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. COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS CHAMPIONS READING AS A CORNERSTONE OF DEMOCRACY

The Graduate School of Leadership and Change (GSLC) recognized 20 new PhD in Leadership and Change graduates during its 2019 commencement ceremony this summer. GSLC Provost Dr. Laurien TAlexandre initiated the event with a meaningful commencement speech that highlighted the power of reading as an act of engaged democratic citizenship and charged graduates and those in attendance to “go out and read” to learn, to grow personally and professionally, to expand horizons, to build empathy and in doing so, to strengthen democracy.

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2 | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY “Today as always in these Graduate This train of thought began when I read Bottom line, for Mann like Unamuno School Commencement speeches, I a brief quote from Spanish intellectual and others, there is nothing as costly as speak to issues that relate to Antioch’s and writer, Miguel de Unamuno, who ignorance. And, that’s why those who mission ‘to teach the knowledge and died in 1936 after living years under want to control what others think and skills to empower our graduates to house arrest and exile for using his do, try to control reading. Think about lead meaningful lives and advance public voice and writings to condemn that. Dictators know an illiterate crowd social, economic and environmental the Spanish dictatorships. Unamuno is the easiest to rule, thus the history of justice. Specifically the Graduate wrote “Fascism is cured by reading reading is replete with book bannings School’s purpose is to educate and and racism is cured by travel.” For him, and burnings. Perhaps the most train scholars to inquire into the fascism meant ignorance…and racism ingrained in our recent memories are thorny issues of our time ….. and to was the close-minded expression of fear. the bonfires across embolden their passion for creating So…imagine, reading just those ELEVEN World War II research, scholarship, and practice that words sent me on a four-month quest to Germany, contributes to the common good. So read everything I could about reading… let me share a few thoughts. from Socrates to Twitter and then to bring it home to us. Don’t worry, I’m not going to recount all 10 books and Join I usually tell graduates during this speech to go forth and be bold 16 articles I devoured on this 4-month engaged scholar-practitioners. To do journey…. because some of you – at powerful research, to write meaningful least those in the front row, want to get Us for books and blogs, to speak passionately hooded, and those in the audience want about the causes you value. I still want to celebrate and go home. to tell you that. But today I am going a Visit! to tell you to go out and read. No At Commencement, I typically go question, you’ve learned that habit in back to Horace Mann, Antioch’s We welcome you to join us your years in the program. A forced founding president – so let’s start for an upcoming campus habit I might add. You had over 20 there. Mann’s statue on the Boston required readings for every residency, State House lawn shows him holding a visit or webinar session! so ballpark 180-200 books, articles or book. That’s intentional. Mann believed chapters in preparation for your nine that education – tax-supported Learn more and residencies. Dozens of citations were public education - could ultimately register today! required for Learning Achievements; eliminate poverty, and unite a society and for the Critical Review of Research fragmented by class, race and gender. WWW.ANTIOCH.EDU/GSLC in particular, you looked at 100s of His revolutionary idea - one that STILL abstracts to cull down to 50 peer- seems contested today – was that a reviewed articles for a deep read. And high level of general education for your dissertations? Taking five random women and men, majority and minority dissertations published this year, you - was good for all. Mann believed that incinerating read a total of 350 books, 520 articles, reading books could inspire students the texts of Freud and 50 websites, blog, white papers. That’s and open minds. “A house without Einstein, the books of Marx and Lenin, A LOT of reading. I am also thrilled to books,” he wrote, “is like a room the novels of Steinbeck, Hemingway, tell you that YOUR dissertations WILL without windows.” It isn’t surprising and so many more. They say over a BE READ….and not just by your family Mann believed in the power of reading. million books were burned in those and closest friends. A large percent of He drew heavily from Transendentalists, years. I remember living in Franco’s our program’s dissertations have had like Ralph Waldo Emerson who thought Spain in the mid-1970s and my Spanish between 1,000 to 6,000 downloads; reading was at the core of engaged friends hid their banned books in my Imagine that, 6,000 interested readers democratic citizenship and a necessary apartment lest there be a raid on their worldwide contemplating your words. counterweight to blind allegiance and homes. I recall their palpable fear ignorance. I’m sure if they were alive crossing town with their satchel full of books bringing them to my ‘safe’ So why am I talking about reading today both would argue that reading lodging, after all, I was a foreigner, I today? As many of you know….I am an was a necessary counterweight to was an American. I have never been avid reader of historical novels, and the lies that currently fill our public afraid of what I read. current events, and critical theory…. discourse. Theirs was a vision of human But that is not the reason. It is because potential tied to learning how to read – reading is essential for a healthy words and the world differently, a way In his fabulous History of Reading, democracy. to develop the imaginative capacity to Alberto Manguel recounted how during put oneself in the place of others and his high school years, the Argentine to develop empathy and rise above military government censored and self-interest.

