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AUO | BA IN HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM NAMED ONE

OF THE TOP HUMAN SERVICES DEGREE PROGRAMS

Antioch University’s Online BA in Human Services Administration program was named one of the Top Human Services Degree Programs for 2020 by Intelligent com In addition to being named one of the top programs, Antioch received the additional distinction of Best Holistic Approach Emphasis Overall employment in human services is expected to increase by 14% over the next few years, which is faster than the average for all other occupations The steady job growth in this market is one of the many reasons Intelligent.com researched and ranked the Top Human Services Degree Programs

GSLC | STUDENT HONORED WITH ACTION LEARNING FELLOW SELECTION

PhD in Leadership and Change student Renee Bradford has been selected

as a new Barrett-Koehler Foundation Action Learning Fellow The Action Learning Fellowship is the flagship program of the foundation, bringing together thoughtful community builders with ideas and resources from the Berrett-Koehler network, to create a space for deep personal growth and collective learning Over the next eight months, Renee will explore the linkage between positive role modeling of philanthropy, activism, and authentic leadership of Black women with the grassroots giving of time, talent, and treasure of young Black millennial women to make greater impact in the global village

AULA | EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER HONORED

AS LOCAL HERO

Alison Suffet Diaz , a member of AULA’s Education Department Advisory Board was honored as a Local Hero Diaz is the Founder of Environmental Charter Schools (ECS) Under Diaz’s leadership as the Executive Director & CEO for the majority of the last 20 years, ECS has flourished into an award-winning educational institution with a dynamic team of commended staff members She was nominated and honored for the 2019 Local Heroes

AULA | VICTORIA CHANG AWARDED A LANNAN FOUNDATION RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIP

Victoria Chang, Chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program was awarded a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship for 2020 The Lannan Residency Fellowship

provides uninterrupted writing time for poets, writers, essayists, translators, scholars, curators, as well as Native American, environmental and social justice activists

GSLC | PHD STUDENT NAMED NEW COO OF ONECARE VERMONT

PhD in Leadership and Change student Sara Barry has been named Chief Operating Officer for OneCare Vermont, an accountable care organization focused on improving population health through care delivery transformation and payment reforms Sara brings decades of experience improving healthcare delivery systems and health outcomes In this new role she will oversee operations, facilitate strategy, planning, resource alignment, and stakeholder communications

AUNE | PSYD STUDENT SELECTED AS AN APA LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FELLOW

Alicia MacDougall (4th-year PsyD student), co-chair of APA Division 39 Graduate Student Committee, was selected as a 2020 APA Leadership Development Fellow A diverse group of 14 fellows (five graduate students and nine early career psychologists) was nominated by five APA Divisions and nine State Psychological Associations (SPTAs), respectively These individuals were selected from a very competitive pool by the APAGS Committee and the Committee on Early Career Psychologists, which worked together to champion this initiative

GSLC | ALUMNA RECEIVES HIGHEST PUBLIC RELATIONS HONOR

President of Rhoda Weiss Consulting Group, Inc., Dr Rhoda Weiss is the recipient of The Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) 2019 Gold Anvil Award This award is the highest individual honor recognizing lifetime achievement from PRSA, the nation’s leading professional organization serving the communications community with 30,000 members

AUS | ANDREW PARSONS RECEIVES TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD

Andrew Parsons, an alumnus of the AUS School of Education’s Alternative Route to Teacher Certification (ARTC) Program, received the Teacher of the Year award at Park Orchard Elementary School in the Kent School District for the 2019-2020 school year The recipient of this award is recognized as an outstanding teacher by fellow staff, parents, and students

AUNE | ALUMNA WINS 3K FOR SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT

Kristen Brock, Environmental Education graduate, was recently awarded a mini-grant from the Association for Middle-Level Education (AMLE) for her work with students at Colegio Americano de Guatemala Her project started as an AUNE practicum which she then developed into a service learning project to use in her professional career Her focus was to bring her middle-school students into rural areas of Guatemala and expose them to the realities of poverty that surrounded their international and more affluent neighborhood

AUNE | CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY WIN AWARD FOR MENTORING ARTICLE

Professors Lorraine Mangione and Kathi A Borden, Assistant Professor Katherine Evarts and their colleagues at the University of Denver,

published an article in Training and Education in Professional Psychology titled Mentoring in clinical psychology programs: Broadening and

deepening Their article, focused on recommendations for mentors to

enhance the training of clinical psychology graduate students, won the

2018 Most Valuable Contribution to Professional Development, Training or Supervision award from the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, beating out several other nominees across other journals

AUNE | PROFESSOR EMERITA AND ALUMNA PUBLISH ARTICLE

Gargi Roysircar, Professor Emerita AUNE Clinical Psychology Program; Ashland Thompson, AUNE ‘19 PsyD and Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Kurt Geisinger, Meierhenry Distinguished University Professor and Director, Buros Center for Testing, University of

