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AUNE’s Clinical Psychology program recently awarded two alumni with it’s Distinguished Psychologist Award. The award honors graduates who earned their doctorate at least five years ago, and who are accomplished in the foundational competency of Relationship and at least two of the following areas of importance to an AUNE Department of Clinical Psychology education: diversity, social justice, intervention, evidence-based practice, assessment, research, consultation, education, management/leadership, supervision, and advocacy.

Exceptional nominees have contributed substantially to the profession and to those they serve as a psychologist, whether it be through practice, scholarship, or community and professional leadership.

Meet the 2019 Awardees here.

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AUS | LEE MAED STUDENT COOPER-SCRUGGS WINS SHARKS ON THE BEACHNiallah Cooper-Scruggs, an AUS MAEd with Leadership in Edible Education graduate student, and the pastry chef and owner of Sugar Queen Bakery, recently won Urban Impact’s 2019 Sharks at the Beach entrepreneur pitch competition.

Urban Impact describes the competition in the following way: “Sharks At The Beach, a ‘Shark Tank’- styled pitch event, provides local entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their ideas and win start-up capital!”

Entrepreneurs in the competition each participated in a 10-week business development course at Seattle Pacific University, before pitching their business ideas to a panel of business experts in front of a live audience in the competition’s main event.

Read more here.

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AUS | AUS FACULTY EMERITUS AWARDED NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDAUS Faculty Emeritus, Kate Davies, MA, DPhil, is the 2018 Nautilus Book Award Grand Winner for her book, Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times. The Nautilus awards select “Better Books For a Better World” in various categories.

Davies’ book, categorized as self-help, is listed as highly recommended. A note in the Nautilus press release states, “Kate Davies has provided us a book to use as a catalyst to spark authentic conversation with family, friends and various community groups.”

For more go here.

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AUNE | 17TH ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS The 2019 Environmental Excellence Awards were presented during the finishing ceremony for graduating students at AUNE on May 3, 2019. The Alumni Award and the Community Award are given annually by Antioch’s Environmental Studies Department to an alumna or alumnus and to a community member who have made outstanding contributions to the sustainability of the environment through professional or personal action.

Jennifer Kretser, a graduate from the Environmental Studies master’s program in 1998, was the recipient of the Alumni Award. Kretser holds

youth summits on climate change at the Wild Center, a living Natural History Center in her native Adirondack, NY, and around the world, including Finland, Sri Lanka, and Germany. She is the Director of Climate Initiatives at the Center leading the Center’s youth Climate Program which has been recognized by the White House, the EPA both regional and nationally, and NY State for this work which includes taking part in the United Nations Climate Change Conferences and being a leader in the Climate Reality Project.

Sy Montgomery, a naturalist, author, and scriptwriter, was the recipient of the Community Award. She has authored 28 books for children and adults, including The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, which was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was on the New York Times Best Seller list. Her most popular book is The Good Good Pig, the bestselling memoir of life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood. Her other notable books include Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Spell of the Tiger, and Search for the Golden Moon Bear. For more go here.

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AUSB | CAMPUS NAMED TO 2019 PHI THETA KAPPA TRANSFER HONOR ROLLPhi Theta Kappa (PTK), the honor society that recognizes and encourages scholarship among two-year college students, has named AUSB to the 2019 Phi Theta Kappa Transfer Honor Roll.

The list identifies the top four-year colleges and universities that create dynamic pathways to support transfer students. AUSB is one of 78 colleges across the country awarded the distinguished honor.

“We pride ourselves on our ongoing commitment to making college tuition as accessible and affordable as possible by creating pathways for traditional and adult learner students to complete their education and advance their careers,” said Dawn Murray, PhD, Undergraduate Program Chair.

“We are honored to be recognized for these efforts by Phi Theta Kappa.” For more information go here.

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AUNE | IN MEMORIAMIt is with a heavy heart that AUNE informs the Antioch community of the passing of a dedicated faculty member Dr. Teri Young, the director of the Integrated Learning program in the Education Department. Dr. Young has been affiliated with AUNE for over a decade and was the architect of the Dual Certification program in Elementary and Special Education. A passionate champion for progressive, inclusive, and humane education, she founded a wonderful small public school in Brooklyn, NY and then served as a consultant in leadership and inclusion in New York City, Vermont and New Hampshire. To us, she was a brilliant colleague and inspiring teacher who always focused on seeing the students in front of us as whole people whose dignity and inherent self-worth must come first in any educational endeavor.