Graduate School of Leadership and Change | 3 banned books. It became dangerous for burning LBGTQ books from the to be seen in cafes or streets with the public library live on Facebook. poems of Pablo Neruda or books by Now Steinbeck. The very fact of being in Yes, these are one-offs but they are possession of a book was sufficient frightening reminders of what can Accepting grounds for imprisonment or worse. happen to democracies. So what is the Let’s look in our own country. state of reading these days? Reading is Applications at risk, whether from reader apathy or We aren’t immune to efforts to from zealots’ zeal. The US ranks # 22nd for the PhD deny the freedom to read to others. of all countries in terms of the average Slave owners were concerned that reading hours per week. India and and MLP! a “literate black population” might Thailand top with about 10 hours. The find dangerous ideas in books and if US sits at less than 3.5 hours a week. Application review will slaves could read the Bible, then they The US ranks as only the 7th most continue throughout the could also read abolitionists’ texts literate country in the world - quantified and be inspired by notions of revolt by # of libraries, newspapers, years of spring until the cohorts in and possibilities of freedom. Some schooling, computer availability and both programs are filled. states still had laws up to the mid- so forth. And, according to National 1800s that forbade all blacks, whether Endowment of the Arts recent report, slaves or free men (Iet alone women) less than half of all US adults read even For more information contact to be taught to read. More recently, one book a year if it isn’t for work or [email protected] literacy tests were embedded in voter school in 2017. If you believe reading registration processes throughout is an essential practice of engaged the Jim Crow South to deny African democratic citizenship, these trends Americans the right to vote; And are disheartening at best and are bilingual ballots weren’t commonly deeply frightening at worst—it should available until the mid 1970s making be applauded and encouraged. English-only ballots a de facto literacy test for Spanish-speaking citizens. The access created by technology Imagine –the right to vote depended makes it all the more imperative to on the right to read. During the teach people HOW to read, which 1950's Cold War, the American Library Emerson said was the second hardest Association felt compelled to issue task; the first was to teach people HOW a public statement ‘defending the to think. The fact is– no matter where GSLC freedom to read’ and fought proposals or when by what device in what format to burn textbooks perceived as - READ WE MUST. Despite the ineffective Scholarship insufficiently patriotic. banning and showcase bonfires, ideas don’t burn and books rise again. They Funds Make It’s not over. Between 2000-2010, come back even more powerfully as the Association received over survivors. After all, we’re still reading A Difference! 5,000 reports of challenges Freud, we’re still debating Marx, we’re to that freedom, efforts still getting lost in the novels of We are committed to raising to remove, restrict or ban Steinbeck and Morrison, and dreaming books. The list of the most with the poems of Neruda and Angelou. awareness and support for our GSLC challenged books in the US Authors never vanish and ideas don’t scholarship funds that directly benefit invariably includes Twain, disappear. A German foundation has the lives and work of students. Please Huxley, Salinger, Steinbeck, plans to create a Library of Burned consider directing your charitable and a disproportionate number Books, to bring together in one place of black writers, such as Maya all of the titles that went up in flames giving towards a gift that will help Angelou, Toni Morrison, Richard and disappeared from public life. Now, win victories for humanity! Wright. Within the past several those thousands of authors will come years, we’ve witnessed Koran back home again. And Argentinian ALUMNI.ANTIOCH.EDU/GIVENOW burnings in Florida. A California-based artist Marta Minjuin used 100,000 nationalist group wanted to burn all Nazi-prohibited books to construct a the books of “liberal, democratic Parthenon of Books, an ancient Greek values,” which ironically, it felt were symbol of democracy, on the site of contributing to the decline of our the 1930’s German book burnings. country! And just last year, the Iowa She actually first constructed the director of a “pro family” group called statue on the streets of Buenos Aires