Nebraska-Lincoln have published an article in the American Psychologist on their

mental health service and research in Haiti Roysircar’s profile also appeared in the

American Psychologist for as the recipient of the APA 2019 International Humanitarian

Award

AUNE | DMT FACULTY PRESENT WORKSHOP FOR THE VERMONT COLLEGE DANCE EXCHANGE/VERMONT DANCE ALLIANCE

Tomoyo Kawano, PhD, BC-DMT and Chevon Stewart, BC-DMT presented a workshop and facilitated discussion on two of the primary founders in the field of Dance/Movement Therapy during the “Think Move Discover.” weekend event held at Middlebury College Twenty-three students from Middlebury, Bennington, and Marlboro Colleges and the University of Vermont attended and participated in the experiential exercises

AUS | RASHEENA FOUNTAIN FEATURED ON KBCS BROADCAST

Rasheena Fountain, a graduate of the Urban Environmental Education program, was recently featured in a KBCS interview titled “More Than One Kind of Nature,” which discusses what shapes our view of the environment and our relationship with it Rasheena is a freelance writer, MFA candidate, and pre-doctoral instructor at the University of Washington whose goal as a writer is to highlight and provoke discussions about environmentalism, environmental justice, womanhood, sexual orientation, gender identity, and social justice issues through the lenses of the Black experience

AUNE | THERAPY 101 AT THE INCLUSION CENTER

Antioch alumna and licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Jennifir Bailes Hart was the guest speaker at the Brattleboro Inclusion Center Her public discussion included how to find a therapist that works for you, what therapy can look like, and the many different styles of therapy Bailes Hart graduated from AUNE in 1999 with a degree in dance/movement therapy and counseling psychology

AUSB | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY SANTA BARBARA INTRODUCES “KEEP

LOCALS LOCAL” INITIATIVE

AUSB recently received a $5000 grant from Wells Fargo, the first in a series

of grants sought to support the “Keep Locals, Local” Initiative AUSB will award scholarships to two high school students who had participated in the Pathway to Effective Access to College (PEAC) program while attending high school in the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD)

Specifically, PEAC is a pathway to support English learners in SBUSD

AUNE | ALUM CYNTHIA SEIVWRIGHT APPOINTED TO U.S POLICY

COMMITTEE

Cynthia Seivwright, Antioch Alum and a local leader in addressing substance use and addiction, has been appointed to a national committee upon the recommendation of Vermont Governor Phil Scott “[Cynthia] is a leader in our work to advance alcohol and drug prevention, treatment, and recovery,” said Scott “While there is much we can continue to improve on, Vermont has been a leader, nationally, in these efforts Cindy will bring a breadth of experience and expertise to this committee to help stem the tide of this crisis.”

Cynthia currently serves as the director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs Division with the Vermont Department of Health

The Graduate School of Leadership and Change (GSLC) is pleased to announce the founding of a new research fund to support doctoral students in the PhD in Leadership and Change program The Valentine Action Research Fund has been established by GSLC alumnus Dr Mike Valentine to honor the legacy of his father, James C Valentine, better known as Ping As a New York City firefighter and longtime member of the Shriners, Ping believed deeply in lifting up his community by reaching out

to troubled youth and mentoring them His actions and service to those in need exemplify the spirit of making a difference one person at a time and they underscore the value of action,

in the form of action research, that engages people in inquiry and action.With this generous founding family gift, $2,000 a year for the life of the fund will be available to support costs incurred by PhDLC students

conducting approved action research dissertations with underserved populations Two research grants of up to

$1,000 each are available each academic year “Underserved populations” refers to communities within the United States or abroad that suffer from poverty and disparities in education, employment, health and/or other indicators of community well-being

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GSLC | PHD IN LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE ANNOUNCES NEW RESEARCH FUND

AULA | THE NEXT CHAPTER: CELEBRATING SIX YEARS WITH KEN PIENKOS

The first time I met Ken Pienkos, Antioch’s librarian, I complimented his shoes In the midst of the mayhem of my first residency, I’d found unexpected solace in his joyful pacing up and down the aisles of the computer lab I wanted to thank him for it, but didn’t know how Like the dot at the bottom of an exclamation point, his candy red feet were the obvious thing to note, turning an ordinary business suit into something remarkable

AUSB | MFA CHAIR FEATURED ON THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY 2.0

Chair of the MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media Ross Brown was featured on TV Santa Barbara for the show The Creative Community 2.0 with David Starkey Watch Ross talk about hid long career as a

screenwriting and educator He talks about his auspicious beginnings as a stand-in for a dog in a TV commercial when was a production assistant at

an advertising agency to writing some of the most popular TV shows of the

80’s and 90’s including The Cosby Show, Facts of Life, Who’s The Boss, Step

by Step, to educating the next generation of writers

AULA | LISA LOCASCIO JOINS MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM

Author and Academic Lisa Locascio has joined the MFA in Creative Writing program as a Core Faculty in Fiction Locascio comes to Antioch with a decade of teaching

experience at various institutions including Wesleyan University, UCLA, USC, Colorado

College, and New York University Locascio’s debut novel, Open Me, was published by Grove Atlantic in 2018 A New York Times Editor’s Choice, Open Me was a semifinalist

for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

AULA | EDUCATION MASTER’S STUDENT FINDS A BALANCE OF

“MINDFULNESS” IN TEACHING SPECIAL ED AND COACHING FOOTBALL

Joshua Reitzenstein, was working as a Title 1 reading instructor and coaching football

in the afternoons when a phone call altered the course of his career path “I had taken the CSET and was beginning to think about becoming a classroom teacher That summer, while exploring the backcountry of Yosemite, my phone popped into cell service and I received a call from my district I was being reassigned to the special education pre-school due to Title 1 funding cuts The main thing they wanted to know was whether I’d be willing to change a diaper.”

AUSB | AN EVENING WITH AWARD-WINNING WRITER AND PRODUCER

FELICIA D HENDERSON

The MFA in Writing and Contemporary Media hosted a conversation with award-winning writer and producer Felicia D Henderson After beginning

her writing career in sitcoms like Family Matters, Moesha, The Fresh Prince

Of Bel-Air, and Sister, Sister; Henderson turned her attention to television

drama writing and received three NAACP Best Drama Awards for Soul Food,

television’s first long-running multi-season drama featuring African Americans She received a Gracie Allen Award for her depiction of women and a Prism Award for Accurate Depictions of Social Issues She also

garnered a Writers Guild of America (WGA) nomination for Fringe and a Gracie Award for The Quad.

AUNE | CENTER FOR DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE GETS UP AND

RUNNING

The Clinical Psychology Department’s Center for Diversity and Social Justice (DSJ) announced its new, team-based structure beginning the spring 2020 semester The leadership structure will include Kate Evarts Rice, Dean Hammer, Karen Meteyer, Monique Bowen, and Vince Pignatiello The five groups supported by the DSJ this semester include the Affinity Group for Race and Ethnicity (AGRE), the Affinity Group for Immigrants and Refugees, the Affinity Group for Climate Justice, Sexual Assault and

Harassment Awareness (SAHA), and Prism: The Center for LGBTQ+ Visibility Each group aims to incorporate community-building, research, and advocacy goals, in addition to their own goals

AUO | INSPIRATION2PUBLICATION PROVIDES AFFORDABLE ONLINE

WRITING CLASSES AND COACHES

Inspiration2Publication, an online program that provides affordable writing

classes and writing coaching, is now part of Antioch’s University-wide extended education programs Once part of the MFA in Creative Writing

Program at the Los Angeles campus, Inspiration2Publication is under the

broad supervision of Dr Terry Ratcliff, Provost for Distance and Extended Education

Designed to appeal to writers at all stages of their career, from raw beginners to experienced professionals working on their second or third books, Inspiration2Publication offers two and four-week classes, one-on-one tutoring and book coaching The generative classes help students create real pieces and provide the tools

to help them ready for publication The professional development classes provide practical tools to support communications and writing narratives

AUNE | FINDING CONNECTION THROUGH ADVENTURE THERAPY

At the center of William Hafford’s life has always been Maine At a young age, he moved from cities and military bases to the free-ranged sprawling greenery of the eastern state The New England landscape imprinted on Hafford immediately

These days Hafford has a PsyD in clinical psychology from Antioch University and works in adventure therapy Maine is still a key ingredient

in Hafford’s practice, and that’s where you’ll find him most days–canoeing, hiking, climbing, or some other outdoor activity For Hafford, the goal of these adventures is connection, a type of communion with nature

AULA | COLORS LGBTQ YOUTH COUNSELING SERVICES

COLORS LGBTQ Youth Counseling Services, which provides free and unlimited mental health services to LGBTQ-identified youth under the age

of 25, had a milestone year in 2019 It celebrated a partnership with L.A Care that will help to hire an additional clinical supervisor In addition, COLORS held a fundraising Soireé It was hosted by actor Charlie Carver,

who is best known for his roles on Desperate Housewives and the LGBT

history mini-series When We Rise Carver has been praised for using his platform to advocate for LGBTQ rights and is slated to be recognized by the Human Rights Campaign During the Soireé, which was attended by Chancellor Bill Groves, COLORS’ founding committee member and Director of Community Benefits at L.A Care Roland Palencia spoke of the importance of supporting organizations like COLORS The capstone project of an Antioch student and

member of one of the first LGBT Specialization cohorts, COLORS has provided counseling for over 5,000 youth

