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SPRING SUMMER 2018 ANTIOCH A L U M N I THE ANTIOCH GENE Bestselling Author Daniel Jos Older Seven Strong Women Leading the Way in Sustainable Foods Mighty Mily Takes on the World Susan Southard s Nagasaki M A G A Z I N E

Live the mission Take a stand Win victories for humanity Stand Together Since 1852 Antioch has provided the space for ideas to blossom perspectives to widen and the pursuit of greater good but it is the combined voice of our alumni and students that has given us our enduring legacy of promoting justice and providing socially engaged learning We welcome you to continue your Antioch education with our on campus online and low residency degrees and classes ANTIOCH EDU

ENTOMOLOGIST SAM JAFFE 14 began exhibiting his photographs and organizing workshops in order to educate the public about caterpillars This passion transformed into The Caterpillar Lab a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about these underappreciated but undeniably awesome creatures in Marlborough New Hampshire Jaffe and his team of nature enthusiasts and educators many of whom are Antioch students or alumni are implementing research and educational initiatives locally and nationwide with the mission of helping native insects find their places in our everyday lives His elegant photographs of caterpillars on a neutral background elevate the often overlooked moth and butterfly caterpillars to objects of exquisite beauty His images appear on t shirts calendars posters greeting cards and even Pok mon like trading cards THECATERPILLARLAB ORG

W elcome to the first edition of Antioch University s alumni magazine The amazing stories we share here highlight the endless ways our alumni embody the Antioch spirit You may have graduated from different campuses with different degrees and at different times but you all share the same Antioch DNA You are changemakers standing together to positively impact your communities Your ongoing service to local national and global communities continually renews our commitment to stand boldly for Antioch University s mission of preparing students for the evervital work of winning victories for humanity Antioch is boldly informing and participating in shaping the future In these pages you hear about many alumni who are doing just that like David Mayer who is greening behind the scenes at events like the Super Bowl and David Haase who shares his AEA experience in Vietnam Read about strong women who studied in the 60s and 70s and fought for equality and recent alumni who are leading the charge for food equality From Susan Southard whose book Nagasaki Life After Nuclear War earned her the Dayton Peace Prize to Daniel Jos Older whose book Shadowshaper was named one of Esquire s 80 Books Every Person Should Read Antioch alumni are making a difference Antioch is moving forward with many innovative initiatives that are anchored in the university mission Some highlights include Creation of a new structure that unifies academic departments across the university making possible the innovations of one campus benefiting the whole university system Students can study in more places and modalities than at any time in our history New online courses are making an Antioch experience more accessible to students across the nation We are attracting students who believe in our mission and values and in our ability to stand with them as they discover reinvent and take courageous next steps for their lives Development of new travel opportunities for alumni we just completed our first ecotourism trip to Poland and we are looking forward to more of these kinds of opportunities in the future Newly formed workforce development programs are aligned with the Antioch mission of serving the larger and often more vulnerable members of our communities New Degree Plus and continuing education programs are in development to promote lifelong learning among the Antioch community and beyond An innovative Donor Advised Fund is being designed to support both nonprofits nationally and Antioch University programs The world needs Antioch now more than ever We will continue to stand together with you our alumni community to make possible the achievement of our social and environmental justice mission Enjoy the stories and share your stories with us too Bill Groves Chancellor EDITORS Carol Krumbach Director of Development and Alumni Relations Cover photo by John Midgley CHANCELLOR S MESSAGE Karen Hamilton Marketing Manager DESIGNER Karen Drudi Marketing and Communications Designer PRINTER Hudson Printing Company Salt Lake City Utah CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Marc Blackbird 12 Victoria Chang Christa Daniels 03 17 Helen Doremus 19 Malia Gaffney 19 Karen Hamilton 17 Geoffrey Himes 72 Carol Krumbach Shanon Lee Marjorie McAtee Ellen Rachlin 01 Liz Shemaria Michelle Marie Wallace Charlotte West Shannon Wingard Terry Wolverton A D D R E S S U P DAT E S Please send address updates feedback and suggestions for future issues to alumni antioch edu or mail to Antioch University Alumni Magazine 900 Dayton Street Yellow Springs OH 45387

20 TABLE OF CONTENTS F E AT U R E S 8 Devastation Hits Close to Home Santa Barbara students and faculty share their stories of recovery after the fires and mudslides 12 Nature as the Classroom Meet David Sobel one of the nation s leading experts on nature based early childhood education 16 Mighty Mily Helping women farmworkers comprehend and confront their challenges 20 Change Agents for Food Justice Get to know alumni who are facilitating real world change 23 Nagasaki Life After Nuclear War Susan Southard discusses her 12 year project to tell the stories of survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing 26 Daniel Jos Older An interview with the bestselling author of Shadowshaper and Star Wars Last Shot 29 29 Visionaries Mike Metty 26 A recurring feature on key figures in Antioch history beginning with the story behind Antioch Maryland 36 The Road to Activism Seven Strong Women A roundtable discussion with 1960s 70s alumni including a pioneer in computer graphics an Oscar winner a retired Superior Court judge and other intriguing women 40 Disaster Shakti PsyD students and faculty provide counseling and caring in Haiti RECURRING 10 Climate Preparedness 42 AU Voices 44 Alumni News Notes 50 In Memoriam 54 Bookshelf 55 Literary Corner Antioch s Commitment to Sustainability The Antioch Alumni Magazine adheres to strict environmental printing standards and emphasizes reuse and conservation of resources at every step in the production process including clean air emissions recycling conservation of natural resources and waste reduction Our printer holds a triple chain of custody certification Forest Stewardship Council FSC Sustainable Forestry Initiative SFI and Programme for the Endorsement for Forest Certification PEFC 36 SPRING SUMMER 2018 3

q Soaring to New Heights Seattle alumnus Ed Warnock 93 CEO of the nonprofit Perlan Project was interviewed by news outlets around the world when Airbus Perlan Mission II set an altitude world record for gliders on September 3 2017 The engineless glider soared to more than 52 000 feet over the Patagonia region of Argentina putting the Perlan Project one step closer to its goal of reaching the edge of space We are celebrating an amazing victory for aerospace innovation and scientific discovery today and we re so thankful to all the volunteers and sponsors whose years of tireless dedication have made this achievement possible says Warnock of the historic achievement To reach such high altitudes the Perlan Project takes advantage of a weather phenomenon called stratospheric mountain waves wind currents that shoot straight up after hitting a mountain range Stratospheric mountain waves occur in only a few places on earth and only a few times of the year The purpose of the Perlan Project is to gather data on climate change and open up a world of new discoveries related to high altitude flight and space exploration The record breaking flight was widely featured in the media including Wired Magazine BBC News and USA Today WORLD RECORD Ja m e y arc sD OVER 52 000 FEET us rb Ai q Marching with PRIDE Photo courtesy of Challis Popkey 19 Antioch s Los Angeles and Santa Barbara campuses joined together June 10 to march in the annual Los Angeles Pride Parade honoring the evolution of the LGBT rights movement that started almost 50 years ago with the Stonewall Riots in New York City For over 40 years LA Pride has been a champion for equality diversity and inclusion in the LA community and beyond Faculty staff students and alumni marched through the streets of West Hollywood for equal rights for all members of the diverse LGBTQIA community 4 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE

Images courtesy of Allison Maria Rodriguez p Greetings from the Gal pagos The Boston Children s Museum is featuring an award winning multimedia installation by Allison Maria Rodriguez 03 The exhibition titled Wish You Were Here Greetings from the Gal pagos runs through September 29 2018 Wish You Were Here combines video photography drawings digital animation and performance to explore climate change and species extinction The installation has been described as placing the visitor within a magical realist landscape that activates a deeper form of connection with other species and our planet A Boston based interdisciplinary artist and first generation Cuban American Allison s work has been exhibited throughout the U S and internationally She has an MFA from Tufts University in addition to her BA from Antioch College She specializes in new media and film video installations which explore the limits of representation and the space in between meaning Allison received the grand prize at the 2017 Creative Climate Awards for Wish You Were Here and was recently awarded a 2018 Earthwatch Fellowship for a research residency at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre near Manitoba Canada to work on their Climate Change at the Arctic s Edge project u Excursion to Poland Photo courtesy of Stephen Stanne 77 Alumni traveled to Poland in April 2018 for a rare and unique ecotourism trip organized just for Antioch by the University College of Tourism and Ecology in Sucha Beskidzka During the week long trip the group investigated the cultural heritage and history of the region Some of the highlights included a tour of Krakow meeting with park officials at the Babia Gora and Tatra National Parks and visiting sites of Poland s profound history such as Oskar Schindler s factory the Rynek Underground and the Wieliczka Salt Mine Pictured right The group visited a Beskid agritourism farm where they took a walking workshop and learned to identify plant species and holistic use of herbs ending the day with dinner and entertainment at the farm SPRING SUMMER 2018 5

in the lives of LGBTQ youth GROWING UP in the Midwest Jessica Weissbuch 10 worked as a team leader for a youth organization that utilized mentors Though she moved to LA determined to pursue a career in TV production she was still drawn to activism Weissbuch began working with queer youth at a local LGBT center where she met volunteer and future wife Kayla Ryan who also attended Antioch Ryan attended summer camps as a child and fantasized about being a camp director As an adult she became acutely aware of the value of summer camp and how inaccessible it is to many Camp is a privileged white expensive experience says Ryan She aimed to provide something LGBTQ youth were not getting in a school environment We started researching how to start a camp and began raising money says Weissbuch For the first few years we ran Brave Trails on nights and weekends while we worked other jobs Now we are able to do it full time Brave Trails is a leadership camp for LGBTQ youth offering a mix of traditional camp activities like swimming archery theater and outdoor activities along with daily workshops on everything from ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE BY SHANON LEE body positivity and yoga to resume building and college prep Camp Brave Trails is the first camp of its kind in California and one of only nine in the United States Business leaders graduate students and members of the Peace Corps make up its team of mentors and volunteers It is a place where youth can feel proud and empowered Applicants must have an interest in developing leadership skills IF THEY WANT A VACATION THERE ARE OTHER CAMPS FOR THAT SAYS RYAN WE HAVE HAD CAMPERS GO HOME AND CREATE BLOGS FIGHT TO ESTABLISH LGBTQ CLUBS AT SCHOOL AND MEET WITH POLITICIANS ADDS WEISSBUCH Brave Trails receives referrals from parents educators and mental health counselors This year the camp will offer 40k in scholarships For some of our teens camp is the only place they feel seen and accepted says Ryan Our mission is to never turn away those who cannot pay LGBTQ youth deal with stress and depression at disproportionate levels As a licensed mental health professional I feel ethically responsible for our campers says Weissbuch who obtained her master s in clinical psychology with an LGBT concentration from Antioch University We have trained staff on hand to assist campers when issues arise so they can enjoy their time at camp In 2015 there were 46 campers by 2017 that number had grown to 115 The couple plans to expand to Maryland in the summer of 2018 Camp Brave Trails is located just outside of Los Angeles in the pines of the Angeles National Forest The new camp is located in the Catoctin Mountains of Western Maryland Jessica and Kayla were featured on AfterEllen com s list of Power Lesbians for starting Camp Brave Trails It is an honor and we are excited to be at the forefront says Ryan Photos courtesy of Brave Trails BRAVE TRAILS 6 Camp co founders make a difference

GIS Connects GEOGRAPHYwith Data Donors Help GIS Program Grow Photos Michael Moore by Marjorie McAtee Karen Hamilton 17 The GIS Center has been able to expand its capabilities and serve more students thanks to Dr Bruce Bedford and his wife Ann who have made several gifts earmarked for GIS initiatives over the past five years Through their generosity GIS courses and lab hours have expanded and in addition to courses on the New England campus a one year GIS certificate is now offered in Los Angeles in a mainly online format Dr Bedford a longtime member of the university s Board of Governors says GIS is an extremely valuable tool in so many arenas urban planning conservation issues clinical psychology evaluation work data analysis for membershipdriven nonprofits it s an extraordinarily useful resource and I believe Antioch can play a leadership role in providing GIS training across many fields He says he and his wife are proud to support this important work and proud to support a university of lifelong learners Each day significant and key decisions are being made thanks to data from Geographic Information Systems GIS GIS is a powerful platform for understanding and planning our world With GIS technology people can create their own digital map layers to help solve real world problems By relating seemingly unrelated data individuals and organizations can have a better understanding of patterns and relationships As GIS has become a vital decision support tool the national and international need for qualified professionals has grown at an unprecedented rate Antioch University New England offers an Applied Spatial Analysis for Geographic Information Systems GIS certificate that is also offered in Los Angeles A certificate in GIS provides students with skills that allow them to be a cut above the average graduate student that might have basic GIS skills It provides higher level skills and proficiency which is something that helps our students get jobs says Dr Peter A Palmiotto Environmental Studies program director Students in the Environment Studies department use GIS mapping to understand the threats facing species in a specific region or to study the effects of conservation practices on a local ecosystem but GIS skills aren t just for environmental scientists A background in GIS is useful for any professional who needs to understand unique patterns and relationships between multiple data points as they relate to cartography People working in many different fields use GIS technology in multiple ways Public health officials can track disease outbreaks monitor community resources and identify and locate vulnerable populations telecommunications professionals can use it to support more efficient service delivery teachers can help K 12 students put their lessons into Maps and mapping can geographic context scientists tell a story Palmiotto says can compare population statistics to resources such as drinking It s a phenomenal way to water and biologists are able to communicate with people even track animal migration There is no limit to the kind of information that can be analyzed using GIS technology GIS can create a database of the world reveal patterns trends and relationships if you can t speak the same language you have a map It s kind of like a musical instrument It makes a connection by Carol Krumbach SPRING SUMMER 2018 7

BY CHARLOTTE WEST DEVASTATION Hits Close to Home T he Thomas Fire was first reported on December 4 2017 at 6 26 p m As a result of dry conditions and intense winds what was at first a small brush fire quickly exploded in size consuming nearly 300 000 acres across Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and becoming the largest wildfire in modern California history In January 2018 while the area was recovering from the devastation of the fire heavy rains fell on the freshly burned hills in Santa Barbara County triggering massive mudslides and killing 21 people The Antioch University Santa Barbara community was directly impacted by these disasters I will never forget the sky that night says undergraduate student Marissa Miller First it was the deep blue of a clear December night Then it was an ominous black And finally a sick gray orange hemmed with red It was this sick gray orange sky that alerted her of the urgency to evacuate The fire spread really really quickly It was about a football field a minute she says We evacuated to my brother s house and waited for news Our house our home had burned to the ground Dr Barbara Lipinski Provost of Antioch University Santa Barbara was also forced to evacuate It was literally a firestorm that arrived in the middle of the night with extreme scorching heat 8 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE something I have never experienced There were shooting embers flying past me as I walked through the yard she says She immediately started to evacuate and gathered her pets into the car There was no time to pack so I rushed to the evacuation site at the fairgrounds Lipinski says When I came back to check on the house three of my neighbors homes had burned to the ground Dr Elizabeth Wolfson a faculty member in the clinical psychology master s program volunteered her skills as a therapist both on campus and in the community She helped others who did not directly experience the disaster with the trauma they felt Secondary trauma is a very real thing Wolfson says We were all impacted and it s affecting everyone The day after the January mudslides MBA student Stephanie Kaster who works as a construction project manager at Casa Dorinda a retirement community hiked into the site which was directly in the path of the debris flow Outside of the property was ground zero Kaster says I was one of the first responders There was so much mud There were boulders wrecked cars debris everywhere Kaster helped evacuate more than 300 residents MBA student Christina Kelly who also has a master s in social work also helped in the aftermath of the mudslides She offered emotional support near a Red Cross evacuation shelter A What stood on our property was no longer recognizable as our home says Miller All that remained were the front porch the chimney and the bathtub and showers Everything else every item I had taken for granted every item I passed by a thousand times everything my family had worked so hard for was gone

THE THOMAS FIRE DESTROYED 1 063 structures AND BURNED 281 893 acres AN AREA LARGER THAN NEW YORK CITY Photo courtesy of Marissa Miller Photo courtesy of Stephanie Kaster thousand hugs were not enough she says I observed people coming to the shelter dazed and in disbelief There were families who had nothing but a few belongings and clothes on their backs Kelly was also part of the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade which was instrumental in helping families dig out their homes following the mudslides Digging mud was therapeutic on so many levels MBA student Anne Wells says I was in the planning and intelligence section of the response feeding information to and from the Emergency Operations Director The demands at all levels of the response were staggering and relentless Wells says the disasters and subsequent recovery have been a powerful reminder It s very easy to forget that it doesn t take much to take away our sense of security and also how much AFTER THE THOMAS FIRE BEGAN capacity we have IT WAS OFFICIALLY DECLARED to rise above Nearly six months OUT ON JUNE 1 2018 MONTECITO MUDSLIDE Photo courtesy of Marissa Miller 21 REPORTED DEATHS 63 PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED 2 PEOPLE STILL MISSING Photo courtesy of Stephanie Kaster SPRING SUMMER 2018 9

7 WAYS TO MOTIVATE ACTION FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE By Dr Christa Daniels from the Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience While the majority of the American public know the climate is changing and say they are concerned about the impacts action on the issue is low This is a result of numerous sociocultural and psychological factors In particular people lack personal worry about the issue and are unsure of specific solutions and their ability to make a positive difference Here are seven ways we can spur civic engagement to help us achieve the political will and public support for climate resilient communities 1 Focus on the local Keep the conversation relevant to folks by talking about local impacts 2 ivot quickly from impacts to P solutions Whenever you talk about impacts make sure you quickly pivot the conversation to the solutions that can be undertaken to address the problem Individuals are known to disengage from an issue when they are scared or feel disempowered to take action Switching quickly to solutions helps overcome this paralysis of fear 3 Promote practical solutions that are here and now Reinforce we have many solutions already in our arsenal to tackle this issue Clean energy is already here and is competitive with traditional fossil fuels 7 Articulate what will get better if action is taken State the problem you want to overcome talk about the solutions and choices you can take for a positive outcome and always include the multiple benefits our communities will experience by taking action Communicate expert consensus There is research that posits this is the situation where numbers and figures are effective Stating that 97 percent of peerreviewed climate scientists agree the climate is changing and is human caused actually works 4 6 Attendees at the 2018 Local Solutions Eastern Climate Preparedness Conference which was geared for small government planners and decision makers striving to create healthy resilient communities Begin with what audiences care about Think about the dominant values of your community members and communicate the benefits of climate resilience that emphasize and reaffirm their values 5 Use language intelligence Emphasize collective action talk about what we can do use repetition and talk in short words Avoid the use of acronyms or scientific jargon that is hard for people to understand Never tell people what they should do using the word YOU Remind people that we can do this together and that we are innovative strong and capable of creating vibrant strong and thriving communities 10 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Photo Kathryn Downey Antioch s Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience headquartered on the New England campus works to strengthen communities to prepare respond and recover in the face of climate impacts and other disruptions through collaborative innovative solutions It delivers applied research consulting education and training The focus is on stakeholder capacity building at the local scale and on building community resilience nationally and internationally The Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience s 2018 Eastern Climate Preparedness Conference was held in early May in Manchester NH It was a huge success drawing more than 340 participants from 21 states and Canada The conference covered a range of climate preparedness and resiliency issues such as sea level rise urban heat and both coastal and inland flooding issues The conference was hosted in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA The presentation materials are available to download and review at communityresilience center org

