A Champion for Peace
For decades, José Ramos-Horta labored for the freedom of his country. His journey led to the UN, to Antioch, and even to the Nobel Peace Prize. Nothing was as good as going home.
For decades, José Ramos-Horta labored for the freedom of his country. His journey led to the UN, to Antioch, and even to the Nobel Peace Prize. Nothing was as good as going home.
When Grace Cavalieri taught at Antioch-Columbia in the early ’70s, it was a heady time to be a poet, and to be a part of Antioch. This campus—centered in the newly-opened, planned community of Columbia, situated between Baltimore and Washington, DC—had been proposed in 1969 and opened its doors in 1970…
Students studying in Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change are encouraged to form friendships and connections with their peers. In part this is good practice for developing leaders…
Your first session with a new therapist. They call you into the office. You take a seat on the couch and mentally prepare to process life’s challenges—all the while thinking, in the back of your mind, This person looks familiar. Only in LA, right?Well, no…
Across the country, Antioch alums are finding and creating different roles to accomplish the common goal of helping people in their moments of need.
Like many Antioch students, Laura Speight-Reddick ’80 (Antioch Philadelphia, BA) realized a little late that she was not only interested in a college education but also capable of doing the work…
It was a pair of foxes that lured Laura Andrews, Antioch’s Director of Institutional Advancement, and her partner Cary Gaunt ’09 (Antioch New England, PhD in Environmental Studies) to the old Ellis Farm.
Last year, the writer and artist Asata Radcliffe ‘08 (Antioch Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) created a “living installation” of a hurt that does not end. This haunting eulogy, titled “A Slower Ontology,” was told through fuchsia and purple light…
A conversation with Shay Stewart-Bouley ’06 (Antioch New England, MEd in Administration and Supervision) reminds me of that Thelonious Monk tune, “Straight No Chaser”—if there is one thing you can be sure of, it’s that she’ll let you know exactly where she stands…
I hoped we would be together today to send you off from Yellow Springs one last time.
I hoped that things would be so different by now.
THAT’s today’s theme. HOPE.
Since opening its doors 169 years ago, Antioch has been committed to the idea that the act of exploring knowledge in a nurturing space…
It’s the ones who are in the trenches, day after day, year after year, decade after decade, that really make an impact,” says Walter ‘Wally’ Clinton ‘73 (Antioch DC, BA), his voice tinged with pride…
This magazine is one of the ways that we gather as the Antioch community…
Earlier this year, Colleen Echohawk ’09 made her first big foray into politics…
It’s the rare student enters a program with the specific intention to build a brand new nonprofit…
It was during a long conversation with one of his professors at Antioch that Jude Nuru ‘19 ‘20 found the focus of his of his career…
Generations of Latinx people in the United States have faced discrimination, racism, and many other sorts of oppression…
To say that Julie Nataas ’18, an Indiana-based NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster driver, leads a busy life, would be an understatement…
The Seed Field Podcast—a new platform for Antiochians to share knowledge, stories, and justice-related work…
The Doctor of Education (EdD) program at Antioch Online has added two new specializations…
Who are zoos for? How can they do a better job of reaching underserved communities? And how do they include members of those communities in design processes they’ve often been excluded from?
In 1971, Sherwood Guernsey had just finished a Peace Corps stint in rural Panama…
José Ramos-Horta’s journey
from political exile and an
MA in Peace Studies …
to the Nobel Peace Prize and
Timor-Leste’s presidency.
Since our founding 1852, Antioch University has remained on the forefront of social justice, inclusion, and equality – regardless of ethnicity, gender, creed, orientation, focus of study, or ability.
Antiochians actively reflect these shared values to inspire positive change in the world. Common Thread is where we document the stories that showcase our communities actions, so the change we work for can be shared widely.
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