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Douglas Wear Featured in “Seattle Times”
Antioch University Seattle Community Counseling and Psychology Clinic director Doug Wear was recently featured in The Seattle Times. The article discusses the “Seattle Freeze,” which is the perception that Pacific Northwesterners make it hard to form new friendships. From the article: “‘This is not an area where we have good, hard research to talk about,’ [Wear]…
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Jeff Treistman
Alum Jeff Treistman is a man on a mission: equitable access to books and resources and strong school library programs for all students In 2015, Jeff Treisman, teacher librarian at Denny International Middle School in Seattle, was a key negotiator during the September Seattle School District teachers’ strike. Treistman worked through weekends and overnights to…
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Cindy Shapiro
Alum Credits “The Antioch Way” with Opening Doors to a Career in Opera BA in Liberal Studies Alum, Cindy Shapiro (’13), enrolled at Antioch University Los Angeles as a stepping stone to becoming an “invested Cantor” at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; instead, she wrote an opera. She explains: “Because I’d never actually…
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Andrea Tate
Social Justice, Her Way: a profile of Antioch alum and affiliate faculty If anyone should know Antioch University’s mission, it’s alum and affiliated writing faculty, Andrea Tate. After earning her undergraduate degree from Santa Barbara, her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Los Angeles, and now teaching writing back at Santa Barbara, she’s spent more than…
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Letter of Interest Signed for First ARTC Cohort
The first cohort of the School of Education’s Alternative Route to Teacher Certification (ARTC) program is close to graduating and becoming teachers! The ARTC program represents a strong partnership between Antioch University and the Kent School District. The program works to meet the needs of the district by promoting a “Grow Your Own” model in which paraprofessionals and…
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COLORS Director Cynthia Ruffin on LGBTQ Youth Counseling
“Our culture is evolving and we need to listen,” says Cynthia Ruffin, Community Relations and Recruitment Director of COLORS, counseling services at Antioch University Los Angeles that provides free counseling to LGBTQ youth under 25 as well as their family and/or partners. COLORS began in 2012 at Antioch as a student capstone project from the LGBT…
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The Power of Natural Hair in the Natural Environment
Denaya shorter Denaya Shorter is an alum of the Urban Environmental Education MAEd program at Antioch University Seattle, class of 2018. Denaya Shorter writes on the intersectionality of race, identity, and the environment. Denaya’s article brings the reader face to face with issues that are often experienced by people of color but rarely spoken allowed…
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Mark Light: Helping People Find Their Way to Successful Leadership
If you ask leadership coach and entrepreneur, Mark Light, how to become an effective leader you might be surprised by the answer. Light, who has worked as an arts impresario, full-time teaching professor, leadership coach, and writer for more than 25 years, says that the skill cannot be taught, people have to find their way…
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Antioch Graduate Explores Psychology and the World
Many of us only dream about living and working abroad, but some psychologists actually do it! What a surprise it was to one of our faculty members to open up a journal and hear about one of our own graduates doing just that. Barbara Landon, PsyD (Antioch 2004) has recently been featured in the May…
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