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.
“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
Bringing awareness to self-identity and privilege, Dr. Jude Bergkamp, Chair of Antioch Seattle’s Clinical Psychology Department, led a virtual workshop titled “Orbiting Social Privilege: The Gravity of
An Interview with Julie Sayres, Affiliate Faculty, MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media Julie Sayres is an award-winning screenwriter whose experience includes a successful career
When most people think of a classroom, they have a picture in their mind–and it isn’t usually of a correctional facility. Yet that’s exactly where
A core faculty member in the Undergraduate Studies program at Antioch University Seattle, B.J. Bullert is also a communication scholar and documentary filmmaker. Her company,
We sat down for a quick, get-to-know-you interview with Mike Akresh, new Environmental Studies faculty member at Antioch University and instructor for Ornithology and Quantitative
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,
Antioch LA Visiting MFA Faculty in fiction, Natashia Deón, is a NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Grace. Awarded the 2017 American Library Association’s Black
We make the world. Antioch—the ideal—needs each of us to strive for justice. As a writer who doesn’t (yet) have a book out, it’s easy
Science Teacher and Past-School Director at Compass School & Antioch University Adjunct Undergraduate: Biology, Colby College What prompted you to attend graduate school? “I came
by Liz Shemaria Mist fell from the trees in Monteverde, Costa Rica, as Dawn Murray stepped off the school bus on her way to work.
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