The Education Department will be coordinating a celebration of life for Teri at the end of the Summer Residency program on July 26th. Details on that event will be made available at a later time.

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AUS | URBAN ENDEAVORS: ACTIVATING ASPIRATIONAL ACTIONThe Master’s of Arts in Education with Urban Environmental Education (UEE) at Antioch University Seattle is committed to advancing race, culture, equity, and inclusion in environmental leadership. Faculty of Urban Ecology, MAEd in Urban Environmental Education program, and blog writer Weston Brinkley, who wrote the below article, leads an innovative Urban Ecology series within the UEE program. Complex Urban Systems is one of three courses within that series.

Each week in Complex Urban Systems class every student presents and dissects a new urban endeavor. These accounts of activities, experiences, and aspirations in the urban environment are a cornerstone in inundating each student with dozens and dozens of stories from urban space. Through this approach and others each participant works through many of the events and experiences that make up urban life.

This most recent quarter has seen exploration of over one hundred topics. Examples include a local youth climate strike, a city council initiative for equitably distributing trees across communities, a range of new homelessness policies and programs, state implemented sliding scale grants matching for parks projects, and redlining in property deeds. The breadth of material helps build students’ confidence and acumen in any type of urban issue they may encounter. For more information go here.

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AULA | ADVICE ON JOINING A NONPROFIT BOARDTeaching faculty member and chair of the Management Studies Department David Norgard has been working in nonprofits for his entire career, and in that time, he’s become an expert on nonprofit board governance. Even after first graduating from school, he says, he “saw early on how boards have extraordinary influence on an organization, and yet they sometimes can be dysfunctional, and at other times, they can be extraordinarily helpful.”

Because boards of directors often operate in the background of an organization, they are rarely the focus of attention, but they are vital to the mission of their nonprofit.

“We often think about nonprofits in terms of having a great staff or executive director, a strong donor list, or a good volunteer corps,” says Norgard, “But what’s not obvious is, ‘do they have a well-functioning board?’” Read the full article here.

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AUS | DR. JUDE BERGKAMP CONDUCTS TRAUMA-INFORMED INTERVIEWS WITH IMMIGRANTS PROSECUTED UNDER “OPERATION STREAMLINE”

Dr. Jude Bergkamp is a forensic psychologist and Chair of the PsyD program at AUS. He is involved with challenging federal immigration policies such as “Operation Streamline,” a U.S. Department of Justice program which fast tracks the prosecution of people accused of unauthorized border crossing and automatically places them in deportation proceedings.

The San Diego chapter of the ACLU released a statement in April about an amicus brief filed by The New York University School of Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic. The amicus, which includes Antioch University, filed the brief on behalf of 42 immigrant rights, community and nonprofit organizations. The lawsuit challenged “the constitutionality of guilty pleas entered in ‘Operation Streamline’ cases throughout the southwest border.”

To better understand how Operation Streamline functions and the impact it has on all aspects of the criminal justice system, under the auspices of the Federal Defenders Association Dr. Bergkamp visited San Diego, CA where the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently implemented a version of the program. Kelle Agassiz, AUS PsyD student and Research Fellow, also made the trip and provided assistance with data collection, analysis, and report writing.

Dr. Bergkamp, who has twenty years of experience conducting trauma-informed interviews in the criminal legal system, observed Streamline court proceedings, interviewed immigrants undergoing detainment and deportation proceedings, and conducted interviews with judges and defense attorneys. He authored a detailed report on the detainees based on these interviews and his observation of the detainment and legal proceedings.

Read the full article here.

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AUSB | CLOSING THE GENDER GAP IN LEADERSHIP: AUSB LAUNCHES WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

AUSB first designed a Women in Leadership Certificate Program in 2014 and in May 2019, the program will relaunch a streamlined version of that course. The revamped course takes a 10-month curriculum of intensive residency weekends, keynote presentations, trainings, and mentorship, and combines them into three months to better accommodate busy professionals. The goal is not only to make these early-mid career women

— from fields across business, corporate, education, and non-profit sectors — aware of the professional challenges that they face, but to enhance their confidence and leadership skills in the workplace.