GREENING BEHIND THE SCENES from the Super Bowl to a Presidential Inauguration to the PGA Tour B Y L I Z S H E M A R I A Mountains of trash destined for landfills could be the result of the United States most high profile events without people like co founder of Two Owls Sustainability Partners David Mayer 10 Mayer an Antioch New England master s grad in Resource Management and Conservation sees the potential environmental issues with concerts tournaments games and even presidential inaugurations and is determined to solve them Since graduating and launching a sustainability consulting business that was born from part of his Antioch master s project Mayer has dedicated his career to finding waste management solutions for events like the 2013 inauguration of President Barack Obama PGA golf tournaments and Super Bowl LII Often sustainability isn t high on the list says Mayer So you have to make it as easy and simple and as non evasive as possible to get buy in The task of planning for an event that is attended by thousands begins months in advance For Super Bowl LII in February 2018 Mayer says the orchestrating started months earlier to help host city Minneapolis achieve a zero waste event That process included attending a football game at U S Bank Stadium in October 2017 for a feasibility study American Maintenance s Waste Diversion Program at Super Bowl LII Live presented by Verizon in Minneapolis Minnesota Nearly 40 percent of all material was removed from the overall waste stream and diverted to local Minneapolis nonprofits David Mayer at MLB Marlins Park in Miama Florida examining every type of trash all 38 tons to pinpoint products that might go to a landfill Mayer s team then found alternatives for items that could be recycled or composted and solutions for donating or reusing items that could be left behind One surprising discovery was a massive quantity of handbags because they are not allowed in the stadium The feasibility study led to the stadium placing donations bins at the entrances to avoid waste on game day There were also unexpected problems to be solved when Mayer worked on President Obama s 2013 inauguration parade We didn t have the freedom to do what we wanted because of the security Mayer says You can t just have recycling bins where you want them to be Along the parade route one of the tasks for Mayer s team was to ensure horse manure was composted a multi component plan that was definitely a challenge Mayer explained that because of the parade s visual presentation workers needed to clean so they were following the formation of the parade s movement toward Pennsylvania Avenue That included having 85 employees cleared for Secret Service background checks and trained by the Infantry branch of the U S Army No matter the job or how complicated it is for Mayer there s a big payoff I get to marry my loves sustainability and environmentalism with sports and entertainment 50 78 tons 11 98 tons 2 3 tons 36 5 tons 21 5 tons TOTA L TO N N AG E H AU L E D R E C YC L E D COMPOSTED TRASH COMBUST TOTA L D O N AT I O N S R E M OV E D F RO M WA S T E S T R E A M Recovered wood otherwise destined for landfill was donated to Habitat for Humanity Re Store and used to build birdhouses that were sold for charity and used in Minneapolis public parks SPRING SUMMER 2018 11

Nature as the Classroom by Karen Hamilton 17 A group of children collect and count acorns another group makes soup with water from a puddle pine cones and grass Later they climb on and sometimes slip off logs they examine earthworms and other bugs they have found collect mushrooms make flower tiaras and discuss what might have caused a tree to fall David Sobel 72 senior core faculty member at Antioch New England has spent the last 40 years working in the fields of child development place based education and parenting with nature He is one of the nation s leading experts on nature based childhood education Young children need more nature in their lives Sobel says and nature based education is a way to make sure they get it Positioning nature at the heart of the curriculum stimulates creativity arouses curiosity and gives children a deep respect for the outdoors Sobel says The forest schools movement has been thriving in Europe for the last three decades and has recently taken root in the United States Nature based early childhood education places kids outside for periods ranging from one day a week to every day Over the past decade more than 250 schools around the country have adopted it 12 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE While students are engaged in these projects they learn language arts math science social studies as well as essential problem solving and social skills through their involvement with nature Sobel says Sobel has written or cowritten eight books on nature based education including his most recent book Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens The Handbook for Outdoor Learning Redleaf Press 2015 Nature Preschools gives early childhood educators a roadmap for teaching in outdoor classrooms Children in nature based programs have plenty of unstructured playtime in which to interact with each other There is more space given for kids to work out their own issues which helps their social interaction skills and problem solving The children learn resiliency confidence and perseverance which are the foundation for increased motivation and improved academic performance Sobel says Being outside gives the kids a chance to restore their attention so that when the teacher calls the group together to learn letter recognition using forest pencils sticks they can stay engaged

Both the New England and Santa Barbara campuses offer a Nature Based Early Childhood Education Certificate that trains teachers administrators and founders of nature preschools and forest kindergartens It is one of the only higher education programs of its kind in the country a forest preschool in Montpelier VT I m outside every day with preschoolers and it just feels like the right thing for them Hart says Nature based education is focused on love respect and being a part of the natural education and these programs and educators fully prepare young children for successful academic careers and fulfilling personal lives Academic achievement is important but the sole function of a school shouldn t Sobel collaborates with colleague Ellen Doris to offer the In Bloom conference series across the country The conferences share the work of some of the best nature based early childhood educators Each conference features nationally and internationally recognized speakers and workshops led by local practitioners In Bloom events have been held across the country in Jackson WY Brattleboro VT and Asheville NC to name a few All In Bloom events focus on the educational and health benefits of children being in the natural world When you play together create artwork together sing together or do something together that has an inherent communitybuilding aspect and that s more true than if you sit in a room and listen to somebody talk at you and have no interaction with the people around you Sobel says That theory is true for the adults who attend In Bloom and it is just as true for the kids they teach back at home world Hart found her way to Antioch after reading Sobel s book Wild Play Sierra Club Books 2011 Harriet Hart who earned her MEd from Antioch New England in 2016 teaches at Sobel fervently believes that all children can benefit from nature based early childhood David Sobel leads a workshop for early childhood educators be to turn out good test takers says Sobel Students need to explore their communities and environments so they develop context and understand the world around them to become thoughtful impactful and civicminded leaders SPRING SUMMER 2018 13

Bringing Mental Health Services for Vets to the Forefront by Liz Shemaria When Dr Mark Russell was the only psychologist supporting mental health needs for 6 000 United States Marines on a base in Japan he knew the system had to change to ameliorate a widespread crisis T he shortage in staffing was chronic and widely known but the military failed to respond says Russell who became a psychology professor at Antioch s Seattle campus in 2009 after retiring from 26 years in the American military He served as a Marine Sergeant a Navy Commander and a military psychologist deployed in support of the Iraq invasion in 2003 Russell says he was a whistleblower for recognizing this issue and how it was also affecting civilians returning home from service To support his mission to increase access to military psychological services Russell working with an advisory board that includes war correspondents and other experts founded Antioch s Institute of War Stress Injuries Recovery and Social Justice The institute is primarily focused on research and advocacy Russell notes there were times in U S history when mental health services were more accessible such as during the Civil War and World War II and the institute is also focused on creating awareness of that issue Treating problems early and aggressively with a support system in the military makes the military accountable Russell explains The institute brings to attention that we used to do this and we stopped doing it The War Stress Institute s work is supported by Antioch faculty and graduate students and has included the publication of books and more than 20 articles and book chapters collaborations on documentary films and even work on legislation to be presented to Congress as part of a bill within the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act 14 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Russell s groundbreaking research on war trauma was featured in the film Thank You for Your Service an award winning feature length documentary narrated by Gary Sinise It premiered in 2015 and illustrates the epidemic Russell first recognized A new book Uphill Challenge Transforming the Dark Side of Military Mental Healthcare is slated to be published by the end of 2018 or early 2019 A documentary covering the institute s work Strangers at Home is currently under development Since the institute s founding Russell has seen an increase in military psychological training and treatment access He says this work is also part of a larger national effort The military has always been a change agent for society and now we are asking the military to take on mental health as the next social justice issue to lead the way for the private sector Mark Russell

In Laos Haase became friends with a group of journalists They spent time talking in noodle houses and Haase eventually worked as a journalist His stipend worked out to about 60 dollars a month so he spent most of his time reading and writing and walking everywhere Although he was a student and needed to take notes for papers he had to write he also wrote just to write I didn t Ultimately Hotel Constellation is about so much more than Haase s story In it he interweaves three main threads his personal experience the history of Laos and the secret war that America was waging there With Hotel Constellation Haase also peels away the layers of secrecy around the war Haase says in the book I experienced things that almost no one of my generation could match but I left so many opportunities on the table to learn more see more travel more do more understand more Regardless he challenges anyone to come up with a better AEA experience than he had Antioch Alum Publishes Memoir of his AEA Experience David H aase Eventually Haase gave up on getting into Vietnam and left Thailand for Laos which is where he stayed for the next two years years he considers his AEA experience although he was technically on AEA for a year This year Haase released his memoir Hotel Constellation Notes From America s Secret War In Laos about his time abroad and the war going on around him When Haase finally returned home he brought all his journals with him and has kept them with him ever since Although he started working on his book in the 90s it wasn t until his wife was diagnosed with cancer that Haase sat down with his eight boxes of journals and finished Hotel Constellation at her urging urtesy of As he says he was probably the only draft age American man trying to get in to Vietnam On landing in Vietnam Haase s six month visa was invalidated and he had to leave the country He went to Thailand where he and Antioch administrators tried to get a new visa issued have a vision of a book 45 years later or anything else In his journals he tackled everything from a daily journal to what life was like to studies on the Laos economy genealogies of the elite families cultural anthropology of the hill tribes involved in the war there I just wrote about everything because I was hanging out with guys who wrote and read Photos co In 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War David Haase 73 arrived in Vietnam for his Antioch Education Abroad Photo Don Ronk David Haase interviewed Jane Fonda on the tarmac of the Wattay Airport as she returned from her 1972 trip to North Vietnam by Michelle Marie Wallace SPRING SUMMER 2018 15

ighty ily BY CA RO L K RU M BAC H S H A N N O N W I N GA R D Leading the Women Farmworkers Movement A s a 16 year old citrus farm worker in California s Coachella Valley Mily Trevi o Sauceda 14 dreaded the sound of the oncoming tractor More than 30 years later she can remember the anxiousness and fear she felt as the sound of the vehicle driven by her crew leader and sexual harasser drew nearer At the time Mily was assisting her father along with a group of others in being the first to organize the local citrus farmworkers with the United Farm Workers of America She was passionate about helping her father with this work which she believed would carve a better life for her family and others in the community However after telling her father about the harassment she was experiencing Mily realized that despite the progress being made there were some issues still too taboo to discuss So I just silenced myself she says As a young adult Mily worked as an activist for the California Rural Legal Assistance Migrant Project and she co founded Mujeres Mexicanas Mexican Women in the Coachella Valley During those years she may have tried but couldn t forget the harassment she had repeatedly experienced When she helped her sister in law create a survey for female farmworkers and read the results Mily knew she could no longer remain silent This is when I realized how many women have gone through the same and worse experiences she says I was angry and 16 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE felt we needed to do something about it We didn t know what but it was up to us In 1992 she co founded Lideres Campesinas a statewide advocacy organization for campesinas female farmworkers and served as executive director until 2009 when she stepped down to pursue her master s degree at Antioch University She learned about Antioch from one of her mentors Starry Krueger President of the Rural Development Leadership Network RDLN Mily credits her graduate studies with allowing her to reexamine her life and decide what her mastery should be Ultimately she decided continuing to organize was her true passion In 2011 Mily co founded Alianza Nacional de Campesinas National Trevi o Sauceda spent Alliance of a decade working in Farmworker the fields of the eastern Women Alianza Coachella Valley in CA one of the largest agricultural now serves more regions in the country than 700 000 The area is home to about women ending 15 000 farmworkers who workplace are among the most economically challenged exploitation of farmworker women in the state and all farmworkers is one of their top priorities It made sense to me that that was the next step All these years I had met women who were interested in trying to be part of this network we had Mily says Alianza made headlines on Nov 10 2017 when Time magazine published a powerful letter from the group proclaiming solidarity with Hollywood

actors and praising survivors of sexual assault who had come forward Alianza s Dear Sisters letter was a watershed moment in the emerging Time s Up movement Weeks later the Time s Up alliance published their own Dear Sisters letter signed by 300 prominent Hollywood figures saying To the members of Alianza and farmworker women across the country we see you we thank you and we acknowledge the heavy weight of our common experience of bring preyed upon harassed and exploited by those who abuse their power and threaten our physical and economic security The Women s World Summit Foundation deemed Mily the leader of the women farmworkers movement in the U S and awarded her a global prize in 2016 for creative approaches to help women farmworkers comprehend and confront their challenges One thing is clear for this dynamic woman who s been called the leader of the women farmworkers movement in the United States Organizing will always be her true mastery Photo No Montes The Women s World Summit Foundation deemed Mily the leader of the women farmworkers movement in the U S and awarded her a global prize in 2016 for creative approaches to help women farmworkers comprehend and confront their challenges SPRING SUMMER 2018 17

AD AM JOHN S Game to Grow Photos courtesy of Game to Grow BY C H A R LOT T E W E S T N ot only do Adam Johns 13 and Adam Davis 14 share the same first name they also share a passion for gaming and helping young people develop social skills creativity and confidence In September 2017 the two Antioch alums launched Game to Grow which runs therapeutic social skills groups for kids using tabletop games Game to Grow is a spinoff from Johns and Davis previous for profit venture Wheelhouse Workshop which they started as graduate students at Antioch University Seattle The two met while Davis was earning his MAEd with a focus in drama therapy and Johns was completing an MA in couple and family therapy Their collaboration began when Davis invited Johns to join him at a part time job as a facilitator for a drop in group where kids could play role playing games a cooperative game where players take on roles of specific characters who then work together to achieve tasks in a fantasy realm of dwarf barbarians goblins and other characters It sounded like the best job ever says Johns Drawing on the training they received at Antioch the two soon realized that the game s potential and its applications for therapy went beyond a social activity We started seeing the real power of using role playing games in an intentional way to work on specific skills and goals for the players Johns says ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE AM DAV I S Gaming is an amazing way to create growth and insight by giving the young person an opportunity to see the strengths of their character as their own strengths and then carry not only those strengths those skills but also the confidence that comes from being a hero into their real life Davis adds Many of the young people they work with are diagnosed with autism attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or social isolation They currently run five groups for youth ages 9 to 20 and hope to offer more in the future Game to Grow has applied for official IRS tax exempt designation as a 501c3 entity after which they will seek grant funding Johns and Davis want to eventually work with more types of games and other demographic groups such as veterans as well as provide training to other therapists to use gaming in their own professional practices Gaming is an amazing way to create growth and insight by giving the young person an opportunity to see the strengths of their character as their own strengths and then carry not only those strengths those skills but also the confidence that comes from being a hero into their real life 18 AD One of Game to Grow s first projects is the launch of Critical Core a kit that helps therapists and parents use role playing games to teach social skills As a nonprofit we will be able to reach broader audiences and to utilize a broader subset of games We have an opportunity to make it bigger than just the two of us Johns says

Healthy living chef and wellness expert Charles Chen 13 seems to be everywhere these days The 29 year old is an ambassador for the American Heart Association and has appeared on the Food Network s Chopped Dr Oz and many other shows as well as hosting his own TV show He s a popular presenter at Whole Foods and Williams Sonoma stores nationwide and headlines popular events such as the New York Food Wine Festival and the Los Angeles Green Expo We caught up with him recently in Los Angeles SHARING A PASSION TO HELP OTHERS GET HEALTHY Tell us about the transformation you went through What are you working on now that most excites you At one point in my life I struggled with my weight and I was a hundred pounds heavier and pre diabetic I ve since reclaimed my health through healthy cooking and releasing shame and guilt from my childhood that I held on to while learning to deal with my parent s divorce and finding my own identity as a gay Asian American Now my passion is to help others reclaim their health through recipes inspiration and healing our inner child wounds I am working on my first lifestyle cookbook that will include delicious recipes and lifestyle tips I have found helpful along my journey such as meditation forgiveness and releasing shame One of my favorite things to do is create quality content we are always sharing recipes inspiration and interviews on my website My career launched really through my rock bottom I believe I experienced my transformation for a reason and I have dedicated my life to helping others achieve health through mind body and spirit What set the stage for your current success It all comes back to bringing more value I understood that my past was not only a shadow but an opportunity to help others who may be going through the same experience If I could help one person then I have done my job paying it forward I realized we all eat food and food has such an emotional connection with our childhood Food is also a way people use to cope with emotions so I wanted to dive deeper and explore our connection to food I never set out to build a brand I just shared authentically and people were interested The best I did was not giving up when I couldn t see the how staircase What did you take away from your Antioch experience I finished my AA at Santa Monica College and applied to schools in New York and Los Angeles I was accepted into many but I was drawn to Antioch s social justice and community support I enjoyed that classes were intimate and I got to personalize my educational journey I had a chance to work hands on with professors and got very close to an admissions counselor who helped me navigate my time at Antioch I truly believe my career path was shaped by the lessons I learned while in school it was during my time at the University where I honed in on marketing social justice and was driven to make a difference in the world CHOCOLATE AVOCADO MOUSSE Recipe courtesy of Charles Chen INGREDIENTS 2 very ripe avocados 4 T cacao powder or cocoa powder 3 4 T pure maple syrup or honey 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 2 T freshly squeezed orange juice 1 tsp orange zest Dash of pink salt Cacao nibs coconut and raspberry optional for topping INSTRUCTIONS Combine all ingredients in a food processor Process until very smooth and mousse like Add more sweetener or orange juice to taste Chill for at least 20 minutes before serving Top with cacao nibs coconut and raspberry or serve garnished with an orange slice or chocolate shavings Enjoy Get more recipes at CharlesChen tv SPRING SUMMER 2018 19

CHANGE AGENTS FOR FOOD JUSTICE by Liz Shemaria Keene Community Garden Connections volunteers and staff celebrate a harvest Across the United States and the world Antioch alumni are contributing to a movement toward greater food justice From urban gardens to local and national food programs to carbon neutral farming practices they are facilitating real world change SUPPORTING FARMS AND FARMERS M aking food more accessible starts with creating connections with farmers on every scale and Elizabeth Bowman 12 an Urban Sustainability MA grad from Antioch Los Angeles knows about that firsthand Bowman who now manages the Hollywood Farmers Market helped farmers in Los Angeles access the tools needed to create profitable businesses while working on her master s project That work resulted in a toolkit for farmers to streamline the process of certifying backyard produce to sell at farmers markets The toolkit and the connections Bowman made as a student are now integral to her work in the community Looking at farming on a larger scale across the United States Antioch Seattle MA in Environmental Justice grad Jonathan Reinbold 10 works as the sustainability research and grants manager at Organic Valley a Southwestern Wisconsin based cooperative founded in 1988 which is now the nation s largest farmer owned Elizabeth Bowman 12 20 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE

organic cooperative and one of the world s largest organic consumer brands While studying at Antioch Reinbold learned the concepts of organic farming and cooperatives when he read the book Organic Inc Natural Foods and How They Grew A small co op which was helping farmers achieve a better living wage was mentioned Nearly eight years after graduation Reinbold was browsing through that book and realized the cooperative highlighted Jonathan Reinbold 10 was the now expanded Organic Valley where he works I was blown away that I was now working at the same place that had inspired me as a student says Reinbold PROMOTING HYPERLOCALLY GROWN FOOD Aquaponics has gotten a bad rap The first thing people think of is the tomato that doesn t taste good says Ann Aqua Annie Forsthoefel 01 an Antioch Midwest graduate living in Portland OR Growing in a soilless medium you have to add some sort of nutrient to it to feed the plants and in aquaponics it is the introduction of fish Aquaponics is a system for farming fish and plants together in a symbiotic environment It combines aquaculture and hydroponics When you add the two together you get magic says Aqua Annie The fish live in the water in the bottom of the tank The plants grow in the top half of the tank The fish waste feeds the plants through the work of microbes and the plants clean the water for the fish Aquaponics uses considerably less water than soil farming or hydroponics alone Systems can be built to fit any space even in the smallest backyard or garage I want everything to be as hyperlocal as possible Instead of food miles I d like to see food feet adds Aqua Annie Aquaponics MAKING HEALTHIER CHOICES MORE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE healthy food to the Keene community continuing the path from her time as a student I wanted to grow some roots here and build a network and the Antioch program was the ideal place to do that says Littleton It was a great opportunity for me to get a feel for our community and get a sense of what was available and happening Littleton and the Cheshire Conservation District are spearheading several projects to help local farmers get fresh produce to more low income families They include the installation of EBT machines to accept payments through SNAP benefits and three years ago the district launched a produce buying club with housing authority Keene Housing where a truck arrives from local farms once a week to deliver food at reduced prices It s work that directly ties into Littleton s career focus I ve always been interested in the interactions of people and their landscapes and that led me to wanting to work with farmers and people who are earning their living from the land she says Food cooperatives on a smaller scale are also getting more fresh produce into family kitchens Bonnie Hudspeth 08 an MS in Sustainable Community Development grad is directly involved with that work as the member programs manager for Neighboring Food Co op Association The organization collaborates with more than 35 groups across Vermont New Hampshire Connecticut Massachusetts and Rhode Island and in 2016 had more than 5 000 collective members My career is built around food co ops as a vehicle for creating thriving healthy and just food systems and an economy owned and controlled by and accessible to everyday people says Hudspeth Hudspeth s path to working with cooperatives where a business is operated and owned by multiple employees and members began while she was pursuing her master s degree Then Hudspeth fellow environmental studies student Katie Stoner 08 and Antioch alum Amanda Littleton 07 with the assistance of several other Antioch alums organized a year round food cooperative in Keene NH The Monadnock Food Co op now provides a community owned market of Bonnie Hudspeth 08 local farmers and producers Hudspeth says Co ops like Monadnock tie into the values of Antioch Growing up on a farm led Antioch New England and the goal of empowering the next generation professor Dr Libby McCann toward an academic Littleton who now works as director of the Cheshire career focused on sustainable agriculture She now County Conservation District is still involved with getting guides students to follow their paths to supporting food justice as director of the Environmental Education concentration within the Environmental Studies department In 2011 McCann along with Antioch students and faculty launched Keene Community Garden Connections an organization that provides fresh produce and sustainable food education programs to the Keene community In 2015 the organization donated 4 326 pounds of food to groups and organizations We always say at Antioch be the change you want to see in the world and this is an opportunity for students to do exactly that says McCann of the Keene Community Garden where Antioch students and faculty work on agriculture and sustainability service learning and research projects Amanda Littleon 07 SPRING SUMMER 2018 21