4 | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY using 25,000 books taken from cellars Read so that your bold research, where they had been locked up by the powerful voice, and compelling Argentine military in the mid1970s. practice will be well-informed. But more. As Emerson, Mann, Unamuno, So, to my theme today - Reading is a Manguel and Nafasi remind us, a well- form of action. Don’t take it for granted. read society recognizes demagoguery First, one reads to educate oneself. As and will reject it. As a citizen of a a form of personal and professional democracy in turmoil, development, reading really does matter. Not that these are my heroes, I encourage you to but Warren Buffet says he reads 500 pages a day, Mark Cuban reads 3 hours a day, and Bill Gates reads 50 books a Read without walls or borders. year. For them, reading is a necessary Read to build bridges of understanding. precondition of their leadership roles. Read to get to know the other. But let’s go to reading as an act of engaged democratic citizenship, an Read about topics you don’t know much about. act of empathy building, knowledge Read about people who don’t look like you or live like you. expanding. I was so happy to learn Read about places you’ve never been. on this quest of mine that discussion groups in local bookstores across the Read about places you want to go. country are resurging. Book clubs – Read as if our democracy depends upon it. on site and on line – are popping up It does.” everywhere. And libraries, seemingly threatened a decade ago, today have become digital hubs as well as Dr. Laurien Alexandre physical spaces to gather, learn, work GSLC Provost and connect. Iranian author Azar Nafasi, famous for Reading Lolita in Tehran, reminds us that the reader, in selecting what to read, chooses to be her own person and can take individual Avidan, I. 2006, May 15). Library of Burned Books to Recall Nazi Barbarism. https://www.dw.com/ en/library-of-burned-books-to-recall-nazi-barbarism/a-2018048-0 initiative to go against the dictates of Boatright, M. & Faust, M. (2013). Emerson, Reading and Democracy: Reading as Engaged Democratic family, church or state. She argues that Citizenship. Democracy & Education, Vol. 21, No 1. Pp. 1 - believing in the Constitution’s “We the Cheng, A. (2019, June 24). Small Bookstores Thrive By Expanding Beyond Books. New York Times, B6. People,” means defending the right to Fishburn, M. (2008). Burning Books. Palgrave, Macmillan; NY, NY. free thought and imagination, and that that right can only be guaranteed by Furedi, F. (2015). The Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter. London, UK: Bloomsbury. the “active participation of every one Gibbon, P. (2002, May 29). A Hero of Education. Education Week. www.edweel/org/ew/ articles/2002/05/29/38gibbons.h21 of us, citizen readers.” Nafasi dreams of creating a Republic of the Imagination, Manguel, A. (1996). A History of Reading. Penguin Books:NY, NY. (2nd Edition). as a “Nation of readers, large and Manning, M.G. (2014). When Books Went to War. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: NY, NY. small, old and young, rich and poor, Mikics, D. (2013). Slow Reading in a Hurried Age. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: of all colors and backgrounds, united Cambridge, MA. by the shared sense that books Milliot, J. (2018, September 13). NEA Study Finds Small Dip in Adult Reading. https://www. publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/77979-nea-study- matter, that they open up a window finds-small-dip-in-adult-reading.html into a more meaningful life, that they Nafisi, A. (2014). The Republic of Imagination: A Life in Books. New York, NY: Penguin Books. enable us to tolerate complexity and Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America. Research Division Report #48. National nuance and to empathize with people Endowment for the Arts: Washington DC. whose lives and conditions are utterly Levin, M. Reading Habits of the Most Successful Leadership That Can Change Your Life Too. (2017 different from our own.” August). https://www.inc.com/marissa-levin/reading-habits-of-the-most-successful-leaders-that. html So let me conclude by saying, as your Rovira, J. (ed). (2019). Reading as Democracy in Crisis. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group: Lanham, Maryland. PhD Director, I want to encourage Ulin, D. (2010). The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time. Seattle, WA: you to go read – to be proactive and Sasquatch Books. irreverent now that you no longer have Wolk, M. (2019, June 23). Libraries Evolve Beyond Books. Los Angeles Times. F1. residencies, and learning achievements, and dissertations. Read for the joy of Speech 2019 Commencement for References World Reading Habit (28 Dec 2018) https://geediting.com/world-reading-habits-2018/ it. Read for professional development.