AUS | COUNSELING DEPARTMENT SPONSORS AND PRESENTS AT THE

NATIONAL ACES CONFERENCE

The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) is the premier organization dedicated to quality education and supervision of counselors in all work settings The AUS Counseling Department sponsored and faculty members presented at the 2019 ACES National Conference that was held in Seattle Chair & Core Faculty, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Dr Katherine Fort and Keiko Sano lead the discussion

on the importance of making invisible multicultural dialogs visible in all classrooms Dr Mariaimeé Gonzalez discussed the power of women of color in leadership, followed by an exclusive signing of her latest book,

Social Justice and Advocacy in Counseling: Experiential Activities for Teaching.

AUS | ALUM NICHOLE KLOCKSIEM AND PSYD FACULTY DR DANA WATERS PARTICIPATE IN GEEKGIRLCON PANEL

MA in Teaching alum Nichole Klocksiem organized a panel called Queer

and Geeky Educators Q&A for GeekGirlCon, an event in downtown

Seattle that empowers girls to pursue their “geeky’ passions, whatever they might be The panel included educators from a variety of

backgrounds who are equally passionate about education and geek culture They discussed their paths to the field of education, as well as their queer identities within education PsyD faculty Dr Dana Waters

AULA | USING POETRY AS VEHICLE FOR CHANGE

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

As a child, Kean read poetry, and in college, she majored in British and American literature, but she says she was too shy to try writing poetry After college, she worked

in public relations for 17 years, where she wrote stories and press releases During the last 22 years she’s worked in fundraising and nonprofit management where she writes grants and proposals At home, she has always kept a journal But none of that was the kind of writing her heart desired

AULA | AULA JOINED 35TH ANNUAL KINGDOM DAY PARADE

“Equality For All Humanity, Our Next Step” was the theme of Los Angeles’ 35th Annual Kingdom Day Parade on January 20, 2020 For the second year, the AULA community joined more than 300 parade walkers on King Blvd to honor Dr Martin Luther King, Jr More than 30 Antioch students, alumni, faculty, and community members wore t-shirts with Antioch College Alumna Coretta Scott King’s image and her quote, “Struggle is a never-ending process Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it

in every generation.”

AUSB | SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (SBIFF)

The 35th Santa Barbara International Film Festival was January 15 through January 25, 2020 AUSB partnered with SBIFF’s educational programs and had an on-screen ad appear prior to the 400+ film screenings during the highly attended ten-day festival (95,000 in attendance last year) This year some of the performers honored were be Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansen, and Renee Zellweger

AUNE | MFT FACULTY AND STUDENTS PRESENT RESEARCH POSTER AT

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Dr Denzel Jones, Marriage & Family Therapy (MFT) Assistant Professor, along with Pia Alexander and Amelia Flynn, second-year MA MFT students, presented their research at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)

Annual Conference in Fort Worth, Texas Their research, The Impact of

Socialization Agents’ Ethnic-Racial Identity on Communication and Socialization Processes, focuses on the ethnic-racial identity (ERI) of Black

emerging adults and their communication processes as socializing agents (SAs)

AUS | SCHOOL OF EDUCATION HOSTS SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING

WORKSHOP

The School of Education recently hosted a powerful, interactive event focused on Social Emotional Learning Attended by over 50 faculty, students, and alumni, the event was titled, Orienting Social Emotional Learning Towards Equity and was facilitated by Dr Deepa Bhandaru Dr Bhandaru is an educator and writer in Seattle She earned her PhD in political science from the University of Washington, where she specialized in political theory and cultural studies She’s passionate about community-based education and spent years leading and developing arts and advocacy programs for youth of color in South Seattle

AUS | SCHOOL OF EDUCATION HONORS MAT GRADUATES

The School of Education recently held a graduation ceremony and celebration for the Fall 2018 Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) cohort The room was filled with over 70 faculty, staff, family members, friends, and mentor teachers of the graduates The graduation ceremony was a joyous event Each graduate had a chance to give words of inspiration and gratitude and all were celebrated for the hard work, dedication, and collaboration that they displayed over the course of their MAT program Members of the cohort are looking forward to implementing all that they have learned over the course of the program, and are well on their way to becoming thoughtful, equitable practitioners

AUNE | SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION, AND GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY: HOW DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?

Lorraine Mangione, PhD and her colleague Roz Forti, LICSW, PhD, will be presenting a workshop at this year’s American Group Psychotherapy Association's Annual Conference in New York City on Thursday, March 5th, entitled "Incorporating Spirituality, Religion, Seeking Meaning and Growth into Group Therapy."