Sitting in a lecture hall in 2007, one thing Stephanie Fox didn’t want to hear when she started studying to be a therapist was that many people leave the field after 18 months. “I experienced that as quite shocking,” she says. Just a few months into a three year program, the math wasn’t adding up to her if that was true. At the time, she wondered, “If I’m going to be in school longer than I might actually be in the field, how is this worth it?”
Atim Eneida George ‘20 (GSLC, PhD) will participate in Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she will attend the Summer Institute…
Heidi Sampson, a 2024 graduate of Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change, recently published her dissertation titled, An Internal and External Contextual Autoethnography of a Single Mother’s Experience as it Intersects with Misogyny, Patriarchy, and Hegemonic Masculinity.
In 2018, Chanté Meadows stood on a TEDx stage and addressed a problem that’s central to her career: why isn’t mental health treated as being equally important as physical health? In this instance, she was speaking specifically about how this pattern affects the Black community that she’s part of. Meadows outlined stigmas she often heard associated with mental healthcare. Friends and neighbors would say, “I’m going to just go to Jesus and pray about it.”
Excerpts from Laurien Alexandre’s 2023 Commencement Address to Graduates of the PhD in Leadership and Change
A Panel Discussion on the Seed Field Podcast
Anya Piotrowski, a 2023 graduate of the PHD Program in Leadership and Change, published her dissertation titled, Landscaping Wellness at Work: A Participatory Model for Worker-Centered Health.
This is the second in a five-part series on how alumni of Antioch’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change are advancing healthcare in service of the common good.
Lemuel Watson, EdD, Graduate School of Leadership and Change Professor of Inclusive Leadership and Change, recently participated in California Institute Integral Studies’ “Creative Futures Author Series.” Watson focused on the…
Shana Hormann ‘07 (GSLC, PhD) recently co-published the article entitled “Could an Organization Be Suffering from PTSD?” in the Organization Development Review. Hormann specializes in addressing organizational trauma, building organizational…
Fayth Parks, PhD, Graduate School of Leadership and Change (GSLC) Professor of Leadership and Psychology, was a recent guest on The Health Promotion Practice (HPP) Journal HPP Podcast entitled “Exploring…
“For somebody with substance use disorder in the U.S., there is only one story,” says Kathy Eggert. “That we believe people are not capable of self-agency and decision-making in a healthy way.” Eggert doesn’t believe that story, though, and she’s spent her career working against this narrative to provide care to people who use opioids through methadone maintenance treatment in ways that respect their humanity.