Keene Community Garden RENEWABLE ENERGY AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Looking at sustainability on a grand scale is also a focus for Reinbold at Organic Valley The company is working toward a business goal of carbon neutral operations by 2022 which has translated to investments in renewable energy over the last eight years and a Community Solar Project that will break ground near the company s headquarters in Southwestern Wisconsin later in 2018 Reinbold says the project will increase solar production in the state of Wisconsin by 15 percent reduce fossil fuels and benefit communities in the area To him this is a clear example of lasting change A term that was used a lot at Antioch was being change agents Before Antioch I had never really heard that term and I didn t know what it meant says Reinbold Now it is recognized as the core of what my team and I do every day We are seeking to change how this 30 year old business makes decisions and what it prioritizes in different ways Antioch s food justice department is also making strides beyond the local community by taking part in an initiative through the North American Association for Environmental Education called ee360 The cohort which includes Stanford University of Oregon and the National Park Service among other major institutions is supporting innovative environmental education across the country Students involved in these various initiatives consistently go on to serve as leaders in the field which is truly exciting to see unfold says McCann Yahaye Tahirou 92 is one such leader Since earning an MA in Environmental Management through Antioch University Midwest and Antioch New England he has worked for United Nations organizations and other NGOs in Africa for about 26 years in food security resilience and self reliance Yahaye Tahirou 92 Environmental degradation soil unproductivity and natural shocks such as drought and flooding are major causes of food insecurity in Niger which is one of the poorest countries in the world where food insecurity is chronic Tahirou explains He worked for a USAID funded project called Famine Early Warning System Network as a national representative and then as a regional adviser for Sierra Leone and Liberia for about ten years collecting analyzing and reporting on food security conditions and implementing food security projects Since then Tahirou has worked for U N organizations and various international NGOs in eight African countries contributing to better understanding of food security conditions and providing decision makers with information data and advices for intervention Tahirou is currently drafting a global self reliance strategy for poor host communities and refugees in Farm in Africa 22 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Mauritania aimed at strengthening their income sources sustainably to enable them to take care of themselves Tahirou says the project will provide humanitarian assistance financial products and income generating activities to the poorest to cover their basic needs and strengthen their capacity to gradually improve their livelihoods At Antioch I was already involved in courses discussions and learning associated with environmental issues in Africa I met faculty members and students who had already worked for environmental and food security programs in Africa They had a wide and in depth understanding of the challenges such as desertification poor environmental management and soil erosion Tahirou says These were fully integrated in the program Most students and teachers had a vision for a better world for peace and for a productive partnership between African countries and the U S

Nagasaki Life After Nuclear War A ward winning author and MFA alumna Susan Southard 06 remembers feeling absolutely riveted the first time she heard survivor Sumiteru Taniguchi describe the atomic bombing of Nagasaki Japan and its devastating aftermath At a 1986 speech Taniguchi gave in Washington D C Southard listened intently the dashing man then in his mid 50s described his experiences on the morning of August 9 1945 Photo Pathway through the ruins near the hypocenter on August 10 1945 between 1 and One moment he was a 16 year2 p m To the left Yamada Eiji is sketching the old boy delivering mail in the scene before him At center the opening to an mountains on his bicycle and air raid shelter is visible and in the distance are Mitsubishi factory smokestacks On the hill to the the next he was sprawled far right stand the ruins of Chinzei Middle School facedown on the roadway with Photograph by Yamahata Y suke Courtesy his back literally blown away of Yamahata Sh go by the explosion s searing heat In that instant his life as a hibakusha atomic bomb affected person had begun His story was so profound says Southard For decades it was just survival after the bomb The doctors didn t expect him to live Southard who speaks fluent Japanese unexpectedly had an opportunity to work as an interpreter for Taniguchi during his trip which is when she says he really allowed me into his life She eventually traveled to Nagasaki to meet him and his family as well as many other survivors and felt a deep empathy for the stories they courageously and compassionately shared with her Southard says their compelling tales became the real seed that ultimately sprouted into her spending 12 years researching and writing Nagasaki Life After Nuclear War SPRING SUMMER 2018 23

Published in 2015 Nagasaki intertwines historical facts with the gripping first hand narrative accounts of Taniguchi and four other survivors who were all teenagers at the time of the bombing The book covers the flashpoint through the 70 years that have passed since that life altering day Widely recognized Nagasaki earned Southard the 2016 Lukas Book Prize as well as the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize alongside two Nobel Peace Prize winners While grateful for the recognition she s received Southard says as an author what was important to me was that the book was recognized for the survivors When she initially researched the concept of her book she became acutely aware and shocked by the fact that there were no books written in English about the enduring effects of the atomic bombings in Japan That s when she decided she had to get this story out to the world and to get it right of research Southard says This book would not exist without her and her participation Southard though already an accomplished writer also decided that she needed to further hone her writing skills She enrolled in Antioch University s MFA program in 2004 to gain further tools to properly tell the journalistic million piece crossword puzzle that her project had become Courtesy of Susan Southard She traveled to Japan in 2003 to begin interviewing survivors and researching local history the first of five trips and countless hours spent interviewing survivors experts and historians walking the grounds and sifting through huge amounts of archived official documents photos and survivor testimonials The MFA developed my skills as a nonfiction writer in so many ways she says I was a different person when I came out than when I went in From that first trip until the book was published in 2015 she let one question serve as her guiding light What was it like for survivors who are in the later stages of their lives to consider nuclear war as the pivotal event that split their lives in two She really gets into their experiences in a way I haven t seen other people do before LaVoie says She just wants to help people get their voice to other people She listens to them and tries to get the story right While her intentions were clear Southard soon realized the enormity of the project she had undertaken and hired a project historian Robin LaVoie Robin was absolutely brilliant in helping me identify sources and also helping me to organize the thousands of pages LaVoie says Southard s book is so powerful because she relies on her profound empathy to write the stories of the survivors Ken Blackburn a longtime former student who also reviewed drafts of Nagasaki points out Southard s passion for helping people share their unique stories especially the ones that have a societal impact That s really her life s work he explains The purpose of the stories is not just to tell stories but to change people s lives She is really trying to have an impact on the world through these stories And Southard continues to do just that Twice she has shared her research and insights from the book before the United Nations including being invited to participate in a conference on nuclear disarmament held in November 2017 in Hiroshima Japan It s such an honor and a privilege to use my knowledge to use the suffering and the humanity of survivors as I speak to the U N Southard says It s been amazing by Shannon Wingard Carol Krumbach 24 Susan Southard left assisted by researcher Robin LaVoie interviews atomic bombing survivor Yoshida Katsuji 2009 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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Daniel Jos Older 13 is the New York Photo John Midgley Times bestselling author of Last Shot Star Wars A Han and Lando Novel the young adult series The Shadowshaper Cypher the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series and the middle grade historical fantasy Dactyl Hill Squad He won the International Latino Book Award in 2016 Shadowshaper was named one of Esquire s 80 Books Every Person Should Read You were a paramedic in New York City a bike messenger in San Francisco a teacher a waiter and more How have these jobs shaped who you are This brings up the argument or dispute about how much we read and how much we live as writers I think there s one idea that we should always be reading when we re not writing I m a huge advocate of living not at the expense of reading but I just don t think our education emphasizes enough the power of experiencing things Being a bike messenger a paramedic and a community organizer all made me a better writer being able to see the city from so many different sides class race etc You have to understand race gender and power in order to negotiate the world and to maneuver the world of publishing because it s so messed up on so many levels When you went back to get a low residency MFA at Antioch what were some of the things you learned One of the main things I learned is that I can do it I was working full time like most people in the program and I was editing an anthology while I was there too It was one of those situations where you have to really want it and I really did That taught me that I could pull that off I had never done that amount of work before Daniel Jos Older by Victoria Chang Interview 26 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE And of course I had great teachers Tananarive Due changed my life Antioch s program really jumped out to me because of the really cool political slant community involvement and Tananarive was the clincher because I loved her work so much She was really giving with her wisdom was so sharp with her analysis and so brilliant with her critiques and comments as well as her advice about publishing and the larger world As a cool side note the book that I worked on while I was at Antioch just got sold last week It s called The Book of Lost Saints That s so exciting When is it coming out It comes out next year It s a departure for me because it s a straight contemporary novel It s fantastical to some extent because it s narrated by a spirit but it s very much about life

People think it s so easy to get published but we all know how untrue that is It s a hustle And it s still a hustle I try and tell students this and let people know that we have this idea that at a certain level you can do whatever you want but I get rejections plenty of times still Shadowshaper was rejected 40 times by agents and that was before We Need Diverse Books and before the publishing industry realized characters of color can in fact sell I want to talk about We Need Diverse Books in a second But I want to know more about your family background where are your parents from what they are like was storytelling a part of your childhood I come from a Cuban and a Jewish family My mom is Cuban and my dad is Jewish and from Baltimore My mom immigrated to this country when she was 16 I grew up surrounded by books and storytelling on both sides My family loves movies music and just appreciates the arts all around That s the best gift for a kid My sister is a writer too she has a sci fi trilogy out too Her name is Malka Older She s an amazing writer Your mom and dad are from different places and are from different cultures did that shape your view of the world A lot of these questions I dealt with in Half Resurrection Blues and the whole series A Bone Street Rumba and this is about a character named Carlos who is half dead and half alive That was definitely a not too subtle way of looking into being of multiple cultures moving through the world and being accepted and rejected by certain people And him sort of dealing with the question of being mixed and of being of two worlds Most of his friends are ghosts and then he has living friends and he s always trying to negotiate that harmony and dis harmony As a poet I grew up in a world where people of color POC haven t really had a strong history of publishing and if there were POC it might be one But in the last bunch of years things have changed The children s field seems to have progressed a little more slowly in that We Need Diverse Books initially became simply having white writers paint in or write characters of color What are your thoughts and experiences with the publishing field across your writing life There are two pieces I ve written that I want to point you to One is called Diversity is Not Enough Race Power Publishing and another is 12 Fundamentals of Writing The Other And The Self and both were on BuzzFeed The movement was started by women of color writers and they ve always been clear that stories need to come from the community that they re about and you re very right that publishing has tiptoed around that idea and tried to fill a quota White writers writing characters of color is a very real thing I think ultimately it s never been about you can t write that character but it s about the fact that we demand that you do it right And now that we have a voice well these demands have always been there but there s social media now and it s a platform where people now have a voice of power and that s incredible That s really changed the world and made it very uncomfortable What you see is backlash and other things and people saying this is a lynch mob and a witch hunt the same response you see to the MeToo movement when people are speaking truth to power I think it s an exciting time to be a writer and it s amazing that publishing is accountable to people besides funders and people with money We re living it now I was at Barnes Noble today and the table display about what teens are reading was almost entirely writers of color queer romances fantasy books about police brutality That s what we fought for It doesn t mean we are done or that it s over clearly white supremacy never sleeps and neither does patriarchy We ve made this amazing surge forward and there s so much more to go but I for one am enjoying this process and this moment for the most part It s complicated for sure but now we have a voice and we re able to talk and have difficult conversations publicly Mostly we have to listen to each other There are certainly white writers who are writing books with characters of color that are beloved and it s because they take the time to listen and to get it right They re not just creating throwaway characters or painting a white face brown And sometimes too now people sometimes say to me as a POC poet that I get published or things are happening because I m a POC And now more books are by POC and awards are going to POC and that we ve swung too far but I always say it s because there s such a backlog of talent When you force writers into a siege where there s only one spot for us to fill we can t afford the luxury of being mediocre So we re going to write bomb ass books over and over and that s why there s the beginning of equality You re seeing these lists and awards are mostly people of color because we write bomb ass books because we had to in order to get published at all You are working on so many neat projects right now Last Shot Star Wars A Han and Lando Novel This one is on the New York Times Best Seller list and it s your second time on the list with Shadowshaper Photo Britt any Nicole being the first time Williams Tell me about the Star Wars project and how that got started This started from a short story that was in an anthology called From a Certain Point of View that was published last year where writers were asked to write short stories that reimagined Star Wars through the eyes of a supporting character They followed up asking me to write a whole novel which was a dream come true because I ve always been a Star Wars fan Did it require you writing in a different style The challenge was to play in someone else s world but to maintain my own voice and also to capture the voices of Han and Lando You don t want to do the same thing over and over but you don t want to make them feel completely not of that place I grew up on Star Wars so it wasn t much of a stretch because that s one of the ways I learned how to tell stories 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Photo John Midgley You re also working on Dactyl Hill Squad which is a middle grade series What s your writing process like Do you work on lots of projects at once What s your day look like Right now I m working on Dactyl Hill Squad and it s at least a trilogy and it s about kids of color in 1863 in New York City during the Civil War but it s a world where dinosaurs walk alongside us It was really fun that first book is the most fun I ve ever had writing I became a huge Civil War nerd There s so much about New York City at that time that I didn t know about I just finished the sequel and I m in the middle of edits on that Basically I wake up have breakfast and start writing That s the flow right now I try to have 1 000 words a day before lunch and maybe the same after Do you plot out a narrative Oh I hate that It makes it much more enjoyable for me to find out what s going to happen How did dinosaurs come about Did you write into it or did you have that idea first I wrote a comic book script that took place in old time New York with science elements and at one point there are dinosaurs and that small detail captured my imagination And then someone said that I should do a middle grade fantasy and I had everything I needed to start Once I get invested in a project it s really exciting Your protagonists are all POC right Yes Except for Han Solo 38 is kind of getting to that reflective age you re not the new kid on the block anymore but you re not very old either What advice would you give to younger writers or the younger version of yourself Stick to your guns and have a story you want to tell Sometimes we cut off stories on the presumption that it won t stay intact through the gauntlet of the publishing industry And that s not 28 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE as much of the case as we assume This is not to say the industry isn t messed up I didn t expect to be able to publish Shadowshaper with all its critiques of white supremacy gentrification and cultural appropriation I thought at some point they would try to make me cut it or they wouldn t publish it And that didn t happen I m not saying I would have changed anything That s the book I edited more intensely and thoroughly than any book I ve ever written because I was literally learning how to write in the novel form with that book But none of the changes struck at the heart of what I was trying to do which was to tell this great adventure story that also dealt with the reality of being people of color in America s white supremacy and patriarchal world If I had thought there was no way this would have been published and had written a half ass version of this it never would have been the book that it is So much of being a writer is determining which hills to plant flags on and to fight for That s not something you get a Master Class in anywhere Take time to determine what success means to you so that before you get there you recognize it Also the idea of finding someone good to work with and sticking with them Ultimately it s about building community with other writers making sure you have people who will have your back but will also keep you accountable You had said once that reading the works of authors such as of Octavia Butler gave you permission to be found in books too or gave you permission to write Do you view yourself as a role model and what kind of feedback do you get from your readers It s been one of the best things about being a writer being inspired and inspiring other people It was so nice to be inspired by books by Tananarive Due Jacqueline Woodson and others and then realizing Shadowshaper really changed the game for younger writers who are coming up today who tell me that Shadowshaper could be that light for someone in the same way other books were lights for me How do you give back to the community or want to I stopped teaching this year professionally because I needed the time to write It allowed me to write more but it also allowed me to teach in more intentional ways I actually love teaching but I don t love it when I have to rely on it I just love relying on writing because it s what I m meant to do on this planet I ve been working with kids more I talk to kids a lot about valuing your own work and your voices matter and to stay true to them And I like telling them what the publishing world is really like I don t think writers should be walking around with an inferiority complex What s next for you or what do you want to do when you grow up Moving forward I want to start working on scripts Two of my series have been optioned Bone Street Rumba and Shadowshapers so that s very exciting

BY GEOFFR EY H I MES 72 1970 photo of Morris Keeton left academic vice president of Antioch Columbia in front of Oakland Manor with staff members Mike Metty center and Peter Gerber Used with permission from The Baltimore Sun Visionaries MIKE METTY SPRING SUMMER 2018 29

M ike Metty 64 had just finished up his doctorate in higher education at Syracuse University in the spring of 1969 when he got an offer he couldn t refuse Morris Keeton the vice president of Antioch College in Ohio was on the phone asking if Metty would like to help set up a new college campus in a new town called Columbia Maryland Well yes he would Here was a dream opportunity A chance to test every theory he d ever had about improving American higher ed In the early 1960s the real estate developer Jim Rouse began quietly buying up parcels of land in Maryland s Howard County a mostly rural area strategically located between Baltimore and Washington Once he had assembled a critical mass of properties Rouse announced that he was going to create a planned city he called Columbia Among his many plans for the new town was an experimental school and so he reached out to Ohio s Antioch College because says Metty he admired the liberal work study perspective they brought to higher ed Keeton was enthusiastic and so was Jim Dixon 39 Antioch s president but they needed someone familiar with both the Antioch model and with the cutting edge ideas in higher ed someone without any other current commitments That was the recently graduated Metty As an undergrad he d been Keeton s student at Yellow Springs and as a grad student he d been Keeton s research assistant when the latter was a visiting professor at Syracuse intention to replicate the Yellow Springs campus it was always a way to engage different communities with a different kind of education I had a lot of ideas about how colleges might better serve their communities Some of those ideas were rooted in the Yellow Springs model work as a part of learning smaller community smaller classes a community that governed itself faculty that had expertise in their arena but also strongly interested in teaching as well as research But I wanted to go beyond that I thought that the curriculum had to be designed by the student The student I was most interested in was fully capable of designing their study as long as they had support of the faculty I felt it was a principle worth testing Metty arrived in Maryland as a tall rail thin 27 year old with a hint of whiskers on his chin He was confronted by a planned city that was still more plan than city Columbia had some man made lakes a summer home for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra a Frank Gehrydesigned Rouse Company Building and a few scattered housing clusters and village centers But most of the town was still woods and muddy fields where the planned mall office buildings and housing were meant to go Metty Keeton fellow Syracuse transplant Steve Plumer and Yellow Springs refugee Judson Jerome set up offices in the Columbia Manor a pre Rouse mansion on a hill to hire faculty and staff and to recruit students The original plan was to spend a year planning the process Metty recalls but as we chewed on it we decided Let s involve students from day one Let s invite 10 15 students for whom creating a new educational institution would be an exciting project Let s get them involved from the beginning so they re a part of building it from the ground up The consensus was not to have everything ready for them but to have them be part of the development We had a place at the Manor brought on a couple of faculty members quickly Some Rouse Company planners got I believed that if a student had significant control over their own future Metty explains it would increase their investment and would lead to independent human beings It was an interesting challenge for Yellow Springs Metty says today from his home on Florida s Gulf Coast How do you look at other locations as a way to experiment on new ways to deliver an educational opportunity It was never the 30 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE involved and Morris was in and out More than 50 students arrived that fall and this writer was part of a second wave in February adding up to nearly 100 in all We showed up at the old stone manor house filled with ramshackle furniture and were expected to sink or swim We were encouraged to find our own housing and transportation to design our own independent studies and to find a role in defining and governing the fledgling institution We were charged at every turn with taking charge of our educations and lives I believed that if a student had significant control over their own future Metty explains it would increase their investment and would lead to independent human beings I felt if education was really to be lifelong learning as everyone said it couldn t be just talked about it had to be done right from the start so students could learn how to do it There was too much narrowing of scope in students intellectual lives At most schools you had to take three courses from column A five from column B and six from column C You felt you had some choice but the choices were prescribed Yellow Springs had been pushing the envelope but I felt we had to push much further If you re going to be an independent human being you have to make decisions and live with the consequences without that everything else was fake It was an exciting first year but Metty Keeton Plumer and new hire Al Engelman had another item on their agenda The suburban feel of the Columbia center had attracted a mostly young and white student body not so different from Yellow Springs and the new Washington center had attracted a mostly older AfricanAmerican student body Metty and his colleagues wanted to combine the two demographics in a third center in Baltimore which opened in the fall of 1970 We had to see if such an institution could work in an urban environment if it took on a different kind of student Metty explains The staff had recruited a few dozen African American paraprofessionals who were working in college level jobs without the credential that could give them the pay they deserved These were joined by the Columbia students and newcomers just like them