Graduate School of Leadership and Change | 5 Antioch University Mission

Antioch University provides learner-centered education to empower students with the knowledge and skills to lead meaningful lives and to advance social, economic, and environmental justice. Dr. Jon Wergin

To learn more about our Set to Retire multi-campus system visit:

ANTIOCH.EDU As many of you know, this is Dr. Jon Wergin’s last full time year as Professor of Education Studies in the Graduate School of Leadership and Change as he slowly but surely heads into retirement. Back in 2003, Jon simply couldn’t resist the opportunity Ato be part of the founding of this appealing but untested experiment in graduate innovation and he left the comfort of his hard-earned, tenured full professorship at Virginia Commonwealth University after 30 years to join Antioch and build the PhD in Leadership and Change.

It is not an overstatement to say that Jon’s decades long experience, wisdom and expertise have been absolutely It is not an overstatement fundamental to the design and success of our program. His to say that Jon’s decades understanding of adult learning underpins many essential curriculum design elements. His teaching and advising have long experience, wisdom and helped hundreds of students successfully achieve their PhD expertise have been absolutely dream. He has evaluated every Learning Achievement over these past years. And to date, Jon has chaired over 50 dissertations fundamental to the design and and served on well over 30 committees. As a member of the success of our program. GSLC faculty, he has repeatedly demonstrated his unwavering commitment to academic quality and assessment, and his belief in the power of collaboration and teamwork.

As part of Antioch University as a whole, Jon has always brought wise counsel to faculty deliberations and has been instrumental in efforts to improve the professionalization and quality of work life for all. He has led accreditation efforts, assessment efforts, and faculty governance activities. In addition to his many contributions to Antioch University, Jon is also a well-recognized public intellectual creating a remarkable record of research and scholarship including being the author or co-author of 18 books and monographs, 13 book chapters, 64 articles, and 100s of conferences and addresses to colleges and universities across the country. In his latest book, Deep Learning in a Disorienting World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Jon expresses his appreciation to the Antioch University alumni, students, staff and faculty who contributed in untold ways to his thinking on the topic.

Dr. Jon Wergin will be joining GSLC for Commencement this summer. Please mark your calendar for August 1, 2020 and email Les Creighton ([email protected]) if you are able to join us!

6 | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY Students, Alumni, and Faculty Central in The Graduate School of Learning Community Leadership Enhancement and Change supports the fight Each year the Graduate School of Leadership and Change (GSLC) conducts a against global warming study of where our applicants hear about the program. We’ve just concluded this year’s effort and its clear that faculty, students, and alumni are most central by offsetting the climate to spreading the word of GCLS’s impactful scholarship and practitioner work. For that we say THANK YOU! We couldn’t be more honored and proud of our impact of all work-related learning community’s ambassadors. air travel of program faculty and staff through In 2019-20, our applicants heard about us from: annual donations that support projects involving renewable energy, energy efficiency, and reforestation. 46% 33% 8% WORD OF INTERNET LEADERSHIP MOUTH (combined search ORGANIZATION and social media) (Center for Creative Leadership and International Leadership Association specifically)

Exciting happenings abound throughout Around Antioch University! Learn more all about the Antioch wonderful news from our campuses and program University here, ANTIOCH.EDU/AU-NEWS/

Graduate School of Leadership and Change | 7 GSLC Travels to Cuba!

PhD in Leadership and Change faculty, students, and alumni gathered together Entrepreneurship in Cuba is with Antioch University friends this past spring to explore Cuba. Their week-long the most unique of its kind. itinerary was focused on leadership and change in major sectors of Cuban life, Communities have come including culture, the economy, government, education, and healthcare. together where everyone contributes a different skill in order to help survive, it is no longer the survival of the fittest but the survival of the kindest and most collaborative...This was truly a life changing experience.”

GSLC STUDENT, KADER GUMUS

GSLC Connections Holding Strong

A few years ago, when Jane Feinberg (C-14) read Disappearing Acts (MIT Press, 2001) by Joyce Fletcher for a GSLC residency, it brought her back to a body of work she had followed for many years: Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT). The theory, first developed in the 1970s by feminist psychiatrists and psychologists, turned the field upside down by asserting that autonomy and separation, long seen as the marks of human maturity, did not accurately represent women’s—or men’s—experience in the world. Instead, the model proposed that we grow in relationship, that relationships are a central human necessity, and that disconnections are the source of psychological problems. At another residency, Jane met Dr. Harriet Schwartz (Cohort 5) who was a guest professor in Elizabeth Holloway’s seminar on grounded theory. Harriet was, at the time, also a lead scholar at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at Wellesley College, the organization formed in honor of the psychiatrist whose ideas sparked RCT. Jane and Harriet kept in touch, and Harriet invited Jane to attend a gathering of RCT adherents. There, Jane learned that the RCT founders had just created a new 501(c)(3) to grow both the research and practice elements of the work. For the last two years, Jane has been working with the founding scholars to launch the International Center for Growth in Connection (ICGC). In October 2019, Jane and Harriet both attended and presented at a conference in Chicago sponsored by ICGC. Jane’s dissertation (in progress) draws heavily on RCT in the study of White Teachers and Students of Color.