Dr. Jacqueline Reid, who teaches education and social justice in masters’ programs at Antioch, is the program’s director and says the new program is consistent with Antioch’s mission to empower students to advance social, economic, and environmental justice.

“Intersectionality is a critical issue to consider, and modern feminism is dealing with this as women try to understand the role that race, class, and gender identity play in having access and being visible in the public arena,” said Reid. “Women’s experiences in the workplace can be dramatically different, yet with these differences, there are also similarities we all experience as women. This program hopes to provide opportunities to understand the barriers women face, but also share practical, actionable strategies to overcome these barriers.”

For more information go here.

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GSLC | HOW TO HANDLE TRAUMA IN YOUR ORGANIZATIONAntioch professor Shana Hormann advises organizations and leaders on the collective experience of trauma—its impacts and how to build resilience. Like humans, organizations can experience trauma—and its very real side effects. This trauma can be internal or external, and if it is left untreated, it can affect an organization for years to come. Antioch Professor Shana Hormann, PHD, MSW, is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Leadership and Change, where she also serves as the senior academic program developer. For the past 20 years, she has researched organizational trauma and consulted for numerous organizations that have experienced a traumatic event, including nonprofits, governmental organizations, and private companies.

In addition to her work on organizational trauma, Hormann also consults on leadership development, indigenous empowerment, and building organizational resilience. An expert on interpersonal violence, Hormann originally began working with victims of sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence, but became interested in organizational trauma after seeing how Seattle Rape Relief handled internal and external trauma. As the center was closing, Hormann and her future co-author, Pat Vivian, did a case study of the organization, and asked the vital question: “Do you think it’s possible for a whole organization to be traumatized?”

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AUS | BA ALUMNUS SENATOR BOB HASEGAWA SPEAKS IN FAVOR OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INITIATIVE

An article in The Seattle Times detailed the events of Washington state lawmakers last Sunday in which they approved a measure to overturn a 20-year-old ban on affirmative action. “I-1000 repeals Initiative 200, a measure approved by Washington voters 20 years ago. I-200 blocked the government from giving preferential treatment to, or discriminating against, people and groups on the basis of sex, ethnicity, color, race or national origin,” reads the article.

The change is proving to be highly controversial. A group opposing the new initiative quickly filed a referendum to put it to a public vote. Heated debates arising between opposing sides of the issue could continue through to November elections if the group succeeds in getting it on the ballot, which will require them to collect

approximately 130,000 registered voter signatures by July 27th.

During the debate preceding the vote on Sunday, Sen. Bob Hasegawa, an AUS alum of the BA program, argued in favor of I-1000. “We can’t close our eyes to say there’s no racism, or there’s no institutionalized racism or institutionalized barriers because there are,” said Hasegawa. “And the statistics show up in the criminal justice system, the education system, from top to bottom.”

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AUNE | FACULTY PRESENTATION AT 2019 INTERNATIONAL FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATION WORLD FAMILY THERAPY CONGRESS

Applied Psychology faculty, Denzel Jones, PhD, recently presented at the 2019 International Family Therapy Association World Family Therapy Congress in Scotland. His study, Black Emerging Adults’ Experiences Of Ethnic-Racial Socialization Messages from Diverse Sources, focuses on “social-contextual influences (i.e. four unique types of ethnic-racial socialization messages from diverse ethnic-racial socialization agents) on Black ethnic-racial identity development among emerging adults over time. Results indicate that although parents, adult family members, and siblings were the most influential socialization agents during adolescence, they became less influential during emerging adulthood as peers gained more influence. Additionally, across all developmental periods, emerging adults reported the most prominent messages they received were egalitarian and racial pride messages and the least prominent messages they received were negative messages.”

Jones also co-presented a poster, Answering the Call of Duty: Violent Video Games and Family Therapy, focused on interactions between violent video games, aggression, differentiation, and felonious behavior. For more information go here.

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AUNE | DR. JIM GRUBER SERVES AS DELEGATE TO THE 4TH UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSEMBLY

This past March, long-time Environmental Studies Faculty and former Department Chair, Jim Gruber, served as a National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) Delegate to the fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. Other delegates included the Ministers of the Environment from one-hundred and seventy countries, other government representatives, and civic participants from business and academic sectors. UNEA is recognized as the world’s most important, highest level, international decision-making body on the environment.

