A Vibrant University for a Dynamic City

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mary Sutton, activist and 2016 alumna of the MA in Urban Sustainability program has dabbled in a variety of careers from bus driver to graphic designer. Today, she is running her own non-profit Collective Remake, a social enterprise that supports the creation of worker-owned businesses and other kinds of cooperatives with people who have been “incarcerated […]

Michelle Thomas will graduate from the Masters in Nonprofit Management (MANM) program at AULA in June 2019. One month away from finishing her program, she feels as though she’s going through an intense transformation, experiencing change and growth on both personal and professional levels. “This quarter has really been about excavating souls,” she said. “The […]

Alumna Credits “The Antioch Way” with Opening Doors to a Career in Opera BA in Liberal Studies Alumna, Cindy Shapiro (’13), enrolled at Antioch University as a stepping stone to becoming an “invested Cantor” at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; instead, she wrote an opera. She explains: “Because I’d never actually gone to […]