Through her company, Full Frame Communications, Jane also continues to work with school districts to help them better serve students with diverse learning assets and needs through the Essex County Learning Community, a grant-funded project that she leads in Massachusetts. Jane is also in the early stages of collaborating with partners on a film and national campaign about human variability called the Future of Normal.

8 | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY International Leadership Association in Ottawa, Canada

This past October leadership scholars and professionals from around the world gathered in Ottawa, Canada at the Interational Leadership Association’s (ILA) 21st Annual Global conference to network, to explore new thinking on leadership, and to share perspectives on courageous leadership. Antioch University’s PhD in Leadership and Change program again had a notable presence at this occasion with a footprint of 23 participants including four faculty members, six students and 13 alumni who attended and presented 16 sessions. Presentations included faculty and student symposia, faculty and alumni co-led panel discussions, faculty and student co-led paper presentations, a student roundtable, and poster presentations. GSLC also sponsored and hosted a program reception that was attended by more than 60 participants. The complete contingent of PhD faculty, students and alumni present at the conference served as hosts for the reception and ambassadors for the program.

In addition to conference activities, Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change held a mini-residency for PhD in Leadership and Change (PhDLC) students with gatherings and events as well as a debrief and reflection led by faculty members Drs. Lize Booysen, Elizabeth Holloway, and Jon Wergin. This reflection ended with a cocktail event and included both Antioch PhD students as well as alumni.

The many ways in which the ILA and Antioch’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change integrates is evident from the reflections of the GSLC faculty that were in attendance this year:

As the PhDLC liaison person and outgoing ILA fellow, I had a dual ILA is a critical formative experience for our graduate students. It affords purpose at this past ILA Conference, firstly to socialize our GSLC them the opportunity to engage in a scholar-practitioner community students into the academy, and help them build their conference that is small enough to aspire to leadership positions and to have the attendance and presentation agility, and secondly to bolster the opportunity to engage in dialogue around their own work. Our Antioch synergies between Antioch’s amazing PhD Leadership and Change students carry a badge of pride knowing that our program was a part of program, and alumni and the welcoming ILA community.” the founding of the organization and that we remain a visible force.”

DR LIZE BOOYSEN DR. ELIZABETH HOLLOWAY

The ILA conference offers a great platform for our students, faculty With so many students and alumni participating, the ILA is a and alumni to connect with each other and the larger international professional conference unlike any other in my experience. The one in community. These connections and the conference space allow Ottawa this year was no exception: it seemed as if Antiochians were thoughtful engagement around advancing values-driven leadership everywhere, and they are our program's best ambassadors.” thinking aimed at improving human conditions.” DR. JON WERGIN DR. AQEEL TRIMIZI

We hope to see you all at the 22nd Annual Global Conference in San Francisco, California, November 2020. The theme of next year’s ILA Conference is Leading at the Edge. Of course, leading at the edge is something the GSLC, its students and alumni are known for in their work!! Please watch out for the Call for Papers, which should come out soon, and remember the closing date for ILA conference presentation submissions is usually around the first week in February!

Contact Lize Booysen ([email protected]) if you have any questions or need more information.