“A key goal of the science delegates was to inform the international environmental decision-makers on the importance of integrating scientific knowledge into global environmental governance,” Gruber wrote in a reflection piece on the event. “We were also able to gain unique insights into UN processes and were able to explore opportunities to identify and engage in new partnerships and collaborations.” For Gruber, the assembly provided an opportunity to develop deeper working relationships with other NCSE senior scientists and explore potential international partnerships— such as with the Climate Adaptation Center at the University of Nairobi. For more go here.

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AUNE | PROFESSOR EMERITA ELECTED FELLOW OF APA DIV 35, PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN

Gargi Roysircar, Professor Emerita, AUNE Clinical Psychology Dept, has been elected Fellow of APA Div 35, Psychology of Women. Dr. Roysircar’s journey of APA Fellowship started 19 years ago, when she was made Fellow in Div 17 (Society for Counseling Psychology) in 1999, followed by Div 45 (Society for Race, Ethnicity, and Culture) in 2002, Div 56 (Trauma Psychology) in 2009, and Division 52 (International Psychology) in 2018. APA fellowship is awarded to psychologists for extraordinary research and practice achievements. Dr. Roysircar’s practice-based scholarship was made possible by the Antioch Multicultural Center for Research and Practice, which she served as founding director, and where many clinical psychology students, now alumni/ae, joined her in her work, both domestic and international. Dr. Roysircar is thankful to these students for their generous collaboration.

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AUS | SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY ATTEND AERA CONFERENCESchool of Education faculty members Caryn Park, Julia Daniels, and Rachel Oppenheim participated in the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Toronto in early April.

The three presented a paper together entitled, New words, old injustices: Discourses of equity in teacher education policy and praxis. Their paper explored the relationship between two state Standards Board equity initiatives and their on-the-ground enactment through our own university’s teacher education programs. They employed discourse analysis to reveal

the underlying ideological allegiances and complexities of the Standard Board’s discourse in relationship to these equity initiatives – and they considered the consequences of that discourse for their own work, discourse, and ideological commitments as teacher educators.

Read more here.

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AUNE | ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES’ STUDENTS AND FACULTY ATTEND GOLDMAN PRIZE CEREMONY

AUNE Environmental Studies graduate students, Ellie Leaning, Flick Monk, Shaylin Salas, and faculty member, Abigail Abrash Walton, recently attended the 30th annual Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony in Washington, DC. The Goldman Prize, known as the “Nobel Prize for the Environment,” goes annually to winners from six regions of the world in recognition of their outstanding grassroots environmental leadership and achievement.

The invitation-only ceremony is attended by more than 4,000 people each year and features short documentary films to provide an introduction to the

Prize recipients and their accomplishments. Antioch students were able to network with the six prize winners and with the DC environmental advocacy community, including AUNE ES MS alumna Kira Heeschen ‘18, who now serves as Education Coordinator at Earth Day Network.

Former Secretary of State and Senator John Kerry was the keynote, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai’s daughter was the emcee.

Learn more about The Goldman Prize here.

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AUS | PAUL DAVID’S RETIREMENT CELEBRATION IS COMING SOONJoin us for Paul David’s Retirement Celebration and final lecture on Friday, June 7th, 2019 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at AUS (new building address: 2400 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121).

Paul David has made monumental contributions to Antioch University and the field of Couple and Family Therapy (CFT) and this event is an excellent opportunity for the Antioch community to thank and celebrate him.

RSVPs for this celebration were due May 1, 2019. However, Antioch community members are encouraged to contact CFT Program Chair Jennifer Sampson (jsampson1@antioch.edu) if they would like to submit a message to Paul or if they have questions about the event.

For more information go here.

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AUM/AUO | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY MIDWEST AND ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY ONLINE CELEBRATE COMMENCEMENT

AUM and AUO congratulate the graduating class of 2019! This year we had the honor of watching 68 students from five-degree programs walk across the stage and receive their diplomas. Provost and CEO, Dr. Marian Glancy gave encouraging words to our students, and our audience, along with remarks from our Chancellor William Groves and Board of Governors speaker, Dr. Gene Tempel.

The audience was thrilled to hear from our elected student speakers: Sharon Miller, BA AUM, Coleen Goodson, BA AUO, Toniya Sunder Singh, MBA AUM, and Teri Bowshier, Education Programs AUM. Each student

shared a part of their journey, including honoring family who supported their education and celebrating the joy of learning and achieving as an Antiochian adult learner.