A mix of students like that young students who are bright as hell but haven t had much experience and people who are battle tested that can be a rich environment Metty still argues When I was in Yellow Springs Coretta Scott King 51 would come through every few years to talk to students and some of us would go off and work with Dr King on various projects That got me thinking How can we bring together students from different races different economic backgrounds in a pressure cooker environment to see how they work together Sometimes it worked quite well and sometimes the shit hit the fan But as a whole I felt the venture in building a community the venture in bumping heads was productive Neither group would have gotten that experience any other way The African American students included Paul Coates 79 founder of Black Classic Press and the father of Ta Nehisi Coates Hattie Harrison 79 future Maryland state delegate Ruby Glover 78 jazz singer and promoter and Charlie Simmons 70 founder of SojournerDouglass College The European American students included John Doe 75 co founder of the rock band X Franz Lidz 73 Sports Illustrated staff writer Deirdre O Connell 76 stage film actress e g Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Billy Russell 77 79 co founder of the Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center Antioch Maryland was easy to get into but hard to get out of If you found this unusual education attractive you could probably come To graduate though you had to survive and master real world jobs you had to define in your own words what you learned in or out of a classroom and you had to force the institution to give you what you wanted A lot of people wasted a lot of time and money at Antioch but those who graduated came away with one of the most practical educations around I had been in several colleges before I came to Antioch explains Maggie Rice 72 who went on to manage a Chicago theater and to launch her own financialadvisor business in Denver but this was the first one that said Go out and try things and if you get into trouble we ll come along and bail you out They gave me the confidence that I could actually do things and that made all the difference in the world Back in the 60s there was this tremendous energy to explore and challenge things recalls Paul Bartlett 74 who now owns his own foodconsulting company in Baltimore and there was nowhere to turn that energy except to getting in trouble Antioch was the one place that channeled that energy into something constructive Every other college I d been to wanted you to follow their agenda Antioch had an open agenda Other colleges I had been to kept you insulated from the real world adds Ed Fegreus 72 who now has his own law practice in Boston but Antioch forced you to come to terms with the way the world really worked When I graduated I hadn t read everything that people from other colleges had read but I knew how things got done in the real world and I knew how to get my hands on the information I had missed out on I had no problem at Harvard With their training in irreverence and project creation it s not surprising that many Antioch Maryland graduates have worked for themselves as freelance writers freelance radio producers stage crew contractors video producers sheep farmers house builders tap dancers and so on Even those who worked for large institutions the U S Departments of Energy and Defense the Honeywell Corporation Towson State University the Chicago City Government National Public Radio carved out their own niches within the bureaucracy Those students who weren t disciplined enough and confident enough to handle a self directed education often fell to the wayside and suffered as a result The Used with permission from The Baltimore Sun 1973 photo of Charles W Simmons 70 and student volunteer employee Betty Gladney 74 at Antioch s HomesteadMontebello Center in East Baltimore cofounded by Simmons after he graduated from Antioch Baltimore Charles says In the early days we had to rely on an all volunteer faculty and staff In 1980 the Center spun off from Antioch to become Sojourner Douglass College with Simmons as President balancing act between freedom and safety is a tricky one and Antioch Maryland didn t always find the right balance Personally I could not have asked for a better environment for myself says Ric Moore 72 a self described subversive bureaucrat in the federal government but I know it got others side tracked If you didn t have the necessary self motivation gumption self discipline creativity and an unorthodox attitude you could get left SPRING SUMMER 2018 31

in the lurch But then every place is that way I don t think any one model works for everyone There need to be more options but with better ways of finding your way through the labyrinth I have no idea how I figured out what would work for me except that the penalties for dropping out back then seemed much less drastic and final than they do these days Used with permission from The Baltimore Sun Did it fuck up sometimes Absolutely Metty admits But as I visit with students since then I found that the experience worked for them and helped them develop into competent individuals in charge of their own lives I also recognize that some people didn t have a good experience and left disappeared or fell through the cracks I think the opportunity to be in control of your education is important but we have to have better processes in place and be willing to intervene when students are failing But how to do that without becoming dominating is a difficult line to walk We wrestle with this whole issue of paternalism in education and we don t do a good job with it The Baltimore Columbia and Washington centers began with support from the Yellow Springs administration 32 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE but opposition soon emerged among the Ohio faculty and trustees The Maryland administration was often overly optimistic about how many students were coming and when they didn t arrive that created budget deficits Philosophical and financial conflicts widened a gap that no one knew how to bridge Our relations with Yellow Springs deteriorated says Metty of the mid 70s and I suspect Undergraduate programs by contrast are mostly dealing with the personal emotional and educational development of young folks who aren t as experienced or goal directed So it s a broader array of things that have to be delivered and sustained So yes graduate programs are easier to run than undergraduate programs After the centers closed Metty moved to Alaska where he spent 15 years developing new educational programs for indigenous Alaskans He eventually moved on to administer programs in continuing and technical education Antioch Columbia students Martin Keck in Nevada California 72 left and Bob Dine shared an 18th century farmhouse outside Columbia and Michigan Now 76 with seven other people each paying he s retired to Tarpon 125 a month rent Dine who left a Springs Florida where previous college after refusing to take he volunteers for ROTC was studying psychology Keck an ex Marine who had been kicked out various community of Vanderbilt for cutting classes earned organizations But a BA in environmental design and later he looks back on his became an attorney 14 years at Antioch Maryland with unapologetic pride both sides contributed Much of my time post Antioch has to it Yellow Springs been spent in public institutions Metty was going through summarizes which have great value in some severe financial the breadth of who they can serve and management issues what they can provide But there are many of its own The more constraints on what they can do faculty were becoming and sometimes those boundaries are too more conservative restrictive for students what they want and tolerance for risk what they need Most institutions are there to was diminishing We maintain the status quo and not enough are weren t wise enough challenging it to understand that and figure out what to do It s harder and harder to find a college about it Yellow Springs was imploding and that has a divergent strategy like we had at the outlying places probably added to that Antioch in Maryland not impossible but I had a foot in both camps having much harder Those are difficult institutions graduated from Yellow Springs while being a to manage especially as dollars become strong proponent of centers doing different more difficult to come by and as the things around the country I did my best to measures of success become narrower The maintain my relationships in Yellow Springs cost of that is a lot of people get left behind but I don t know if I succeeded The system We gain more from divergent thinking than wasn t designed well to manage all these convergent thinking more from divergent different enterprises institutions than convergent institutions The Baltimore Columbia and Washington centers were forced to close down in 1983 The network campuses that Geoffrey Himes received his BA survived were almost all graduate programs degree from Antioch College in 1972 and Metty sees that as a crucial distinction as part of the school s first ever Graduate programs for the most part graduation ceremony in Baltimore It are very outcome driven he points out was held in a Teamster s Union hall and that establishes a much clearer goal set

Used with permission from The Baltimore Sun William E Suaro The New York Times Redux The Antioch bubble was an inflatable vinyl structure created to house the entire Columbia campus Students even helped design the facility as part of their environmental design curriculum Plans for the 30 000 square foot campus including classrooms offices and indoor gardens were approved in May 1972 and the bubble was inflated in November of that year by students and faculty A June 1973 New York Times story Plastic Bubble New Dimension in U S Education praised the structure as gaining popularity as a deliberately impermanent and highly flexible means of providing shelter for higher education But by October 1973 there were major bubble troubles including heating and cooling problems weather issues and vandalism Around Thanksgiving 1973 a strong wind collapsed the bubble and thieves stole everything from toilets to control panels The bubble was put up for sale at a loss and that was the end of the country s first inflatable campus SPRING SUMMER 2018 33

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T his November 14 1961 Baltimore Sun photo titled JUST LIKE A WOMAN was captioned These three Philadelphia girls wanted to spruce up their living quarters so they began painting the Anne Arundel county jail where they are being held as sit in anti segregation demonstrators The women from left Diana King Joyce Barrett and Antioch College student Larsine Sirizzotti were among ten people arrested after staging a sit in at a segregated restaurant in Annapolis near the Governor s mansion Their case was defended by famed civil rights advocate and Antioch College alumnus A Leon Higginbotham Jr 49 Then the President of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP Higginbotham became one of the most prominent and influential African American judges in the country Used with permission from The Baltimore Sun SPRING SUMMER 2018 35

The Road to Activism SEVEN STRONG WOMEN We gathered a group of female alumni from the 1960s and 70s for a roundtable discussion of their Antioch experiences including their perceptions of women s rights issues at the time and today MEE T T HE PARTIC IPA N TS Janet Dewart Bell Antioch Columbia BA 73 PhD Leadership Change 15 is a consultant and author who earned a Peabody Award for her work with National Public Radio NPR She served as Director of Communications for both PolicyLink and the National Urban League Her PhD dissertation served as the basis of her new book Lighting the Fires of Freedom African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement 36 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE What do you remember of the campus or center you attended JANET I started taking classes at Antioch in 1968 or 69 I was lucky enough to be in Washington DC working in television and someone suggested I look at going to Antioch My degree is from Antioch Columbia but I also attended classes in Washington DC and Baltimore because they had video programs believe it or not So you had Washington DC which was primarily black Columbia Maryland which was primarily white and Baltimore which was mixed We were focused on video and photography specific technical aspects of communication LIVVY Putney which was my last semester at Antioch was an extraordinary setting to take classes We were out in the country in this big old farmhouse on a hillside The living room was the main classroom Some of the bedrooms were made into offices others were used for student housing It was so free wheeling students would get up whenever they wanted and go to the kitchen or step outside SARAH I had not even visited Yellow Springs before I enrolled But it was a really good match for me The co op program turned out to be really valuable There s nothing like graduating from college with a resume of experiences even if they are only three to four months long I think that certainly helped me get along with my future LIVVY I graduated from Middlebury in June a very good co ed fouryear college in Vermont I was very involved with athletics and there were 16 pages of boys athletics in our yearbook and one of women I arrived in Yellow Springs later in June and there was a totally different climate We had guys in the dorm which was just not even heard of And you could get a sense of being on par with men and meeting guys as friends and not as returning colleagues and dating and all that stuff Jane Veeder Antioch College 67 is a pioneer in computer graphics and Professor Emerita of the School of Design at San Francisco State University SFSU She started working with digital computers in 1978 and was a member of the pioneering Chicago computer graphics community in the early 1980s producing internationally exhibited animated and interactive computer artworks and designing user interfaces for graphics software development LaDoris Hazzard Cordell Antioch College BA 71 is a retired judge of the Superior Court of California and has long been an advocate for improving transparency into charges of police misconduct As Assistant Dean of the Stanford Law School she helped develop a program to increase minority recruitment taking Stanford from last to first within a year in enrollment of African American and Hispanic students at major law schools

Would you say you were an activist or were aware of feminist activism during your Antioch years JANET I was the head of my NAACP chapter when I was 12 years old in 1958 and I saw women who were in leadership positions but I didn t perceive at the time that they were in leadership positions About the time I was finishing my degree at Antioch I started working for the National Committee on Household Employment and I coauthored an article with my godmother who was a household worker That article was edited by no less than Gloria Steinem She is probably my biggest single influence in the women s movement TORY I was more involved with anti war and racial justice concerns than with women s issues when I was at Putney In the first conversation I had with Norm Wilson he asked me what I wanted to do there In 16 years of very formal education no one had ever asked me that I had no idea But we soon threw ourselves into studying alternative approaches to education Inspired by A S Neill s Summerhill where students designed their own curriculum we started a school for homeless teens called not surprisingly Winterhill The faculty generously moved out of the building the teens moved in and the experiment began Boy did we learn a lot PAT As far as the 70s were concerned we were black and we were proud We were proudly wearing or Afros and dashikis We listened to James Brown It really transitioned us as a people This was our time we were coming out of the shadows We were being seen we were being heard and this was something that was for the betterment of our African American communities I was really influenced by Betty Friedan I read her book and I started a club with other like minded ladies We were very interested in working with housewives women who felt that their only purpose was to serve their husbands We worked to get them involved in voting and in speaking their minds letting them know that they had an opinion and it should be valued JANE When I was at Antioch in the 60s the topic of women hadn t really come up yet But there was a demonstration one day which was tear gassed on the main drag of Yellow Springs People were protesting a barbershop because the barbers had said that they would not cut African American people s hair because they didn t know how to do it Oakland in the 1970s was very different there was a big feminist fair They were showing women s art They were setting up women s artists consciousness raising groups and other types of focus groups Women were getting free gynecological exams All these women were there and we felt like we could kind of see each other for the first time We felt visible It was a civic event about women LADORIS During my Antioch time I was far more engaged in the fight for racial justice than for women s rights primarily because it was my feeling that the women s movement was not particularly interested in including women of color It was my perception at the time the women s movement primarily benefitted white women SARAH I actually lived in the Antioch College fire department There were lots of female firefighters and the chief was a female These were strong women You d feel it when you went out on runs because we worked with the Yellow Springs Fire Department and they were always pushing us out of the way and saying I don t want to listen to you I ll listen to my chief and that kind of thing But within the college it was very open LIVVY One of my defining moments at Antioch was teaching at Randall Junior High School right near the Capitol in Washington DC It was an all black school and there were probably 1 100 black students and 10 whites in the building The experience of seeing personality and not color or race was something radically different for me Experiences like being at an all black school when Martin Luther King was assassinated were absolutely the key to my whole life Because of that year and such incredible struggles in the classroom I had such incredible growth in everything I was doing Olivia Livvy Tarleton Antioch Putney MAT Social Studies 69 is a retired teacher and academic support specialist who worked in Washington DC and Massachusetts She and her husband Chuck now run Sunset View Farm in Winchendon Mass Sarah Gorham Skinner Antioch College BA 76 is an award winning poet and essayist and the co founder of Sarabande Books She received a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in 2013 Sarah is known for her memoir Alpine Apprentice about her experiences as a rebellious teen sent to an international boot camp style boarding school in Switzerland Patricia Pat Augustus Gilbert Antioch Philadelphia BA 77 MA 79 is an independent consultant and motivational speaker and the founder of MOYA Making Over Your Attitude from the Inside Out a self improvement empowerment plan for women Victoria Tory Mudd Antioch Putney MAT 71 is an Oscar winning documentary filmmaker and anthropologist She won the 1985 Documentary Feature Oscar for her first film Broken Rainbow about the wrongs being done by our government to the Navajos and co wrote and co produced another acclaimed documentary 2002 s Tibet Cry of the Snow Lion She and longtime collaborator Maria Florio founded EARTHWORKS FILMS INC in 1980 SPRING SUMMER 2018 37

You know during the Vietnam War I had an amazing experience in Dayton when I was at Yellow Springs where we went into neighborhoods that I didn t realize were part of the military there s a big base there and we went door to door passing out handbills Just getting the reaction of people you know and how they looked at Yellow Springs They were completely conservative and Antioch was completely liberal It was really a fascinating time Which Antioch instructors and staff were most influential to you JANET For me Margot Kernan who had been with Antioch s London program and was Associate Professor of Urban Media at Antioch s Baltimore center from 1970 75 Margot was a fabulous photographer and videographer She really taught me a lot about the visual art and is probably why I started going to the Baltimore campus LIVVY I was grateful for the support of Norman Wilson who served as director of the Antioch Putney Center from 1968 to 72 and was committed to increasing the diversity of Antioch s student body SARAH I encountered superb teaching in the English department Ira Sadoff Dianne Sadoff and Eric Horsting were my mentors and inspiration And I worked in a bunch of different places on my co ops I went to the Folger Shakespeare Library and was an assistant I was at the Columbia University nursery school and I took a workshop at the New School with Daniel Halpern which is a big deal I was a counselor at a summer camp where we lived in teepees It just really expanded my horizons in a way that probably a normal school a fairly traditional school would not have But there were things about Antioch that annoyed me One was the constant interruption of protests There was a strike in the cafeteria so there was garbage everywhere At one point you were called a scab if you went to any classes TORY Jerry Gamble one of our teachers in Putney was the founder of Akwesasne Notes the first Native American newspaper He was a pioneer and a fine teacher and every Wednesday night he would take us down to Francis Flaherty s barn to hear stories of her husband Robert s filmmaking adventures to see her photographs to absorb her elegance and intellect In all those remarkable evenings it never dawned on me that a few years later I would become a documentary filmmaker and in my own small way follow in the large and deep Flaherty footsteps Hold the camera so that your worthy and interesting subject reaches the audience as directly as possible Get out of the way Be a conduit for the person whose consciousness you admire to reach the audience with as little filter or distortion as possible All my filmmaking efforts yet to come were guided by this principle much to the chagrin of some of my later collaborators who wanted structure and a script before rolling film But how could I do that I didn t know what this person was going to say or where their comments would lead me My approach guaranteed surprises and spontaneity and a huge pile of outtakes on the cutting room floor 38 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE How did Antioch prepare you for what you ve gone on to do in your life JANE Those first couple of years at Antioch did something very fundamental to me because I was looking for my career to be my avenue towards selfhood and independence Not only financial independence but in terms of content having an independent voice It gave me a taste for change and adventure that continued for the rest of my life We started our jobs and after two years I realized oh I can have a new idea I can go off into something I ve never done before I got into video which was totally new at that time in terms of being an accessible creative medium Soon after that in the late 70s I committed myself to computer graphics both interactive and animated I worked at a few startup companies taught at an art school in Oregon and then started a 28 year career teaching digital media design at San Francisco State That sense of independence I got at Antioch just made the difference for my whole life PAT What I ultimately got from it was to really follow your passion and my passion has been helping people to live their best lives now I went on to become a guidance counselor a clinical therapist a high school administrator and the owner of a business that worked with nonprofits to be successful in helping the underserved About ten years ago I created a women s empowerment program MOYA Making Over Your Attitude from the Inside Out where I meet women right where they are and help them to where they want to go LIVVY When I left Antioch I continued on in teaching For 20 years I worked as an academic support specialist at a small Catholic college I earned another master s in psychological counseling and worked with students who had disabilities or were international students or adult learners My Antioch experiences gave me the skills to encourage them with their college careers And I encouraged my students to speak out I had been very silent when I went to my undergraduate college but I found my voice at Antioch I ve raised three daughters and I have six granddaughters and four of the six are playing Division One athletics I couldn t do that when I was in college LADORIS After graduating from Antioch in 1971 I went directly to law school at Stanford My Antioch experience did not prepare me for what I encountered at Stanford Law school is highly competitive There is a lot of pressure in the classroom and grades define our status The opposite was the case at Antioch our classes were laid back there was no raising of hands to answer a question and grades were totally unimportant I had to completely re group and step up my game JANET Although we didn t have co op programs during my undergrad years you did get credit for your life experience That really helped me see the value of lived experience and think about how you analyze and you take from that lessons that can be imparted to other people And I think my early experience helped prepare me for my later Antioch experience in 2015 I went back into the PhD program in Leadership and Change SARAH I ve published four books of poetry and two books of lyric essays I founded Sarabande Books an independent nonprofit literary press celebrating its 25th anniversary soon My business is staffed completely by women and well more than half of the titles we publish are by women And our outreach programs cater largely to women including youth detainees the homeless and women in recovery

