learning Project

    Antioch Alumni wins 3K for Service Learning Project

    Kristen Brock, Antioch University Environmental Education graduate was recently awarded a mini-grant from the Association for Middle-Level Education (AMLE) for her work with students at Colegio Americano de Guatemala.  Kristen’s project started as an AUNE practicum which she then developed into a service learning project to use in her professional career. Her focus was to…

  • Using Poetry as Vehicle for Change: MFA candidate, Margaret Kean

    Using Poetry as Vehicle for Change: MFA candidate, Margaret Kean

    For Margaret Kean, poetry has always been a part of her. But finding the courage to write and share it with the world has taken a long time. The MFA in Creative Writing program at Antioch has given her the courage to find and reveal her voice. As a child, Kean read poetry, and in…

  • AUNE Clinical Psychology Faculty Win Award for Mentoring Article

    AUNE Clinical Psychology Faculty Win Award for Mentoring Article

    AUNE Professors Lorraine Mangione and Kathi A. Borden, along with Assistant Professor Katherine Evarts know a thing or two about the importance of mentoring. Last year, the trio, alongside their colleagues at the University of Denver, published an article in Training and Education in Professional Psychology titled Mentoring in clinical psychology programs: Broadening and deepening.…

  • Adventuring in APA

    Adventuring in APA

    Vero lecocq Aspects of APA style are hard for me to swallow. Poetic lyricism is an important part of my writing repertoire, but APA papers have little use for the literary styles I love best. When I sit down to work on school assignments, I battle an overwhelming impulse to aesthetically embellish every composition. Why…

  • Harry Alston Jr.: Making a Career Out of Changing People’s Lives

    Harry Alston Jr.: Making a Career Out of Changing People’s Lives

    Dr. Harry Alston Jr., a 2010 graduate of the Leadership and Change program, has a personal mission: to develop and promote programs and initiatives that positively impact and empower individuals, organizations, and their communities. Alston has always adjusted course, to find the best way to work on social and economic justice throughout his life, and…

  • AUS Alum Nichole Klocksiem and PsyD Faculty Dr. Dana Waters Participate in GeekGirlCon Panel

    AUS Alum Nichole Klocksiem and PsyD Faculty Dr. Dana Waters Participate in GeekGirlCon Panel

    AUS Masters of Teaching alumna Nichole Klocksiem organized a panel called Queer and Geeky Educators Q&A for GeekGirlCon, an event that empowers girls to pursue their “geeky’ passions, whatever they might be. The panel presented on November 16, 2019, in downtown Seattle. The panel included educators from a variety of backgrounds who are equally passionate…