Following our student speakers, one of our graduates from BA in Human Services Administration honored us with a song. Sandra Rutledge Kitwana is a nationally known jazz vocalist who has performed in a variety of off-Broadway musical productions, and been the opening act for, and performed with, national acts such as Ray Charles, Chuck Loeb, Kim Waters, Peabo Bryson, The Ohio Players, and Fats Domino. The ceremony ended with the awarding of degrees and further honoring our graduates at a reception following the event.

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GSLC | ALUMNUS PRESENTS WORKSHOPGraduate School of Leadership and Change alumnus and Vice President of Strategic Planning and Development at The Safer Foundation Dr. Harry Alston will facilitate the workshop entitled: Entrenched Systems - Doubling Down on Inequity Reversing The Tide: How Inclusive Voices Can Build Equitable Employment Strategies at the 2019 Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Conference in Rotterdam.

Learn more about Dr. Alston’s extensive civic and community work here.

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AU | CANVA TRAININGUnleash your creativity! Do you want to learn to create flyers, social media memes, and other design projects? Attend a university-wide Canva training on Wednesday, June 26th.

Canva is a simple, easy design tool that everyone from beginners to experts can use. You can create graphics and documents fast!

The time and Zoom details will be sent out via email in the coming weeks.

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AUSB | DR. SALVADOR TREVINO PRESENTS KEYNOTE AT THE 24TH ANNUAL HISPANIC LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Dr. Salvador Trevino, PsyD Faculty, provided a special didactic, interactive seminar on multiple culturally informed Salvador Trevino strategies and interventions illustrating diagnostic skills and effective interventions essential to working with Latino Hispanic/Latino families and immigrants. Along with this workshop for mental health professionals, social workers and counselors, Dr. Trevino also presented the conference keynote address titled: The Latino Soul in Grief: Tales of Hope and Resilience.

“The needs are typically reflected in the problems that they’re having. Right now, for example, there is a very low participation of immigrants in public health,” Treviño said in an article in the morning journal. “And the resources are available, but why is it that Latinos are not going to take advantage of these services.”

The conference took place on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at the Lorain County Community College’s Spitzer Conference Center in Elyria, Ohio. This year marked the 24th Annual Hispanic Leadership Conference, which is hosted by the Coalition for Hispanic Issues & Progress (CHIP) in collaboration almost 60 local and state non-profit, Hispanic and Hispanic serving organizations. Over the years more than 14,000 individuals representing hundreds of organizations have attended this annual event.

For more information go here.

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AUNE | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY NEW ENGLAND CELEBRATES COMMENCEMENT

Friends, family, faculty, staff, and students gathered to celebrate the completion of degrees for the newest AUNE graduates. Approximately 130 of AUNE’s 240 graduates walked the stage at Keene Middle School’s auditorium Saturday morning, May 4th. Degrees were conferred to graduates from master’s and doctoral programs in disciplines including psychology, education, and environmental studies.

The ceremony began with opening and welcome remarks from AUNE Provost Shawn M. Fitzgerald, PhD and Antioch Chancellor William R. Groves, JD.

Keynote speaker Patricia A. Wand discussed the importance of service. Wand, an Antioch and Peace Corp alumna, made a career in education and libraries that incorporated service to the profession and community. She recently observed, “Service improves the life of the servant as much as it improves the lives of others. Service and learning go hand-in-hand.”

Wand asked the graduates to meditate on the meaning of service. “Volunteer service means we extend ourselves without financial compensation to improve the lives of others,” said Wand. “I invite you to join me in thinking about this definition of service in a little different way. Let’s extend this concept of service to include anything we do to improve the lives of others.”

Susan Hawes, professor of clinical psychology, and Joy Ackerman, a core faculty member in the environmental studies department, were honored during the ceremony. Both have taught at Antioch for 30 years and will retire in the coming months.

Read more about the Commencement Ceremony in an article in the Sentinel here.

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AULA | FACULTY O’DWYER PUBLISHED IN AMERICAN POETRY REVIEWCaley O’Dwyer, MA, MFT, MFA specializes in both Psychology and Creative Writing and is an Affiliate faculty member in the Division of Undergraduate Studies at AULA. He has two poems, Simply Simvastatin and 3-in-1, in the May/June 2019 issue of the American Poetry Review (APR). “(…) the issue arrived in my mailbox and I was quite proud to find my poems sandwiched between Tess Gallagher, Stanley Plumly, and David Trinidad among other great poets,” O’Dwyer said.