With the MeToo and TimesUp movements bringing feminist issues once again to the forefront of public conversation would you like to offer any thoughts to women in college today TORY Don t make the mistake we made once abortion and contraception were legal we thought we had succeeded Be vigilant about protecting the rights we have JANE Today s students are signing up for lifelong learning And to make a success of that they need to take pleasure in process in collaboration in challenge and in evolution Such a career will be challenging It will be exhausting much of the time but it will not be boring There s still a lot of sexist crap going on in academia of course but if you focus if you collaborate well if you keep speaking up you wear em down You can make real contributions PAT You have the ability to do anything you set your mind to Don t let challenges define who and what you are about You can have your dream job you can really be out there helping others But just keep doing what you re doing and know yourself know your capacity know your strengths and let your strengths work for you SARAH I would say to gain strength and courage from your fellow feminists and be brave I think it was a very brave thing to start a press especially one with the publisher s books that hardly ever sell I think that that s critical you do take some risks I just opened up the New York Times and it had that typical list telling us the salaries of various CEOs There must have been 200 300 names on there and there were two women That s outrageous Now I mean really At the same time one of the most wonderful things I ve seen is this upsurge of activism which I am now taking part in and awareness of women s issues There was significant change while I was a college student and I believe there will be again because of these incredible young women This may sound like advice from a senior citizen but I would suggest that college students take in as much of the big picture as possible Seek out mentors with decades of experience not just your peers JANET What I want women to keep in mind is that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance The struggle always continues and women must understand race and racism Sexism is second not that it s secondary but it s second Race and racism is used to perpetuate fear and uncertainty I want women to understand that intersectionality is critical Intersectionality between understanding the things we as women experience how race and racism have an impact on those experiences LIVVY I agree with all you said but I think there s still a lot of very subtle bias that s out there and students need to be very aware of it They need to develop their voice and speak out and not be silent LADORIS I am thrilled that so many women of all colors are finding the courage to speak truth to power That being said I am greatly dismayed by the unwillingness of women to listen to opposing viewpoints For example when men are accused of sexual assault or harassment it s important to remember that in our democracy they have the right to be heard and a right to due process The feminists among us who espouse this reminder are frequently attacked and shunned I find this sad Yes we are angry but flouting the basic tenets of our democratic process benefits no one So my advice to today s Antiochians is know your history understand the tragedy that befalls a society that does not tolerate dissenting views fight for what is right and above all be kind to one another TORY I have a vision of women healing the world by their presence Truly embrace and become who you are That s what the world needs now 5 4 2 Courtesy of AMPAS 1 3 Victoria Mudd far right and Maria Florio second from left at the 1985 Academy Awards where they won Best Documentary Feature for Broken Rainbow posing with one of the film s subjects Katherine Smith and presenter Louis Gossett Jr 2 Livvy Tarleton 3 Pat Augustus Gilbert 4 Jane Veeder 5 Sarah Gorham 1 SPRING SUMMER 2018 39

DISASTER SHAKTI BY KAREN HAMILTON 17 AND MALIA GAFFNEY 19 On January 12 2010 a magnitude 7 0 earthquake struck the impoverished nation of Haiti killing 220 000 people injuring more than 300 000 and initially displacing 1 5 million Volunteers from Antioch University New England s Disaster Shakti joined the international humanitarian response and traveled to Port au Prince to provide counseling services to individuals and families traumatized by the catastrophic quake and the horrific living conditions it spawned DISASTER SHAKTI is a volunteer team of Antioch doctoral clinical psychology students who use their education to reach out to disaster survivors throughout the world Their work began in 2005 soon after the tsunami disaster in Southeast and South Asia when clinical psychology professor Dr Gargi Roysircar and a team of students traveled to Tamil Nadu India Trained in multicultural counseling competencies the students affirmed the resilience of the survivors and empowered them to take care of their well being While in India Dr Roysircar held discussions with social workers and community counselors and reached consensus that the name Shakti which means empowerment in several Indian languages was an appropriate way to describe the wellness orientation of the work the team was doing 40 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE p Disaster Shakti made its first trip to Haiti in June 2010 to assist with the psychological aspects of recovery Roysircar has been to disaster sites all over the world from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to the aftermath of apartheid in South Africa and Botswana to post flood recovery in Tabasco Mexico But Haiti s despair caught even her off guard the crumbled buildings and rubble filled streets the hundreds of thousands of newly homeless living in unsanitary conditions in precarious makeshift camps The students worked with individual clients and ran group sessions for children and teens They were advised on matters of culture religion spirituality and politics of Haitian people The volunteers helped their translators learn how to listen for words and phrases that are triggers for mental health illnesses They also met Dr Gargi Roysircar in Port au Prince with local recovery organizations to learn about successful relief activities and to share their own disaster counseling work p Since that first trip to Haiti Disaster Shakti has made five additional trips Dr Alyssa Lanza 14 went to Haiti as part of the May 2012 expedition She spent long days at Blanchard Clinic a small building in a compound that offers medical support and resources to the community The therapeutic work took place outdoors under a tented table or in the yard in chairs Research groups worked primarily with children while individual therapy and psychoeducational health groups worked with adults Lanza chose to participate in 2012 s Haiti trip because as a psychology professional she wanted to learn how to effectively help people whose daily lives are challenged by short and long term disaster I have a greater understanding of how to work in disaster settings and it has given me a greater skill set when working with individuals with limited resources Lanza says A piece of my heart will always be in Haiti Roysircar echoed the sentiment I think my heart belongs to Haiti They are so artistic and the kids love to draw I just feel so much at home with them We are so careful of our behaviors but they are so open

Volunteer teams of doctoral clinical psychology students have made six trips to Haiti with Disaster Shakti The Antioch group stayed at an orphanage for children with special needs and much of their time off was spent informally interacting with Haitian children affected by chronic need The kids and women are suffering all the time says Roysircar They really have a great faith in God so that helps them cope Either they have a great faith in God or are angry with God but they both come out on Sunday I saw many incidences of trauma when I was an advocate of domestic sexual violence and human trafficking victims Then a service and research trip to Haiti confirmed my interest and set me on the path of curiosity about these issues Dr Bola Afolayan PsyD 15 said in a community partner profile on the Endowment for Health site During her 2012 trip she spent two weeks working with the earthquake victims particularly children still struggling with issues of trauma She encouraged them to express their feelings through art and collected data on trauma It changed my life Afolayan says I will take that with me for the rest of my life PsyD student Perrin Tellock volunteered with Disaster Shakti during the 2012 trip and again in 2013 When we were in Haiti in 2012 we were still seeing the after effects of the earthquake what they call the goudou goudou There were a lot of buildings reduced to rubble or pancaked and people were living in tents says Tellock During this trip most people had been relocated and much of the street rubble has been removed but we still saw a lot of people suffering from poverty and long term neglect The 2013 volunteers held classes and explained the effects of stress and how it can exacerbate diabetes cardiac problems and sickle cell disease They also taught muscle relaxation techniques useful to stressed out Haitians who often feel marginalized and helpless When needed suicide risk evaluations were completed The poverty is so overwhelming To see it for the first time you think it s hopeless Tellock adds But it s not a place where change can be measured in days or weeks If you think of it as year after year you do see that it is going forward Disaster Shakti joined Global Trauma Research GTR Inc in Croix des Bouquets near Port au Prince in December 2015 to educate teachers local helpers and ministers in trauma diagnosis and help They also organized a Christmas party for 350 school children which Roysircar says was a hoot Donations from the Antioch community helped buy Santa s suit and candy In addition to providing mental health services Roysircar conducts research on the Haitian patient population She explains We follow the principle of evidence based practice We collected data from our patients with sickle cell disease whom we counseled individually as well as educated on their disease through psychoeducation PsyD student Sarajane Rodgers is using this data on attention deficit sleep disorder and emotion dysregulation for her dissertation Roysircar shared a story from Disaster Shakti s 2016 trip Here s this young man about 24 years old He came to see me and said that he wanted to kill himself Of course I did immediate crisis intervention He described this rope I told him how he should keep this rope from himself He told me he felt so ashamed because he could not contribute economically because he did not have a job The young man returned for another session with his mother and father I asked him to tell his mother how he was thinking of taking his life Then his mother said to give her the rope We all stood up to say a prayer and the mother burned the rope We watched as the rope burned He comes to see me every time I am there He is fine The mother sells bananas and fruit He sells soda p In 2017 the Disaster Shakti team made their sixth trip to Haiti Dr Ashland Thompson PsyD 17 a fourth year PsyD student at the time was part of the 2017 team Thompson was previously a Peace Corp volunteer in Zambia and Kenya but had always wanted to go to Haiti When Thompson arrived at Antioch he became a research assistant for the Antioch Multicultural Center assisting Roysircar with community projects and research Thompson draws parallels between his experiences in Africa and Haiti explaining Haiti is very African feeling Thompson noted that while in Africa he was very dependent on the community he was serving and that the relationship was one of reciprocity rather than one sided service We shouldn t just learn about people we should learn from people too That s the important stance people need to take when they go over there to work You have to engage with the people It takes humility to learn from something They have a lot to teach says Thompson Although the disaster may have made some Haitians stronger many others were traumatized and most still must grapple with everyday life in one of the world s poorest countries It is easy to become despondent when much of the client s situation is out of the therapist s control says Tellock But though there is suffering there is beauty in sitting face to face with another person and bearing witness to their experience That s the real value of it SPRING SUMMER 2018 41

AU VOICES Faculty and program news from across the U S GLOVER S LEDGE PAVILION Langdon NH April 21 2018 TRIP TO CUBA Havana April 2018 A ribbon cutting ceremony and work party celebrated the new Pavilion at Glover s Ledge in Langdon NH 30 miles north of Antioch s New England campus The property was donated to the university in 2014 by a local resident who had attended a forest management course Its 74 acres of forest used for research and recreation has bedrock outcroppings seeps streams a twoacre pond and a hemlock cinnamon fern swamp with two vernal pools A dozen members of the Graduate School of Leadership and Change community including faculty students and alumni spent a week in Havana studying the island nation s healthcare system It was an extraordinary trip exploring a system based on an entirely different political economic and social foundation LOVE LOSS AND WHAT I WORE Santa Barbara May 6 2018 Antioch University Santa Barbara produced a special benefit performance of the hit play Love Loss and What I Wore by Delia and Nora Ephron The cast included from left California State Senator Hannah Beth Jackson Hattie Winston six time Emmy nominee Meredith Baxter Kathryne Dora Brown and Lily Gibson The event at the Lobero Theatre raised over 30 000 for student scholarships and the Women in Leadership certificate program 42 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY Seattle September 27 2017 The official ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Antioch University Seattle campus at 3rd and Battery in the Belltown neighborhood featured building tours the debut of the Leaf a Legacy donor wall and remarks by Seattle campus Provost Dr Benjamin Pryor right University Chancellor Bill Groves center and Steve Crandall left from the Board of Governors who remarked that Today more than ever we need value driven organizations like Antioch University that model compassion commitment and community involvement AN EVENING WITH JENIFER LEWIS Los Angeles May 29 2018 MFA student Lily Caraballo left and Jenifer Lewis during the book signing The Psychological Trauma Studies specialization in the MA in Clinical Psychology program and the Antioch University Los Angeles Library presented an evening with Jenifer Lewis author of The Mother of Black Hollywood A Memoir An actress comedian singer and activist Jenifer shared her journey of overcoming addiction and living with mental illness Jenifer got her start on Broadway as one of the original cast members of Dream Girls and currently stars on the hit show Black ish DR PATRICIA LINN Seattle March 24 2018 Pat Linn was awarded Professor Emeritus status at a special event that also celebrated her contributions to the birth and growth of the PsyD program at Antioch University Seattle Her Antioch career began in Yellow Springs in 1986 as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Antioch College She later served as J D Dawson Professor of Cooperative Education Professor of Psychology and Women s Studies and Associate Dean of Faculty She moved to Antioch University Seattle in 2004 and was a core faculty member until 2014 chairing the PsyD program until 2009 The new Pat Linn PsyD Research Scholarship honors her 30 years with Antioch

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES MILESTONES MFA program faculty member Victoria Chang received the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America in March 2018 Chang was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry in 2017 Antioch University Midwest was named to the 2018 Phi Theta Kappa Transfer Honor Roll which identifies the top four year colleges and universities creating dynamic pathways to support transfer students Pacific Coast Business Times honored Anna Kwong chair of the MBA program in Santa Barbara as one of the Top 50 Women in Business across the tri county region of Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties The Perpetual Food Drive on the Los Angeles campus reached a milestone at the end of fall quarter 2017 exceeding seven tons of beans rice and baby cereal collected since the drive launched in 2011 All food is donated to the Westside Food Bank in Santa Monica Seattle BA adjunct faculty member Barrett Martin won a Latin Grammy in Nov 2017 for Best Portuguese Language Rock or Alternative Album Dance Movement Therapy Program Director Dr Christina Devereaux received the 2017 American Dance Therapy Association President s Award along with Global WellBeing Director David Alan Harris MA in Nonprofit Management and MA in Urban Sustainability faculty member Jeanne Hartley received the 2017 Sharing the Wealth Award from the Organization Development Network OD Network Antioch University Seattle s PsyD program was awarded five years of accreditation from the American Psychological Association APA in Nov 2017 The program is now one of the only APAaccredited PsyD programs in clinical psychology in the Pacific Northwest The Master of Science in Environmental Studies program on the New England campus earned accreditation from the North American Association for Environmental Education NAAEE making it one of only nine environmental education programs in the U S accredited by NAAEE and the only accredited program in the Northeast The New England campus s Center for Behavioral Health Innovation has been retained by the NH Department of Health and Human Services to prepare a ten year plan for addressing the behavioral health needs of New Hampshire s citizens PUBLICATIONS S anta Barbara faculty member Dr Gary Delanoeye published his second book of overlapping short story fiction Letters from the Outs described as a poignant and sometimes humorous look at young adults attending high school in a correctional facility Dr Torin Finser faculty member in the Waldorf Teacher Education program on the New England campus has published Education for Nonviolence The Waldorf Way r Kirk Honda Couple and D Family Therapy faculty member in Seattle published Multirole Clinical Supervision Evidence Reflections and Best Practices Antioch has joined forces with three other higher education institutions to create the Ecovation Hub Education and Training Consortium dedicated to bringing broader green economy knowledge and opportunities to Massachusetts New Hampshire and Vermont The Washington State Professional Educator Standards Board awarded a grant of 560 000 over two years to Antioch University Seattle for the Alternative Route to Teacher Certification ARTC program Offered in partnership with the Kent School District ARTC enables paraprofessionals and other classified instructional staff to remain in their positions while earning their teacher certification endorsement and master s degree in one calendar year Environmental Studies faculty member Dr Rachel Thiet and her collaborators at Cape Cod National Seashore were awarded a 151 471 grant from the National Park Service for a project on assessing the benthic community in a partially restored lagoon to improve management decision making F ulbright Scholar and Graduate School of Leadership Change faculty member Dr Mitchell Kusy s newest book is Why I Don t Work Here Anymore A Leader s Guide to Offset the Financial and Emotional Costs of Toxic Employees ew England Professor Emeritus N Tom Wessels released his seventh nonfiction book Granite Fire and Fog The Natural and Cultural History of Acadia Professor Emeritus Dr Kate Davies has published her new book Intrinsic Hope Living Courageously In Troubled Times SPRING SUMMER 2018 43

ALUMNI News and Notes 1960s Halsted Welles 64 Antioch College BA collaborated with composer Georgia Shreve for a May 2018 Carnegie Hall performance in which his artwork a series of time lapse images of gardens he created as they undergo the vicissitudes of weather and city life accompanied Shreve s piano concerto performance of Four Seasons Halsted is the founder of Halsted Welles Associates a NYCbased design and build firm that specializes in creating lush outdoor living spaces on rooftops and urban terraces Ginita Wall 66 Antioch College BA published Tax Tips for Same Sex Couples on the TurboTax site Ginita is a certified public accountant and co founded the nonprofit organization Women s Institute for Financial Education WIFE org in 1988 It is the oldest nonprofit organization dedicated to financial independence for women and has over 55 000 members 1970s Jerome C Glenn 71 New England MA and his organization The Millennium Project a Washington DC based global think tank released the State of the Future 19 0 in Oct 2017 This 19th edition of the report brings together robust and diverse data information and intelligence The Millennium Project works with U N organizations governments corporations NGOs universities and individuals and has established 65 nodes groups of individuals and institutions throughout the world to interconnect global and local thinking 44 Paul Millman 73 New England MEd is the co founder and president of Chroma Technology a leading manufacturer of optical filters and related products Chroma s positive business practices were highlighted in a Nov 27 2017 Forbes story about the company s practices of hiring and retaining older workers and encouraging mentoring and peer work trainers Betty Turner 73 75 Philadelphia BA MEd was honored by the Germantown United Community Development Corporation a nonprofit that promotes the revitalization of Germantown s business corridors Betty was one of two inaugural recipients of the Pillar of the Community Award She taught at Antioch from 1977 to 1986 receiving a Faculty Leadership and Development Award in 1983 Wilbur Will Colom 76 Antioch School of Law JD was featured in the May 2018 Deseret News about how his friendship with attorney Jim Hill forged an alliance between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Just five years out of law school Will became the youngest lawyer in history to argue a case before the U S Supreme Court Mississippi University for Women vs Hogan which established the major precedent abolishing single sex state supported education He is the founding senior partner at Colom Law Firm with offices in Columbus and Jackson MS and Atlanta GA Idris Ackamoor 73 Antioch College BA and his musical group The Pyramids have a new album out An Angel Fell Strut Records The alto saxophonist co founded The Pyramids in 1972 while participating in an Antioch Education Abroad program Michele Mirman 76 Antioch School of Law JD is President of the Brooklyn Women s Bar Association She is Managing Partner at Mirman Markovits Landau P C in New York City In 1985 she won the then highest verdict in the U S 4M on behalf of a rape victim Leonard Hoshijo 73 Antioch College BA was appointed by Hawaii Governor David Ige in Jan 2018 to head the state s Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Robert Bobb Stokes 76 Antioch College BA was honored as the 2018 Distinguished Alum at Triad High School in North Lewisburg OH Dr Stokes has more than 40 years of ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Courtesy of Wendy Chen 15 Above Alumni students and staff participated in a Day of Service at Kenneth Hahn Park in Culver City CA on Jan 14 2018 The group planted trees and shrubs along the park s eastern ridge The day was organized by the Antioch University Los Angeles Alumni Council with Mujeres de la Tierra an organization that inspires leadership in women and children Right Jeff Eamer BA 16 MA 18 experience in general transportation planning and applied transportation research He served as department head and professor of civil engineering at Kansas State University Jeffrey M Kolansky 78 Antioch School of Law JD is Vice President of the Philadelphia Police Foundation a nonprofit organization that supports the Philadelphia Police Department He is Managing Partner of the Philadelphia office of Archer P C Laura S Reddick 80 Philadelphia BA is Associate Director for Adult and Veteran Student Recruitment at Temple University She co chaired the 2017 National Association of Veterans Program Administrators conference Joe Dysard II 81 Antioch College BA was inducted into the 2018 Bellevue WA High School Halls of Academy Excellence He is a national expert in the water and wastewater industry Cindy Thomashow 78 New England MS Env Studies is codirector of the graduate program in Urban Environmental Education at IslandWood in partnership with Antioch University Seattle The program launched in 2015 and prepares educators to work at the intersection of social justice and environmental leadership in urban settings Lynne Freeman 79 82 Los Angeles BA MA Clinical Psych recently launched a new online mental health directory at psychotherapesource com and welcomes participation by Antioch psychology alumni A specialist in anxiety disorders she operates a private practice in Encino CA and is a lecturer and frequent commentator for radio and television She published a book Panic Free in 1999 Arlene Hilton 79 Philadelphia BA is a professional jazz singer and event producer in Philadelphia where she performs regularly with some of the city s top jazz musicians Leticia Egea Hinton 82 Philadelphia MA Public Admin was appointed to Philadelphia s new school board in April 2018 She has worked with city agencies to help the homeless for nearly 30 years including serving as the Director of Operations for the City of Philadelphia in charge of the nationally recognized Centralized Intake and Emergency Housing system 1980s Hel ne Aylon 80 San Francisco MA Women s Studies was interviewed by The Brooklyn Rail about her 2017 traveling exhibition Afterword For the Children Hel ne says the cover story somehow turned out to be about my mother along with the art reviews just like in my book when I went on and on about her Chris McGinley 83 Philadelphia MEd is Associate Professor of School Leadership and coordinator of the Educational Leadership Program at Temple University He is a Mayoral

ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES appointee to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission Susan Strouse 83 San Francisco BA published The INTRAfaith Conversation How Do Christians Talk Among Ourselves About INTERfaith Matters The book explores the importance of intrafaith conversations as a path to deeper and more meaningful interfaith conversations Catherine Auman Bowsher 84 Seattle MA Psych recently published Tantric Dating Bringing Love and Awareness to the Dating Process This is her third book She is in successful private practice in Los Angeles Amy Ballin 84 New England MST Science Teaching published The Quest for Meaningful Special Education a book which follows the educational journeys of nine students with a language based learning disability She is Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Education at Simmons College in Boston David Balakrishnan 84 San Francisco MA Comm Media is on tour with the two time Grammywinning group Turtle Island Quartet which he founded in 1985 The talented violinist was inspired to start the quartet while writing his Antioch master s thesis Maich Gardner 84 New England MHSA and her partner Antioch Professor Emeritus Edward Tomey each received a Paul Harris Fellow in Jan 2018 from the Keene Elm City Rotary for their long history of working with nonprofit organizations in the Monadnock Region of NH Michael Kohn 85 Antioch School of Law JD is President of the National Whistleblower Center the leading nonprofit whistleblower legal advocacy organization He is an attorney at Kohn Kohn Colapinto LLP Suzanne C Adair 86 Philadelphia BA Psych was named Associate Vice President for Affirmative Action at Penn State in Sept 2017 She had been Associate Dean of the Graduate School Donna Raycraft 86 New England MA Psych was appointed to the board of directors of Spaulding Youth Center in Northfield NH She served as the Executive Director of the Rape and Domestic Violence Crisis Center now Crisis Center of Central New Hampshire until her retirement in 2012 Scott Hecker 87 New England MS Env Studies reports When I pursued my MS degree at Antioch I helped establish the Programme for Belize to purchase 250 000 acres of rain forest Now 30 years later most of which was spent protecting Piping Plovers and Roseate Terns for Mass Audubon and National Audubon I have circled back to the tropics Since January 2016 I have combined my experiences protecting coastal birds with those protecting tropical habitats as Director of Bird Conservation for the International Conservation Fund of Canada Teri McKenzie Schwindler 88 Seattle MA Whole Systems Design is the founder and Executive Director of the Inland Northwest Food Network in Coeur d Alene ID a nonprofit organization that connects people place food and farms through education and outreach 1990s Pamela Sackett 90 Seattle BA announces The Emotion Literacy Advocates Enrichment Certification Program My Alphabet to Freedom Liberating the Language of Choice Connection The program includes arts based communication tools for counseling parenting mentoring and teaching Pamela is the principal artist and founder of Seattle based Emotion Literacy Advocates Dr Siri Sat Nam Singh 91 Los Angeles MA Psych was propelled into the national spotlight last year when his show The Therapist debuted on Viceland TV On the show Dr Siri talks with musicians to discover what lies beneath their public personas Interviewees have included pop star Katy Perry rapper Freddie Gibbs Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and hiphop artist Prodigy in one of his last interviews before he passed away Sherry Landrum 92 McGregor MA Theatre Arts is the Artistic Director of the Chattanooga State Repertory Theatre and head of the Professional Acting Training Program She has won two Best Director awards from the Los Angeles Drama Critics and a Best Director award from the Tennessee Theatre Association Landrum has written two musicals with popular American composer George S Clinton She also co founded directs and performs with the awardwinning improv comedy group Chattanoodle Carla Feroni 93 New England MS Resource Mgt Admin became Housing Coordinator for Falmouth MA in Nov 2017 Carla worked as a senior environmental analyst for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for the last 24 years Minnie Bommer 93 Midwest MA Rural Community Dev was one of three African American women saluted by the Town of Mason Tennessee as a trailblazer at the town s first Black History program in Feb 2018 Her accomplishments include developing a statewide nonprofit that helps struggling minority agencies provide enhanced community services She served as the state coordinator for the Tennessee Minority Health and Community Development Coalition and cofounded and served as board chair for Children and Family Services Inc Diane Tefft Young 93 McGregor MA Psych published her second health related memoir Cancer Hope Discovering Survivor Skills in 2017 The book discusses the diverse skills Diane used to survive stage 3C cancer just a few years after her lung transplant Mary Baures 94 New England PsyD published a book called Love Heals Baby Elephants Rebirthing Ivory Orphans which chronicles the devastating consequences of the ivory trade and the joyous recovery of four orphaned calves she adopted Dr Baures is a writer wildlife photographer artist and psychologist Mark Dion 94 New England MHSA ran for Governor of Maine in 2018 He has been a Maine State Senator D representing District 28 since 2010 and is a former Cumberland County sheriff Diane Reynolds 94 Los Angeles MA Clinical Psych launched Reflective Praxis Consulting in 2017 to support growing demand as a trainer and organizational consultant in the burgeoning field of reflective supervision aka reflective practice for organizations serving children and families Dr Clarice Ford 95 Seattle BA MA Education is the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Illinois Springfield UIS Ford has been at UIS since 2008 in various roles and had served as Interim Vice Chancellor since 2014 Jayne DeMente 96 Los Angeles BA is leading an excavation in the Wash Basin of Pikes Canyon in Yucca Valley California in August 2018 The excavation is being organized by the nonprofit Womens Heritage Project It will focus on seeking and defining Native American artifacts from an archaeomythology ethnic and gender partnership perspective David McGowan 96 New England MS Resource Mgt Admin is Executive Director of the Williamstown MA Rural Lands Foundation He has a history of spearheading successful projects to conserve land throughout Massachusetts San Francisco area alumni gathered in Nov 2017 for brunch at Mission Bay Conference Center The event brought together seven decades of alumni ranging from Antioch College graduates from the 1950s to a 2017 Santa Barbara alumna as well as faculty staff from Antioch West which operated in San Francisco until 1989 Nine campuses and centers past and present were 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Santa Barbara s Counseling and Psychology program She also teaches in the Depth Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute Photo Kathryn Downey Sherry Godlewski 92 center of the NH Department of Environmental Services was honored for her leadership as a climate change adaptation professional The award was presented at the 2018 Local Solutions Eastern Climate Preparedness Conference by Beth Gibbons left representing the American Society of Adaptation Professionals and Antioch New England faculty member Michael Simpson 86 co director of the Center for Climate Change and Community Resilience Alyssa Bray 98 Los Angeles MA Clinical Psych was named Chief Clinical Officer at The Guidance Center in Long Beach Calif in Aug 2017 As CCO of the nonprofit child and family mental health service provider she oversees the overall direction and vision of clinical services for nearly 3 000 children and patients Johanna Berm dez Ruiz 98 Antioch College BA premiered her first fictional drama Sol ne at a gala premiere at Caribbean Cinemas in May 2018 In the movie an actress returns to her Caribbean home on a quest to rekindle a romance with a female stand up paddleboard athlete Johanna is an award winning filmmaker based in St Croix U S Virgin Islands Pam Spence 98 Midwest MA celebrated 10 years of serving as editor of The Ohio Jewish Chronicle in Columbus OH She is also a feature writer for Senior Times Columbus OH and has recently been hired as a feature writer for Heart of Ohio Magazine Mansfield OH Following publication of her second nonfiction book Glad Rags Red Panties Cowgirl Boots and a Sweet Dress to Die For inspiring clothes and the women who wear them a successful Kickstarter project she is currently working on a second edition revised and updated of her book Mad About Mead Stella Cosby 99 Seattle MA Whole Systems Design was appointed to the Board of Directors of CES Energy Solutions Corp in Sept 2017 46 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE She is Vice President of People at Cervus Equipment Corporation a publicly traded Canadian company specializing in acquiring and operating agricultural industrial and commercial equipment Adrienne Gemperle 99 Seattle MS Mgt is Chief People Officer at NYC based Plated a premium mealkit service She previously served in senior human resources roles at Starbucks for nine years most recently as Senior VP of Partner Resources In that role she oversaw a team of HR professionals serving over 125 000 partners at 7 500 stores Alan Popp 99 New England MS Org Mgt heads the Mason Wright Foundation which was honored by the Springfield MA Chamber of Commerce on its 125th anniversary Alan is the CEO of the Foundation and its two affiliates Mason Wright Senior Living and Colony Care at Home both headquartered in Springfield 2000s Latoya Boston 00 Los Angeles MA Clinical Psych founded and is CEO of Real Moms Live A Center for Behavioral Wellness which uses concepts of Emotional Intelligence EQ to empower families She is a licensed marriage and family therapist Krista deBoer 00 Seattle MA Education joined the environmental law firm Bick Law LPP in Newport Beach CA in 2017 as Senior Associate Previously she was an associate at Gibson Dunn Crutcher She received her juris doctor from Harvard Law School Wendy Elliot 83 01 New England MA Counseling Psych Dance Movement Therapy Org Mgt is a somatic psychotherapist and adjunct faculty member in Antioch University Joan Lester 00 New England PsyD was recognized by the Connecticut League for Nursing for her lengthy achievements in and dedication to her original profession of nursing Some of Dr Lester s achievements include establishing CPR courses at British and American schools in Rome Martin Amidu 01 Midwest MA Conflict Resolution the former Attorney General of Ghana was named the country s first Special Prosecutor in Jan 2018 He has been nicknamed Citizen Vigilante for his strong stance and campaign against political corruption Elizabeth Austen 01 Los Angeles MFA is the poetry correspondent for Seattle radio station KUOW FM Elizabeth was Washington State s poet laureate from 2014 16 and was the opening speaker at the 2017 Write on the Sound Writers Conference in Edmonds WA Faith LeGendre 01 New England MS Org Mgt was selected for the Aspen Institute First Movers Fellowship Program an innovation lab and leadership development program for corporate social intrapreneurs Eve Psalti 01 Seattle MS Mgt was a speaker at the third annual Bett Middle East and Africa Leadership Summit in Abu Dhabi in April 2018 Eve is Global Director of Audience Strategy for Microsoft Education she is responsible for Microsoft s strategy for students educators business and technical decision makers across K 12 and higher ed institutions Jerry Pyle 01 Los Angeles MFA was selected by the Director s Guild of America for the 2017 Television Director Mentorship and Professional Development program Emmynominated veteran writer director Rodrigo Garcia is mentoring Jerry over the 2017 18 television season Teresa Carmody 02 Los Angeles MFA has been named director of the MFA of the Americas at Stetson University in DeLand FL Teresa is also co founding director of Lew Figues Press Kathleen O Brien 02 Seattle MA Env and Community had an article featured on the GreenBiz website Principles of emerging leadership for the green building community excerpted from her book EMERGE A Strategic Leadership Model Kate Sipe 02 Seattle MA Education a current Antioch University Seattle adjunct faculty member was honored with a Green Lake Elementary PTA Golden Acorn Award and the Davis Law Group P S School Supplies Gift Program s Golden Apple Award in 2017 for outstanding contributions to her school community Beth Boynton 03 New England MS Org Mgt has created PILL Portsmouth Improv Learning Lab in New Hampshire Beth published a book Medical Improv A New Way to Improve Communication in 2017 and is considered a pioneer in medical improv training She worked with nurses from all over the world as the leader of a workshop on medical improv at the International Nursing Symposium in Riyadh Saudi Arabia Elin Torell 03 New England PhD Env Studies is an environmental researcher at the University of Rhode Island and Director of International Programs for the Coastal Resources Center Elin recently received a Woman of Achievement award from the YWCA of Rhode Island for her gender equity research in Tanzania Denise Dumouchel 04 New England PhD Env Studies is the new Executive Director of the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network BARN on Bainbridge Island WA a community for craft and invention that connects seniors who are eager to pass on their artisanal skills with young novices looking for experienced mentors Sarah Anderson 05 New England MEd Elem Educ has a new book out on place based education Bringing School to Life Place Based Education Across the Curriculum She is the fieldwork and place based education coordinator at The Cottonwood School of Civics and Science in Portland OR Darcy Cronin 05 Seattle MA Env Community is now a Certified Mama Bliss Life Coach managing her family beach cabin rentals Olivia Beach Camp Cabins OR and she is also blogging at Sustainable Family Finances Sherill Lambruschini 05 Seattle MA Org Psych earned her PhD in May 2016 from the California Institute of Integral Studies She recently accepted an online adjunct teaching position with Baker University in KS and will teach master s level students

ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES in the Organizational Leadership program She celebrated 21 years at The Boeing Company in July 2017 Kristin Lensen 05 Midwest MA is serving on the board of directors of the Community Cycling Center in Portland OR She is an organizational development consultant specializing in intercultural relations and diversity Geoffrey Steinberg 05 New England PsyD is collaborating with friends at the Center for Animal Research and Education C A R E in pro bono consultation project management and research design and analysis roles for the pilot study of PrideStrongWeeklong The emerging PrideStrong movement aims to mobilize its dedicated international community beyond passive consumption of adorable online content to an active coalition of hardworking volunteers serving local animal rescue and conservation nonprofit organizations Whitney Bell 06 Midwest MA recently published High Street to the Indigo Dream a debut poetry collection of lyrics meditations and free verse She was featured in the Dec 12 2017 issue of the Dayton City Paper discussing the new book and her unique poetry style Luane Davis Haggerty 06 PhD Leadership Change is a Senior Lecturer for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology Alex Kirby 06 New England PsyD launched Montford Hall a nonprofit residential recovery program in Asheville NC for boys 14 17 It is the only program east of the Rockies to provide long term residential substance abuse treatment for teenage boys Left Antioch University Board of Governors member Lance Dublin 73 at the Nov brunch in San Francisco Center Former Antioch West staffers Pat Tobey 72 and Brenda Besdansky 77 with Dennise Carignan 88 Right PJ Husack San Francisco 86 and Marissa Kochan Santa Barbara 16 Shelley Chapman 07 PhD Leadership Change is a consultant for Leadership Development and Theological Education for Africa working with World Gospel Mission WGM In collaboration with WGM she created the Leadership Development for Africa Program which provides scholarships and mentoring for emerging African leaders especially for women Gene Devlin 07 New England MS Org and Leadership and his wife Lilly are the new co owners and managers of Quimby Country a sporting camp and family resort in Averill VT that dates back 125 years and is the oldest sporting camp in the state Mykkah Herner 07 Seattle MA Org Psych had an article published on the Workopolis website in Jan 2018 titled Finding the words to talk about pay Mykkah has more than a decade of experience developing strategic compensation programs to ensure retention motivation development and the attraction of the right talent Ira Israel 07 Los Angeles MA Clinical Psych is an LMFT LPCC and author of the acclaimed New World Library book How to Survive Your Childhood Now That You re an Adult A Path to Authenticity and Awakening He has a private practice in Los Angeles and teaches Cultivating Meaning and Happiness through Mindfulness and Yoga workshops at the Esalen Institute and Kripalu Lisa Kreeger 07 PhD Leadership Change was elected to a two year term on the Yellow Springs Village Council in Nov 2017 A newcomer to public office Lisa is an Antioch University Midwest adjunct faculty and a registered nurse who has also worked in business Marian Blue 08 Seattle Cert has published many books including Interpretative Guide to WesternNorthwest Weather Forecasts 2018 Artie Kane Music to My Years Life and Love Between the Notes as told to Marian Blue and JoAnn Kane 2017 How Many Words for Rain Sea of Voices Isle of Story and Southeast Writers Handbook Forthcoming is her published interview with Donald Hall which will be included in Conversations with Donald Hall from University Press of Mississippi Megan DeBrito 08 Midwest Conflict Resolution is working at the University of California Santa Barbara as an Assistant Ombuds Previously she worked as a community and court mediator facilitator case manager and long term care ombudsman Charis Sharp 08 PhD Leadership Change recently accepted the position of Executive Director of Metro Montessori a family of private schools in Washington DC and Maryland She is also involved in national level policy work through the Montessori Public Policy Initiative council She recently managed a state policy landscape analysis conducted by Bellwether Education Partners which illuminated trends and common policy related obstacles to authentic Montessori education across 37 states Michael Whelan 08 Los Angeles MFA published a powerful piece in the Huffington Post I Died When I Didn t Have Health Insurance about his clinical death experience and how the Affordable Healthcare Act ACA allowed him to receive treatment for his preexisting condition Liza Lowe 09 New England MA Education founded and runs a nature based preschool at Stonewall Farm in Keene NH She was recognized with the New Hampshire Environmental Educators Educator of the Year Award in 2016 Matt Marr 09 Los Angeles MA Clinical Psych is the host of the Dear Mattie Show a weekly advice podcast that addresses listener emails with humor and compassion on topics of love sex or any of life s challenges with the help of guest hosts Julia Ruiz Selfridge 09 Seattle MA Counseling Psych is Director of Partnerships for Pogo Rides a mobile app designed to connect busy parents to trusted ride for their kids The app is meant to support parents open up access for disadvantaged youths build community and have a positive environmental impact Previously she was the Associate Director of Admission at The Evergreen School in Shoreline WA Kristin Leong 10 Seattle MA Education created Town Hall Seattle s 2017 EducationSoWhite event a discussion of teacher diversity and turnover inclusion for students from marginalized groups and the school to prison pipeline Kristin was a panelist at the second annual EducationSoWhite event on March 15 2018 She is also a 2018 Citizen University Fellow one of 30 international TED Ed Innovative Educators of 2017 and the founder of RollCallProject com Lynn Olsen 10 PhD Leadership Change recently joined Logile Inc as an advisory board member Logile provides workforce management and execution compliance solutions Lynn is the founder and CEO of The Innovation Group where he provides though leadership to senior leaders on a broad range of complex issues Anthony Scriffignano 10 PhD Leadership Change was recognized as the United States Chief Data Officer of the Year 2018 by the CDO Club which is the world s largest community of C suite digital and data leaders He is Senior Vice President and Chief Data Scientist at Dun Bradstreet Sheila Simpson Creps 10 MA Counseling and Art Therapy recently opened a private practice office in Anacortes WA She is an art therapist licensed mental health counselor specializing in grief and loss trauma recovery attachment enhancement a short term 12 week process with one parent and child age 3 6 and stress reduction SPRING SUMMER 2018 47

Kathy Urffer 10 New England MS Resource Mgt Conservation is River Steward for the Connecticut River Conservancy While a student at Antioch she won two awards for her public service documentary Understanding Brattleboro s Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Jane Alexandre 11 PhD Leadership Change was a Selected Scholar of the Women in Dance Leadership 2018 conference held in New York City in Jan 2018 She has been working in the New York dance world for over 30 years Nicole D Sconiers 11 Los Angeles MFA contributed the short story Kim to a horror anthology of black women authors Sycorax s Daughters The book was a 2018 Bram Stoker Award finalist Nicole authored the short story collection Escape from Beckyville Tales of Race Hair and Rage Barbara Way 11 Los Angeles MA Clinical Psych is the Clinical Director of The Way Out Recovery SCV in Santa Clarita CA and is licensed as a marriage and family therapist and as an addiction treatment counselor LaDawn Best 12 Los Angeles BA is immediate past chair and board member of the LGBTQ Center of Long Beach She is the Executive Director of Peer Health Exchange Los Angeles a national nonprofit organization that provides health education and mentorship services to teenagers by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education Meymuna Hussein Cattan 12 Los Angeles MA Org Mgt is the co founder and executive director of the Tiyya Foundation a nonprofit organization based in Santa Ana CA that works to provide basic necessities and educational opportunities for refugees immigrants and displaced American families Joe Jim nez 12 Los Angeles MFA was named to the Latino Book Review s 2017 Reading Challenge book list with his debut young adult novel Bloodline about a 17 year old Mexican American boy grappling with the trials of family legacy violence and young love Alyssa Kassner 12 New England MS Env Studies is the Youth Education Assistant Manager at Soil Born Farms urban agriculture and education project in Cordova CA Colin Lawson 12 New England MS Env Studies who is the New England Culvert Project Coordinator for Trout Unlimited was this year s guest presenter at the Branch River NH Paddle with Moose Mountains Regional Greenways in May 2018 Richard Lawton 12 New England MBA is Executive Director of the New Jersey Sustainable Business Council where he works with businesses and organizations to advance market solutions and policies that support a sustainable New Jersey economy Anadel Barbour 13 Los Angeles MA Clinical Psych authored Sex in Sobriety A Qualitative Narrative Exploration of Mindfulness Practices for Enjoyable Sober Sex Dr Barbour has been working in the field for over 13 years integrating Buddhist philosophies with Western therapies to treat her clients Glenn Chickering 13 New England MA Education was featured in an April 2018 article by the Natural Resources Defense Council published on EcoWatch com called How to Raise an Environmentalist Glenn is the head of upper and middle schools at Green School in Bali Tammy Stachowicz 13 PhD Leadership Change is co director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Davenport University in Grand Rapids Michigan and has a new book out this year Melungeon Portraits Exploring Kinship and Identity based on her Antioch PhD dissertation Rachael Warecki 13 Los Angeles MFA is Public Relations and Media Specialist for the Burbank CA Airport and an award winning writer she won the Tiferet Journal s 2017 Fiction Prize for her short story 10 25 EDT and an Honorable Mention in The Masters Review Short Story Award for New Writers Heather Bolint 14 New England MS Env Studies made national news in Oct 2017 when she came across a Polish crested rooster while hiking the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia and carried the rooster A Santa Barbara alumni happy hour reception in Sept 2017 at Villa Wine Bar drew an enthusiastic crowd 48 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE more than 40 miles to safety The story of Heather rescuing the rather exotic looking farm animal and hiking with him through three states went viral She brought the rooster to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy headquarters in West Virginia and then delivered him to an animal sanctuary Jennifer Carlo 14 PhD Leadership Change has been named the new Executive Director of Circus Smirkus an award winning international circus arts education organization headquartered in Greensboro Vermont Ryan Kmetz 14 New England MS Env Studies is Assistant Director of Sustainability and Energy Management at St Lawrence University He was the recipient of APPA s 2017 Rex Dillow Award for Outstanding Article in Facilities Manager for his article Designing a Resilient Campus appeared in Facilities Manager Carol Locher Ransone 14 PhD Leadership Change has joined BB T one of the largest financial services companies in the country as Senior Vice President within the Risk Management Organization Her new role will be to partner with those introducing change within the organization to facilitate the process and ensure that changes have strategic risk alignment and effective execution Markus Rogan 14 Los Angeles MA Clinical Psych gave a lecture on maximum performance under stress at the Castle Leopoldskron in Salzburg Austria in May 2018 on what successful athletes and experienced managers have in common and how to recognize understand and benefit from stress Markus is a psychotherapist and researcher in LA and a two time Olympic silver medalist and former world record holder in the 200 meter backstroke Froswa Booker Drew 14 PhD Leadership Change was inducted as a member of the 2017 Who s Who in Black Dallas Sylvia Asante 15 PhD Leadership Change is the new Dean of Labor at Berea College in Berea KY Additionally she was recently honored by Gettysburg College when they renamed the Gettysburg College Award of Distinction as the Sylvia E M Asante Award of Distinction Leah Batty Hibbs 15 Seattle MA Counseling and Drama Therapy is enrolled in the PhD in Counseling and Supervision program at Antioch University Seattle She is a practicing creative art and drama therapist with a specialty in working with traumatized children Tom Borrup 15 PhD Leadership Change was the keynote speaker at the Gwangju Urban Design Forum in Gwangju Korea He is Principal for Creative Community Builders and Director of Graduate Studies for the University of Minnesota s College of Continuing Education He recently collaborated with fellow alumnus Dr Tom Ellison 15 on a planning project to designate and build social and civic infrastructure for a Creative Industry Zone in Utah Jos Hern ndez D az 15 Los Angeles MFA was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts with a 2017 Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry

ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES Leah Hanes 08 13 15 Los Angeles BA MA PhD Leadership Change is the new Executive Director of Two Bit Circus Foundation bringing education through gaming to kids all over the country Working with Hong Kong Dubai and Australia Dr Hanes is delivering Science Technology Engineering Art and Math STEAM Carnivals and professional development opportunities Sunshine Navarro Shively 15 Los Angeles MA Nonprofit Mgt works for the Hugh O Brian Youth Leadership Foundation as Registration and Outreach Manager Layah Willis 15 Los Angeles MA Nonprofit Mgt is the founder and Executive Director of City Youth Exposure a Los Angeles based nonprofit that motivates at risk inner city youth to succeed by providing them with positive experiences Avanti Alias 16 Santa Barbara BA was the keynote speaker at Reaching for the Stars on April 26 2018 a fundraising event sponsored by Santa Barbara based Youth and Family Services YFS Avanti is a former foster youth who spent several years in YFS programs living at Noah s Anchorage Youth Crisis Shelter and then participating in the My Home program She talked about her struggles in coming from a family torn apart by domestic violence and then being placed in the foster care system and praised the My Home program staff for unparalleled love and supportive compassion which she says was crucial to her success Sue Bickford 16 New England MS Resource Mgt Conservation is Stewardship Coordinator GIS Specialist at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve in Wells ME She is teaching a course for Unity College in Maine called Drone Technology and the Environment Sue is working to bring drone technology into the Reserve System and has worked on several multireserve projects including creating a Reserve UAS roadmap The Way Forward Unmanned Aircraft Systems for the National Estuarine Research Reserve System Oleta Fitzgerald 16 Midwest MA serves on the executive committee of the Southern Rural Black Women s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice a collective of women leaders across Mississippi Alabama and Georgia dedicated to lifting up Black women and families in rural impoverished areas Oleta is the Southern Regional Director of the Children s Defense Fund running the regional office in Jackson MS CJ Goulding 16 Seattle MA Education Urban Env Education is Lead Organizer for the Natural Leaders Network and Legacy Camps with Children Nature Network CJ teaches and mentors youth on how to create healthy sustainable changes in their communities Quartz published a piece by CJ called People of Color Nature Belongs to Us Too excerpted from the book Coming of Age at the End of Nature A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet CJ was one of 22 writers whose essays were published in the 2016 book edited by Susan A Cohen and Julie Dunlap Omar Holmes 16 New England Clinical Mental Health Counseling is currently working as a Human Services Coordinator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Lynn Houston 11 16 Santa Barbara BA MBA founded and is Executive Director of the nonprofit organization A Different Point of View whose mission is to engage inspire and transform youth using flight lessons as a launching pad Many participants come from low income families or the juvenile justice system Lynn a retired airline captain also serves as marketing coordinator for the Santa Barbara Airport Jim Irby 16 Seattle MA Env Community is the Social Enterprise Manager for One Step Away in Philadelphia a trainer for Philly Thrive and a contributor to social impact news site Generocity He recently wrote a piece about organizations that are encouraging Philadelphia to become a leader in renewable energy Todd Kulczyk 16 Seattle MA Couple and Family Therapy is a psychotherapist and drama therapist in Iceland He was nominated to join the Association of Family Therapists in Iceland board in Sept 2017 and now he s on their committee to create educational standards for family therapy licensure in Iceland He is also on the steering committee for the Nordic Art Therapies Conference for 2018 Photo courtesy of Cindy Everhart Amanda Lopez 16 Santa Barbara MA Clinical Psych is a Clinical Therapist Intern at Clovis Unified School District CA Pauline McCharles 14 16 Seattle BA MA Org Dev organized the International Humanistic Management Conference in Seattle in Oct 2017 to inspire the people who get things done in your organization Delbert Richardson 16 Seattle BA received the National Education Association s 2017 Carter G Woodson Memorial Award for his Unspoken Truths American History Traveling Museum MD Spicer Sitzes 14 16 Los Angeles BA MA Urban Sustainability is Associate Director of The Body Positive in Berkeley CA an organization that supports positive body attitudes among children and adults and a consultant with Building Allies which works to educate and empower cisgender or non trans individuals to become active allies for the trans and gender nonconforming communities LaTonya Branham 02 17 Midwest MA Mgt PhD Leadership Change was appointed University Registrar and Assistant Professor in University Studies at DePauw University Stephanie Dawson 17 Midwest MA Special Education was voted Teacher of the Year at Meadowdale High School in Dayton Ohio This was her first year teaching Special Education since graduating with her education degree and a Mild to Moderate Intervention Specialist license Florida alumni and family members enjoyed a March 2018 brunch at Lido Beach Resort in Sarasota and had a lively discussion with Chancellor Bill Groves Shawn Fields 15 17 Seattle BA MA Education founded the Seattle nonprofit Connecting Generations Community Services which connects youth and seniors to foster mutually beneficial experiences for both She is also Youth Program Director at Tolliver Temple Memorial Church in Seattle Diego Ortiz Quintero 17 Los Angeles MA Nonprofit Mgt is celebrating his first anniversary as Communications Director of the American Heart Association in New York City Amanda Stuebe 17 Los Angeles MA Nonprofit Mgt was appointed Director of Admissions and the Call Center at CLARE Foundation in Santa Monica CA in Jan 2018 CLARE is a treatment center for substance abuse and co occurring disorders Josh Stutz 17 Los Angeles MA Nonprofit Mgt is Associate Director of the Hanover Tavern Foundation in Richmond VA The nonprofit organization operates a historic site geared toward teaching about the area s Revolutionary and U S Civil War history Anastascia Terrell 17 Los Angeles MA Nonprofit Mgt has been hired as Operations Manager for the Unusual Suspects Theater Company in Los Angeles where she ll be reporting to Melissa Denton 15 who is the Executive Director of Unusual Suspects To submit news please email alumni antioch edu or call Alumni Relations at 310 578 1080 ext 118 If we made an error in a program name please let us know as some degree names have changed over time SPRING SUMMER 2018 49

IN W Griffith 1936 Wendell 104 Antioch College of Canal Winchester OH was Vice President Controller at Capital City Products He loved music and was very active with the Upper Arlington Lutheran Church choir Sept 17 2017 Whitmore 1937 Eleanore Jantz 105 Antioch College of Durham NC was the first woman accepted into postgraduate studies at Northwestern She taught psychology and psychotherapy at the University of Maryland School of Medicine July 30 2017 N Phinney 98 1940 Erma Antioch College of Glastonbury CT taught at Painesville Ohio High School until entering the U S Navy She served in the Navy as a WAVES lieutenant during World War II and the Korean Conflict Aug 2 2017 C Robinson 1941 Robert 98 Antioch College of Chicago IL served in the Army Air Corps during World War II He returned to service during the Korean War and remained in the U S Air Force as a meteorologist for the balance of 20 years Following his military service he returned to teaching July 28 2017 R Finlayson 1942 Barbara 99 Antioch College of Tinley Park IL was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution family genealogy and family history She founded a chapter of the League of Women Voters in Chesterton IN Aug 15 2017 1943 Shirley Holm 97 Antioch College of Prentice WI worked at Hormel Foods in Austin Minnesota She baked an estimated 7 000 loaves of bread during her baking career Shirley loved animals and enjoyed traveling Nov 12 2017 D Clarke 1944 Margaret 97 Antioch College of South Lee MA was employed as a medical secretary and as a parish secretary at St Paul s 50 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE ME M O R I AM Antioch celebrates lives of meaning and purpose as we remember those from our community who have passed Our ranks are diminished by their loss Episcopal Church in Stockbridge Nov 10 2017 1945 Frederick Geist 94 Antioch College of Dallas TX held a private practice in internal medicine He served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dec 10 2017 Carolyn P Miller 95 Antioch College of Rockport IN was a lifelong member of The Religious Society of Friends the Quakers and an integral part of the Rockport community March 12 2018 H Rawe 94 1946 Kenneth Antioch College of East Amherst NY was a retired civil engineer contractor and decorated World War II veteran He was seriously wounded at Guebling France on November 18 1944 for which he was awarded a Purple Heart Bronze Star and French Legion of Honor Aug 8 2017 Beyer 91 Antioch 1949 Ann College of Penney Farms FL worked as a biochemist at University of Buffalo s Chronic Disease Research Institute She held leadership positions with the local chapter of the American Association of University Women and lobbied for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s Oct 24 2017 Elizabeth Betsy A Mazursky 90 Antioch College of Santa Monica CA was a social justice advocate and her philanthropy included the Los Angeles Free Clinic Liberty Hill Foundation Planned Parenthood National Farm Workers Association Instituto de Education Popular del Sur de California IDEPSCA and the Democratic National Party She was predeceased by her husband of 61 years film director writer and actor Paul Mazursky Sept 29 2017 M Gafvert 90 1950 Jane Antioch College of for the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America and the Lake Ariel Volunteer Fire Company Auxiliary Jan 13 2018 Rehoboth Beach DE worked at Antioch School of Law in Washington DC Jane moved on to a short career at the Delaware State Library After retiring she managed the Medical Library at Beebe Hospital Aug 14 2017 Lynn Westerman White 87 Antioch College of Sewickley PA was a cost analyst for Foster Wheeler Inc She did volunteer work in a psychiatric ward of a VA hospital and the Royer Greaves School for Blind Children July 22 2017 E W O Dell 93 Antioch College of Morris Plains NJ served in the Army Air Corps during WWII He studied mechanical engineering at Antioch earned an MS in Applied Physics at Brown University and worked as a research physicist March 3 2018 R Thompson 1954 Richard 87 Antioch College of Bethlehem PA worked for Bethlehem Steel in research and at BethEnergy in coal and coke technology receiving lifetime recognition awards for his work Feb 4 2018 Trevorrow Richard W Hale 84 1951 Nancy Carbonara 89 Antioch 1955 Antioch College of College of Pittsburgh PA was a child psychologist in Pittsburgh and practiced in Mt Lebanon for many years before her retirement in 2013 March 16 2018 F Hart 87 1953 Leon Antioch College of Poughkeepsie NY was a member of the interracial Chester Repertory Theatre in Pennsylvania He and his wife Robin Lloyd were active participants in the civil rights movement throughout the 1960s July 4 2017 Byron By R Higgins 88 Antioch College of Ludington MI was a Commander in the U S Navy After he retired from the Navy in 1974 he served as manager of Lincoln Hills Golf Club April 17 2018 Robert C Hawley 87 Antioch College of Berkeley CA had a long career at Chevron Corporation pioneering new technologies in data storage July 18 2017 Mary Raffensperger 87 Antioch College of West Des Moines IA worked as a private duty nurse for most of her career After retirement she was a volunteer at Mercy Hospital of Des Moines Dec 28 2017 John N Rockman 90 Antioch College of Lake Ariel PA volunteered Ithaca NY worked in the aeronautical engineering industry at United Aircraft Research Laboratories and ThermAdvanced Research He was a partner in Sage Action Inc and helped develop the bubble generator Jan 9 2018 Y Chalmers 1956 George 84 Antioch College of Santa Barbara CA spent two years in the Army s Counter Intelligence Corps CID before he earned an MBA from Stanford University He had multiple careers in the real estate world but his real passion was golf March 18 2018 A Fry 82 1958 Flora Antioch College of Mechanicsburg PA worked for the Social Security Administration s Office of Research Statistics and Policy Analysis as a research statistician She was a fervent participant in human rights affairs Nov 1 2017 Barber 80 1960 Patricia Antioch College of Fremont CA was a lifelong liberal and volunteer who felt passionately about human rights for all Sept 19 2017 M Hopkins 82 1961 John Antioch College of Vashon WA was in the United States Marine Corps and served in Europe and Morocco He was the Marketing Vice

President of Blue Cross After retiring from Washington Dental Service he traveled the world Aug 20 2017 James L Seeley 80 Antioch College of Columbia SC was a beloved English teacher at Freeport High School He earned a master s degree from Hofstra University and a second master s degree from NYU New School and participated in multiple writing workshops across the country April 3 2018 Rev Joan D Williams Jones 79 Antioch Philadelphia of Philadelphia PA was a social worker and an ordained and licensed minister She worked in an adult literacy program and taught in a GED program She was an active member of the Congress of Black Women Oct 11 2017 1963 Norris A Edney 81 Antioch College of Clinton MS served as interim and acting president of Alcorn State University He was also president of the Southwestern Athletic Conference Aug 26 2017 1966 Michael D Houghton 74 Antioch College of South Nyack NY was owner of the Ben Franklin Bookshop a film editor and independent filmmaker He wrote a self published essay The Office A Nyack Nightclub 1975 1987 and was a columnist for The Nyack Villager Oct 29 2017 reporting and editing retiring from the Star Gazette Empire NY as the Corning Bureau Chief July 30 2017 Lawrence 1967 Edward Larry Ballen 74 Wayne Fyffe 76 1969 Darrel Antioch College of Lady Antioch College of Wilmington DE served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela He and his brother turned a local family record manufacturer into Disc Makers the nation s leader for independent musicians Nov 25 2017 Anne Forer Pine 72 Antioch College of Tucson AZ was a selfdescribed left wing hippie early feminist activist and writer Her use of the phrase consciousness raising helped make it a foundational principle of the women s rights movement Under the pen name Anne Wilensky she self published several novels and collections of vignettes based on her life and experiences in the liberation movement Clark J Reese 73 Antioch College of Vienna WV served in various roles as an engineer for Shell Oil He graduated from MIT with an MS in electrical engineering in 1969 Jan 24 2018 1968 Larry D Wilson 71 Antioch College of the Town of Orange NY had a long and distinguished career in newspaper Bonnie Reiss 62 Antioch School of Law of Malibu CA served as a senior advisor to then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and later as California s education secretary During law school Reiss joined Sen Edward Kennedy s Capitol Hill staff and worked on his 1980 presidential campaign She built a successful entertainment law firm in Los Angeles and used those connections to found organizations like Hollywood Women s Political Action Committee and the Earth Communications Office which promoted environmental awareness through popular culture She also produced the opening events for President Bill Clinton s first inauguration in 1993 In 2006 Reiss helped Schwarzenegger develop and pass AB 32 a landmark climate change law requiring California to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions Reiss was the global director of the Schwarzenegger Institute at the University of Southern California a think tank founded to promote collaboration across political parties and a member of the University of California s Board of Regents April 2 2018 Lake FL was a high school teacher and university professor of science and math education While teaching at Bowling Green State University he was influential in starting Village View Church of Christ and King s Way Christian churches Jan 11 2018 Wigs Elwood 1970 David Wilbur 69 Antioch College of South Portland ME had careers as an educator nursing home director and sports photojournalist for local newspapers Feb 14 2018 Hollis 69 1971 Jeremy Antioch College of Sacramento CA worked for Cushman Wakefield and CB Richard Ellis before concluding his career with the U S Army Corps of Engineers real estate division March 17 2018 Roth 68 Antioch 1972 Paula College of Helena MT spent significant time in Trinidad and Tobago helping locals in a medical clinic She delivered hundreds if not thousands of babies during her career as a obstetrician and gynecologist Oct 13 2017 Thomas 1973 Millicent Hartsfield 87 Antioch Philadelphia of Philadelphia PA was director of the School District of Philadelphia Career and Vocational Education Department She also worked as a biochemist at Jefferson Hospital in its research department Nov 16 2017 Herbert Bubbles Rogers Jr 85 Antioch Philadelphia of Philadelphia PA was best known for his educational leadership in the School District of Philadelphia He published two children s books Roger Robbie and the Backward ABC s and Roger Robbie Discovers Dr J s Secrets He was asked by Wilt Chamberlain s family to design a cover collage for The Big Dipper s memorial service programs His research and publishing of a print of the world famous Kentucky Avenue Atlantic City NJ is a historical and detailed illustration of the mecca of Black entertainment from the 1930s to the early 1980s A copy hangs in the Schomburg Museum in New York Nov 24 2017 Karen Sbrockey 68 Antioch University of Denver CO worked for Kaiser Permanente as a health education specialist and writer on health literacy She authored numerous award winning stories and essays Sept 20 2017 Mildred L Wilson Howard 89 Antioch Southwest of Memphis MO was a licensed real estate agent and a founder and charter member of the Homeport Navy Mother s Club No 985 Aug 5 2017 A Anderson 1974 William 79 Antioch Columbia of Randallstown MD was a talented musician who played with such legends as Ray Charles Fats Domino Little Richard and The Temptations In addition to his music career he worked for the Maryland State Department of Education as chief compliance officer making sure school systems were in compliance with the Civil Rights Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act Jan 31 2018 Kenneth R Doane 68 Antioch University New England of Delaware OH was an after school tutor for Delaware schools and avid follower of news and politics Nov 12 2017 Ronald M Simpson 77 Antioch University Los Angeles of Apollo Beach FL was a Vietnam vet who went on to serve in the Central Intelligence Agency CIA for 40 years He was also an accomplished opera singer July 14 2017 G Blodgett 87 1975 Marilyn Antioch University New England of Hanover NH established a riding program at Dartmouth College taught math biology and riding to teens with substance abuse issues at Vershire School and worked as a lab assistant at the Dartmouth Medical School Oct 29 2017 Manuel De Pinho 81 Antioch Columbia of Newport RI was a senior vice president at Morgan Stanley He was one of the first Americans granted a study abroad visa with American Field Service and one of the first Americans to enter Berlin after WWII Dec 1 2017 Shelley J Kravitz 64 Antioch College of Miami Beach FL taught elementary school for several years before earning a degree in International Law She became a County Court judge when there were very few female judges in Florida She was the longtime chair of the MiamiDade canvassing board responsible for overseeing elections including the infamous Bush Gore recount in 2000 Jan 2 2018 SPRING SUMMER 2018 51

