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Rachel Zucker is the author of ten books, including, most recently, SoundMachine (Wave Books, 2019). A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell Colony and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Zucker has taught at Yale, Columbia, and is an adjunct professor at New York University. Founder and host of the podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People). Zucker is currently working on an immersive audio project (also called SoundMachine) and a book of lectures called The Poetics of Wrongness. For more information visit www.rachelzucker.net

 

Dr. Stephen Southern is Interim Chair and Core Faculty Member of the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology (MAP) program Antioch University Los Angeles.

Stephen Southern previously taught at Northwestern University, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, University of Southern Mississippi, University of North Texas, and Temple University. He is a licensed psychologist (California, Illinois, Pennsylvania), a marriage and family therapist (Mississippi), and a professional counselor (Mississippi, Texas), as well as an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Clinical Fellow in AAMFT. Southern is an Approved Clinical Supervisor. He taught in APA accredited doctoral programs and served as a supervisor in APPIC and APA approved internship programs. He chaired psychology departments and directed outpatient internship training clinics.

Dr. Southern was trained at Masters and Johnson Institute and served as a clinical consultant in the treatment of sexual dysfunction, trauma, and addiction. He developed an integrative program for concurrent treatment of trauma and addictive disorders. Southern was previously editor of the Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling. Dr. Southern is Editor-in-Chief of The Family Journal and Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity. He has over 70 research and professional publications.

 

Cherie Bridges Patrick, PhD—is a racial justice consultant, leadership coach, and psychotherapist who works with counseling professionals, educators, and organizational leaders. She integrates her trauma-focused expertise with her coaching, consulting, and facilitation work to build relational, resource, dialogic, and leadership capacity for racial justice. Cherie has practiced clinical social work for nearly 16 years, is the founder of Paradox Cross-Cultural Consulting, Training and Empowerment, LLC, and holds a PhD in Leadership and Change. Her PhD research focused on racism, racism denial, whiteness, and racial justice in social work practice.

 

After receiving her doctoral degree in American Studies, with specializations in media studies and gender studies, from Washington State University in 2013, Dr. Nichole Bogarosh began teaching full-time at Whitworth University (Spokane, WA) in Communication Studies and Women and Gender Studies. She was also the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies for several years for the University and is currently a member of the University’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board. Her research focuses on issues of diversity, equity, and representation and looking at these through an intersectional feminist lens in the media and other social institutions.

 

Anissa Stewart, Ph.D. is a professional development and instructional design specialist, with over two decades of experience teaching across all levels of education. She has developed curriculum and professional development trainings in business communication, human resources, leadership, management consulting, marketing, personal branding, teacher education, among others.

 

Dr Lois Phillips was the founder of the Antioch University Santa Barbara Campus while earning her doctorate at UCSB. Her ability to speak to business groups, institutional partners, and the press was critical to the success of starting the campus. Her consulting practice centered around strategic planning for organizations across sector including non-profits, governmental agencies, and universities. Her doctoral research centered around gender and rhetoric and the value of using a gestalt therapy approach to teach students how to overcome anxiety and develop self-confidence (in general) by gaining speaking skills

She has presented her research at the JFK School at Harvard University, to Babson College MBA Alumni, and professional women at UCSB. She co-produced two television programs about the changing roles of women and has written WOMEN SEEN AND HEARD: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SUCCESSFUL SPEAKERS and WOMEN SEEN AND HEARD SPEAKER’S JOURNAL with co-author Dr Anita Perez Ferguson. She is an executive coach to women in leadership roles and often is asked to comment on changes such as the #METOO phenomenon. Students say she is a lively presenter who practices what she teaches.

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