Publishing is often a time and labor-intensive process. O’Dwyer published his first book of poetry, Full Nova, in 2001. He has a second in-progress book of poems after the paintings of Mark Rothko, many of which have been published in various journals; and one was featured in the Mark Rothko retrospective at the Tate Modern Museum in London.

“I started writing a 3rd collection called American Proverb, which I’ve completed and which I’m currently sending out to publishers,” he said. “The poems published in this month’s issue of American Poetry Review come from a suite of about 30 poems (collectively called “Bikini Factory”) within the American Proverb manuscript.”

American Proverb is a darkly humorous exploration of American-media discourse and its influence on individuals. “I’m interested in strange things that happen to language when (my own and others’) “traditional” romantic inclinations in poetry clash or are spliced together with contemporary capitalist culture and the colloquial, technical, and other kinds of language it produces,” said O’Dwyer.

To view more of Caley’s work visit his website here.

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AULA | BRIDGE FACULTY PUBLISHED IN TRUTHOUTTim Malone, philosophy faculty in The Bridge Program at AULA wrote an incredible piece on the “hidden reactionary ideology” in Game of Thrones that as published in Truthout, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.

“It is reflecting back to us our crisis of identity, our need as a nation to define ourselves by who we are not, our ideological obsession with an inside and an outside, with borders. It is about walls that we build —

materially and symbolically, and who is on what side of them.” Read more here.

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AULA | USMA FACULTY CO-AUTHORS WHITE PAPERUrban Sustainability MA faculty Dr. Adonia Lugo is the co-author of a new white paper published by the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. The paper is titled Making Bicycling Equitable: Lessons from Sociocultural Research.

The white paper is a summary of research findings gathered through an interdisciplinary network of scholar-activists who have been in dialogue since 2012. The findings point toward concrete actions that urban planners can take to increase equity in the promotion of bicycle transportation.

Dr. Lugo is involved in a number of projects designed to expand support for mobility justice. She is an advisory board co-chair with People for Mobility Justice, a core organizer of The Untokening, and the manager of the Bike Equity Network email list.

Read the White Paper here.

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GSLC | ALUMNA AND PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY PUBLISHESGLSC alumna and Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Carlow University Dr. Harriet Schwartz recently published When I Said ‘White,’ I Meant ‘White:’ Why White Pittsburghers Should Care About Racism and What to Do About It in PUBLICSOURCE the nonprofit digital news outlet which delivers public-service reporting and analysis in the Pittsburgh region. Dr. Schwartz is also Lead Scholar for Education as Relational Practice, for the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute and is author of the recently-released book: Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education (Stylus Publishing, 2019). Learn more about her work here.

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AUSB | FACULTY ANDREA TATE PUBLISHES AND ENCOURAGES STUDENTS TO PUBLISH

Affiliate Faculty Andrea Tate received her BA in Liberal Studies from AUSB, her MFA in Creative Writing and a Post MFA in teaching Creative Writing from AULA. She recently added one more notch to her academic belt with an MA in English from Southern New Hampshire University. Since completing her degrees Andrea has advanced from adjunct to affiliate faculty and has been published in several magazines and journals including Hippocampus Literary Magazine, Huffington Post, Role/Reboot Magazine, Nailed, and most recently in Angeles Flight Literary West which gives an insight to her perseverance as an educator and a writer.

Andrea manages AUSB’s magazine Odyssey Online internship where she inspires undergraduates and alumni to publish social justice articles. Currently, Andrea is completing her collection of published essays- Fixated.

In teaching her most recent AUSB Undergraduate Capstone course, Andrea supported several activism campaigns and encouraged students Alison Prestige, Ashley Stevens, Ashley Benton, and Corrine Rink to publish their debut articles in Odyssey Online.

For more information go here.

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GLSC | ALUMNUS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CO-AUTHORSAlumnus and Associate Professor of Management for John Carroll University, Dr. Scott Allen has co-authored Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success (SAGE Publications, 2019). The publication provides a practical, engaging foundation and an easy-to-understand framework for individuals to purposefully design and apply leadership.

Learn more about Dr. Allen here.

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