Benton 69 1976 Ronald Antioch College of Springfield OH was a social worker who retired after 25 years with the Springfield Metropolitan Housing Authority Sept 12 2017 Elizabeth Hickox Sova 60 Antioch College of South Kortright NY worked as a costume designer in the film and television industry She most recently worked at SUNY Delhi as Director of the O Connor Center for Community Engagement Feb 28 2018 Carne 94 1977 Arthur Antioch College of Dayton OH served in the Air Force in WWII flying 35 missions over Germany He managed several department and grocery stores and owned Free Pike Party Supply Jan 17 2018 Raven Murie 64 Antioch College of Yellow Springs OH was an accomplished writer artist lineswoman and craftswoman She was a field technician for the phone company and some of her best writing came from this time Oct 20 2017 Mondesire 73 1978 Lois Antioch Philadelphia of Philadelphia PA was principal at Strawberry Mansion and was selected to be a leader in the Turnaround Principal Promise Academy to improve low achieving schools Dec 3 2017 Olga Pedroza 75 Antioch Southwest of Las Cruces NM spent two decades with Southern New Mexico Legal Aid working on civil and women s rights cases She served on the Las Cruces City Council Feb 2 2018 Roland Pfaff 76 Antioch WestSan Francisco of Joyce WA was a practicing therapist and along with his wife helped established and run an adolescent psychiatric unit His doctoral dissertation was on aesthetics and he delighted in the beauty of the world March 31 2018 Barbara A Turner 86 Antioch Columbia Maryland of Baltimore MD received an MSW degree from Johns Hopkins University She was the Director of St James St John Daycare Center and retired from Maryland Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Oct 16 2017 Ofelia T Vasquez 84 Antioch Southwest of San Marcos TX was executive director of the San Marcos Office of Community Action and 52 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE the first Latina to serve on the San Marcos Independent School Board She was a member of the San Marcos Heritage Foundation the Hays County Historical Commission the San Marcos League of Women Voters and numerous other city and county boards and commissions She was presented the Premio Letras de Aztlan Award from the National Association of Chicana Chicano Studies for her significant contributions to the betterment of the Mexican American community in Texas She co authored Suenos y Recuerdos del Pasado an historical account of the Hispanic settlers of San Marcos Nov 1 2017 Robert A Walker 62 Antioch College of Yellow Springs OH worked as director of the audio visual department at Wilberforce University and at Wright State University As a volunteer at WYSO radio station he hosted his own jazz program Jazz From the Village Feb 2 2018 Brown 1979 Subhanallah Ali 73 Homestead Montebello of Baltimore MD was a children s librarian at the Enoch Pratt Free Library and at SojournerDouglass College She was a member of the National Association of Black Storytellers and traveled Maryland holding storytelling workshops February 20 2018 Mary Louise Allen 84 Antioch Philadelphia of Ardmore PA was the former director of Haverford College s Women s Center and 8th Dimension where she spent over 30 years supporting students and connecting them to community service opportunities Dec 19 2017 Margery R Edwards 67 Antioch University Seattle of Seattle WA worked for Royal School District as a high school counselor for 19 years After she retired she moved to Ephrata and continued to substitute teach at neighboring schools Feb 13 2018 A Bunce 1980 Elizabeth 77 Antioch University New England of Munsonville NH worked in the Keene NH school system She was responsible for many innovative programs including the creation of an LGBT support group Nov 3 2017 DeVeria Dee Harris Stroud 83 Antioch Philadelphia of Pleasantville NJ worked at Atlantic Community College for 26 years as a counselor and teacher She also served as Assistant Director for the Education Opportunity Fund Oct 27 2017 G rard C William LouisDreyfus 01 84 of Mount Kisco NY enrolled at Antioch University Midwest when he was in his late 60s The billionaire businessman and art collector had a law degree from Duke University but his heart ran to poetry as The Wrap said in a story on his passing Sept 16 2016 From classmate Ellen Rachlin 01 William Louis Dreyfus held a lifelong passion for poetry He was a gifted reader and writer of poems He loved to discuss and debate the qualities that made poems exceptional which led him to pursue his degree at Antioch He also appreciated that the discipline of a regular schedule within the classroom overseen by professors he admired would foster his personal writing discipline He was very prolific during his two years of study at Antioch and several of the poems from this period were later published in prominent literary journals Due to the nature of the Antioch program and his residence in the New York City area the faculty within his degree studies were extraordinary including Molly Peacock Phillis Levin Charles Bernstein Charles Martin and Bruce Bawer The degree program afforded him the opportunity to have dedicated time to devote to poetry in the midst of his very demanding schedule as a businessman He continued writing throughout the remainder of his life He stayed in touch with many of his professors and they continued to have conversations about poetry He completed a book length manuscript Letters Written and Not Sent shortly before he passed away Courtesy of the William LouisDreyfus Foundation Shaun Gillen A Fernandez 81 1981 Lois Antioch Philadelphia of Philadelphia PA held numerous roles within the Philadelphia Department of Human Services and as the co founder of the ODUNDE Festival which celebrates the coming of another year for those of African descent Aug 13 2017 Jacquelyn Herbort 82 Antioch College of Morristown TN was a well known member of Cat Fancier s Association and had two of her Himalayan cats gain national recognition March 17 2018 Joseph MacLean 81 Antioch University of Taunton MA joined the United States Marine Corps after high school and served in Korea He also served in the U S Air Force and was a registered nurse Sept 17 2017 Penelope Penny Nichols 69 Antioch University Los Angeles of Cambria CA recorded her first album Penny s Arcade in 1968 During her career Penny played with many greats including lifelong friend Jackson Browne Jimmy Buffet The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Linda Ronstadt Jennifer Warnes Art Garfunkel Arlo Guthrie and Donna Summer Penny released the albums All Life Is One in 1990 and Songs of the Jakata Tales in 1993 She was married to actor Harry Shearer from 1974 to 1977 Penny earned degrees in music and psychology from Antioch University and a doctorate in education from Harvard University She is probably best known for her bi coastal Summersongs Wintersongs songwriting camps In 2015 Penny was honored with the Folk Alliance

Region West Best of the West Lifetime Achievement Award for her years as a world class performer as well as an inspirational music educator Oct 29 2017 M Donovan 70 1983 Shawn Antioch University New England of Lebanon NH worked on transportation infrastructure and land development projects He helped start the Mustard Seed Catholic Worker a soup kitchen that opened in 1972 and continues today Feb 19 2018 Robin E Grayson 59 Antioch University New England of Miami FL discovered her true passion of healing through Oriental Medicine and NAET becoming one of Florida s first licensed acupuncturists July 30 2017 Luann R Padron 63 Antioch School of Law of Savannah GA was a partner at Hudson and Roberts a member of the Savannah Bar Association and the State Bar of Georgia She taught history at Armstrong State University and Georgia Southern University Dec 19 2017 Lerner 65 1986 Clifford Antioch University New England of Spofford NH taught microbiology at Keene State College and was a longtime science teacher at Keene High School He received numerous awards including the Sierra Club Teacher of the Year and Outstanding Educator Award Sept 7 2017 Pat A 1987 Patricia Palmiotto 61 Antioch University New England of Saco ME worked at Dartmouth College where she also earned a second master s degree in Liberal Studies She served many years on the board of WISE Upper Valley Feb 4 2018 R Sarantschin 54 1989 Jill Antioch University New England of Doylestown PA taught at Doyle Elementary School She volunteered for many years at Peace Valley Nature Center July 28 2017 Gervais 1990 Judith Moore Pfeifer 72 Antioch University New England of Amherst NH was a retired teacher and certified real estate agent in New Hampshire Aug 25 2017 1991 Joanne M Adamakos 77 Antioch University New England of Manchester NH was a junior high school consumer education teacher with the City of Nashua School District at Elm Street Junior High School Oct 20 2017 Betsy A Camp 1993 Beth 68 Antioch University New England of York Beach ME was a dedicated mathematics teacher at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton NH retiring in 2001 July 22 2017 R Sheldon 1997 Michael 64 Antioch University Seattle of Tulalip WA was a man of many trades but his true love was fishing A proud member of the Tulalip Tribes he loved to do native art Aug 28 2017 F R I E N DS Mark F Bixler of Santa Rosa CA whose father Paul was the Antioch College Librarian and founded the Antioch Review Nov 16 2017 Alice D Bowens of Los Angeles CA was a former Los Angeles campus Board of Trustee member Feb 1 2018 A Bronder 54 1999 Nancy Antioch University New England of Sutton NH died in Casper WY of injuries sustained in a bicycle accident She taught math to middle school students and was tireless in discovering the most effective ways to help young people understand and use math Aug 7 2017 A Ward 73 2001 Michael Antioch University Santa Barbara of Santa Barbara CA served in Vietnam as a member of the Green Beret 5th Special Forces with the 82nd Airborne He enrolled at Antioch after retiring from work as a juvenile officer at Los Prietos Boys Camp Jan 28 2018 M Sullivan 71 2002 Helen Antioch University New England of Peterborough NH enjoyed a long career in education teaching in the ConVal School District retiring at 70 as the Director of Title 1 Reading Recovery Program Nov 17 2017 Dr Roy P Fairfield of Saco ME was the first director of the Antioch New England Graduate School in Putney Vermont and a history professor at Antioch College He obtained an MA in American History and a PhD in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University He was awarded a Fulbright Professorship at Athens College in Greece Roy was a co creator and first dean of an experimental doctoral program Union Graduate School at the Union Institute of Cincinnati Ohio Roy spent his career encouraging students and friends to be creative in their thinking He championed projects that supported dialogue dynamic discussion of ideas and positive contributions to their communities He was the author of two local histories of Saco Maine two novels about Maine and three books of poetry Jan 22 2018 Ceci 2009 Cecilia Schneider Antioch University Santa Barbara of Santa Barbara CA was the former Director of Financial Aid at Antioch University Santa Barbara She also worked with the Victim Witness program and Domestic Violence Solutions Aug 3 2017 M Gunderson 2012 Tracie 34 Antioch University Santa Barbara of Summerland CA was a passionate advocate for veterans She served as a Veteran Services Coordinator for Supportive Services for Veteran Families at New Beginnings Counseling Center Sept 6 2017 Lamar Smith 35 Antioch University Santa Barbara of La Puente CA worked as a licensed clinical psychologist He was a behavioral health consultant at Genesis New Beginning and a clinical psychologist contractor at CHE Services Feb 13 2018 Please send any omissions or errors to alumni antioch edu Allan S Ghitterman of Santa Barbara CA was a longtime supporter of Antioch University Santa Barbara Jan 29 2018 Phyllis A Pennewitt of Xenia OH was a former Antioch McGregor accounting staff member Jan 12 2018 Walter Wally Sikes of Yellow Springs OH began at Antioch College in the cooperative education department and later was dean of students Feb 28 2018 Cecil Taylor of Brooklyn NY a former Antioch College faculty member was a pioneer of free jazz and icon of the avant garde Taylor was also a poet and often integrated his poems into his musical performances April 5 2018 Catherine E Thompson of Oberlin OH was a former Antioch College Dean s Office staff member Oct 4 2017 Togo D West of Barbados former Antioch School of Law Board of Trustees member was the U S Secretary of Veterans Affairs during the Clinton Administration March 8 2017 Roger L Williams of Laramie WY was former chair of the Antioch College History Department July 4 2017 SPRING SUMMER 2018 53

BOOKSHELF I wanted to illuminate the humanity in each character and to show that every single one of us has the capacity for bias and prejudice as well as for love says author Joan Dempsey 05 in an interview for Fiction Writers Review about her debut novel This Is How It Begins The story is organized around the dismissal of gay and lesbian teachers in Massachusetts as a result of religious right lobbying The protagonist an octogenarian Catholic art professor who rescued Jews during the Holocaust is the grandmother of one of the dismissed teachers and the contemporary socio political issues affecting her family force her to face demons from her past O C T O B E R 3 2 0 1 7 S H E W R I T E S P R E S S Michael had told her that within a few years Americans would be able to drive from the Atlantic to the Pacific without waiting at a single stoplight Michael had told her the Italians were using some of the billion dollars that America had given them to rebuild after the war for high speed roads here too Michael had told her a lot of things Christina Lynch s 13 debut novel The Italian Party centers around a young newly married American couple as they arrive in post WWII 1950s era Tuscany with many hopes dreams and illusions about each other as well as about their new country This book is the unraveling M A R C H 2 0 2 0 1 8 S T M A R T I N S P R E S S Khadijah Queen s 06 I m So Fine A List of Famous Men What I Had On is a collection of poems that address toxic masculinity through the lens of the author s interactions with male celebrities growing up living and working in Los Angeles She describes her clothes and how she looked during any given encounter and thus interjects her own impressions and observations onto the experience to provide the reader with a multi dimensional impression of what life is like as an inhabitant of her body I cut off my hair because I wanted to begin again with something on my body no man has touched MARCH 15 2017 YESYES BOOKS 1ST EDITION 54 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Alistair McCartney s 01 The Disintegrations is a cross genre novel that blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction story and eulogy poetry and obituary It is the story of a man obsessed with death and a study of Holy Cross Cemetery Upon receiving the Ferro Grumley award from Publishing triangle for LGBT Fiction McCartney writes A friend told me that Grumley was revising a novel at the time of his death and that Robert finished the work for him before passing himself a few months later To have my novel an auto fictional investigation into death receive a prize bearing both their names reminds me of how as LGBTQ writers it s so important for us to think about the traditions we re writing in to pay attention and give thanks to those writers who came before us wrote before us and created a space that made our writing possible AUGUST 22 2017 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Gayle Brandeis 01 stole the title of her memoir The Art of Misdiagnosis Surviving My Mother s Suicide from the documentary her mother was working on leading up to her death which speaks to the way that the lives of family members are interwoven and built around each other Brandeis journalistically records her own impressions of her mother s unraveling and explores the implications of childhood and family dynamics and events in an effort to come to terms with her own past and present NOVEMBER 14 2017 BEACON PRESS In Harley and Me Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life Bernadette Murphy 99 explores the advent of middle age and self discovery through the lens of neuroscience and from the vantage point of the back of her Harley Davidson motorcycle nicknamed Izzy I like how my helmet squeezes my face so that when I smile my cheeks jam against the sides of the helmet she writes in the early days when she is blazing through the canyons of SoCal Later she describes eating a tomato in Wisconsin after a thunderstorm The sunlit tomato almost falls from its vine into my hand It s as big as a grapefruit and still warm from the earlier heat of the day but washed in a sparkle of rainwater M AY 3 0 2 0 1 7 C O U N T E R P O I N T R E P R I N T EDITION Lighting the Fires of Freedom contains stories of women crucial to the Civil Rights Movement who led a wide range of efforts to desegregate public accommodations and secure voting rights they engaged in actions across a range of fields including law education and journalism These women were leaders without the expectation of recognition or official leadership roles Here author Dr Janet Dewart Bell 73 15 reminds us that African American women were active at all levels of the Civil Rights Movement yet too often they remain invisible to the larger public M AY 8 2 0 1 8 T H E N E W P R E S S Artie Kane Music to My Years Life and Love Between the Notes is a personal memoir from subject Artie Kane and author Marian Blue 08 It weaves a narrative of Artie from his early life to present from his first introduction to the piano as Aaron Cohen a child growing up in a Belarussian immigrant family to his transformation into Artie Kane Hollywood insider and pianist for film and television A piano lives at the center of my world My mother eight wives four girlfriends and three sons elbow their way into the space around it He is known for his work on Waterworld Mission Impossible and Outbreak NOVEMBER 21 2017 AMPHORA EDITIONS Sentimental Journey by Paul Sinor 12 is the second book in the Max Maxwell mystery series It is a tale of intrigue which includes a Korean smuggling ring a sailing mission on the Puget Sound and Max s own affair with an unhappily married woman The first book in the series Dancing in the Dark was one of ten finalists for the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Mystery category A P R I L 7 2 0 1 8 B L A C K O PA L B O O K S

LITERARY CORNER Permeable Divide the fourth collection of poetry from Ellen Rachlin 01 navigates the gaps between things people and concepts As she contemplates the world around her vivid images are called up for the reader Poet Molly Peacock described the collection as aphoristic and well aimed poems that explode when we least expect them to into a tender understanding of the rifts in our world This book was the 2018 winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award O C TO B E R 1 8 2 01 7 A N T R I M H O U S E Becky Dennison Sakellariou s 80 collection of poetry No Foothold in This Geography encompasses many worlds She grew up in New England but spent most of her adult life in Greece and her poetry calls on imagery and experience from these very different geographical locations At times her images are gloriously tangible eating a fig floating in seawater a body s smell a touch of skin a burnt dinner insurance premiums writes reviewer Irene Theotokatou The sensual the ephemeral the prosaic all of these inhabit her poetry along with gardens nature family her love of Greece and of New England her wide world concerns woven fearlessly together into a web as intricate as life FEBRUARY 14 2017 BLUE LIGHT PRESS Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano Lax 12 is set in Japan in the year 2029 but events of World War II are still having a direct effect on the lives of the characters in this sweeping novel that is part sci fi and part historical fiction Angelica Navarro a Filipina nurse who is the caretaker for Sayoko Itou who is about to turn one hundred years old The addition of a helper robot that can be taught to anticipate Sayoko s every need is the catalyst for an outpouring of 100 years of stories secrets and emotions Romano Lax s first novel The Spanish Bow was translated into eleven languages and was chosen as a New York Times Editors Choice BookSense pick and one of Library Journal s Best Books of the Year JUNE 5 2018 SOHO PRESS A Sampling of Work by Antioch Alumni To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Antioch s MFA in Creative Writing program in 2017 the MFA department published an anthology of work by Antioch MFA alumni including both new and previously published material The 314 page book features essays poetry fiction creative nonfiction writing for young people and visual art by 67 of the program s 800 plus alumni Copies of the anthology titled Lunch Ticket Special Lunch Ticket is the biannual literary and art journal staffed entirely by MFA students and alumni are available for 15 each at alumni antioch edu LunchTicket From Lunch Ticket Special print and online editions Flight Somewhere over Iowa I wonder what jumping would be dropping from sunlight into wind letting my hair twist tight in knots On Agate Beach two dogs chased each other etching tracks the tides took back like laughter dissolving into sound Ocean takes BY S H E L LY KREHBIEL 12 chances I tried dancing once even though I was afraid to step on her feet Falling gets easier relaxes Breathing forgets itself I know that no one will catch me and isn t that brilliant Blue above Below Those dogs Wet tracks Shelly Krehbiel s poems have appeared in publications such as The Midwest Quarterly The Fourth River and Sulphur River Literary Review She has contributed work to the dis articulations poetry project and To The Stars Through Difficulties A Kansas Renga in 150 voices Her poem May was an honorable mention for the 2015 Lois Cranston Memorial Prize Mouths open SPRING SUMMER 2018 55

You did not understand what I am I am love I am pleasure I am essence I am tenacious I am simply I am Ode to Her Unibrow F K They couldn t see why every wrinkling arrugado dimple every cicatrizscar bellowing above your curepo s prickliest equator the short hair pelo uncurled the way you downed half full botellas of vinos shots of tequilas perfumed boquillas exhaling fuma smoke from the side of your labios the aftertaste smoky so hermosa from the longing of your after midnight beso kisses Every inch reflected a canvas each painful refrain each awkward sonrisa smile reflecting a part of your nombre Art is not something that comes from los dedos each gripping view of your paintings each one oozes with aches that shakes from your manos demanding more than a life your vida reflecting a face hauntedly encantado with grace colorful brushes combing all your pleasures evoking todo fracturado the broken trying to reveal the essence of your agony framing a corazon consumed with exposing a single entrancing piece a part of the unibrow vision that is Frida Kahlo BY ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA 16 Quite Feathery 2017 by Courtney Putnam 03 Wave 2017 by Heather Hewson 16 Adrian is the author of the acclaimed poetry collection Flashes Verses Becoming Attractions published by Unsolicited Press Critics are calling Ernesto Cepeda one of the most original American Latino voices in modern poetry and reviewers are already praising his first book as More than just another poetry collection Flashes is a leap forward for the poetry genre Treehouse 2014 by Michelle Templeton 17 56 ANTIOCH ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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900 Dayton Street Yellow Springs OH 45387 ANTIOCH EDU Photo courtesy of Patricia Linn Associate Dean of Students Elaine Comegys left and Patricia Linn on the Antioch College campus in Yellow Springs in the 1980s Elaine Comegys who passed away in 2007 began at Antioch College as a faculty member in the Co op Department Patricia Linn joined Antioch College in 1986 as Assistant Professor of Psychology later serving as J D Dawson Professor of Cooperative Education Professor of Psychology Women s Studies and Associate Dean of Faculty She moved to Antioch University Seattle in 2004 and was a core faculty member until 2014 Read more about Pat s many contributions to Antioch along with other faculty news on page 42