Graduate School of Leadership and Change | 9 Student and Alumni Updates

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Dr. Luane Davis Haggerty directed Dr. Susie Erenrich is set Dr. Wayne Curtis one of the first known productions of to publish her latest book has co-authored his August Wilson's Fences to be performed this coming spring. The newest book entitled, simultaneously in spoken English and in book entitled, The Cost Knowledge Economies American Sign Language. The Kennedy of Freedom: Voicing a and Knowledge Work, Center College Theater Festival awarded Movement after Kent Working Methods for the show Excellence in Ensemble State 1970 (The Kent State University Knowledge Management (Emerald Performance for all cast members. Luane Press, 2020) is a multi-genre collection Group Pub Ltd, 2019). This practical additionally directed the musical Man of describing the May 4, 1970, shootings at real-world focused book, defines and La Mancha presented by the American Kent State University, the aftermath, and discusses knowledge work resulting in a Sign Language (ASL) performance group the impact on wider calls for peace and guide for corporate leaders and managers, Dangerous Signs and was nominated by justice. Learn more about the publication knowledge managers, workforce the Rochester City Newspaper as one of here. professionals, policy makers, labor four productions in the category of Best economists, human capital researchers, Local Production. Dr. Lynn Olsen was and educators. It helps diverse audiences recently elected understand the implications of this Members of Cohort 2 Chair of the Adjunct transformation and helps them navigate Drs. Shana Hormann Faculty Council (AFC) this new economy. Wayne has worked and Mark Light at the University in the financial services and economic reconnect in Seattle, of St. Thomas. The development arenas in New York, Washington. AFC is chartered to serve Philadelphia and Washington, DC for over 1,180 adjunct faculty, and includes 40 years. Learn more about his extensive

representatives from all the university’s work here. colleges and schools and works with the University administration and Vice- COHORT 3 Provost of Academic Affairs on issues of mutual interest. President of Rhoda COHORT 8 Weiss Consulting Dr. Laura Santana Group, Inc., Dr. Rhoda is expanding her Dr. Kate O’Neill Weiss is the recipient global leadership is working at the of The Public Relations development American University Society of America’s (PRSA) 2019 Gold outreach in two of Afghanistan in Kabul Anvil Award. This award is the highest recent collaborations as an Associate Professor individual honor recognizing lifetime with The Center for of Management. Learn more about her achievement from PRSA, the nation’s Creative Leadership (CCL). Laura’s global work here. leading professional organization work recently has included visits to the serving the communications community Gothenburg Camp X Innovation Labs, with 30,000 members. Those pictured the Mass Transit Headquarters of Brazil, presenting the award are (from left) and culminated with a daylong visit Debra Peterson, PRSA National Chair; to Hangzhao, China to challenge these COHORT 9 Dr. Rhoda Weiss, Gold Anvil Lifetime leaders to envision a future different from Dr. Marcia Tate Achievement recipient; and Brigadier patterns of the past. Learn more about Arunga has been General Edward Thomas, United States Laura and her work here. Air Force, Director of Public Affairs, appointed Academic Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Dean of Evergreen the Pentagon, Washington, DC. Learn State College’s Tacoma more about Rhoda, the award, and her campus. This campus offers a liberal work here. arts bachelor’s completion program and

10 | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY houses two masters programs in public of Brain Corp, a San Diego based University as Dean of Academic Services. administration and education. In this artificial intelligence company creating In this additional position LaTonya will new role, Marcia will oversee curriculum, transformative core technology for lead coordination for many departments faculty planning, student activities, and the robotics industry. In this new role, including The Office of the Registrar, First general operations. Moudy will be responsible for driving the Year Seminars, English for Academics strategic roadmap and growth plans for (International students), Academic the company’s technology portfolio. Learn Advising, The Academic Resource Center, more about his extensive work here. and Academic Coaching. Additionally, LaTonya has recently contributed Chicken COHORT 10 Dr. Mark Martin has been named Deputy Soup for the Soul: Think Positive, Live Director for the Office of Minority Health Happy: 101 Stories about Creating Your Dr. Frowsa' Booker- at the Maryland Department of Health. Best Life (Chicken Soup for the Soul, Drew is one of 30 2019) and The Total Woman (Professional honorees that has Woman Publishing, 2019). Learn more been recognized by The about her work directly here. Dallas Business Journal with a 2019 Women in Business Award. COHORT 12 Dr. Dani Chesson and Dr. Mitch Kusy Learn more about Dr. Booker-Drew, her have had their co-authored article entitled Dr. Jessica Litwak recently published work, and this award here. “Design Thinker Profile: Capabilities for “Audience Engagement in Theatre for Driving Change in Healthcare” accepted Social Change” in The Engaged Scholar for publication in the Journal of Medical Journal. Additionally, Jessica just Practice Management (November- returned from London where her play My December, 2019). Based on Dani’s COHORT 11 Heart is in the East was produced. Finally, dissertation, Creating and Validating she has been commissioned to write a play a Scale for Measuring Design Thinking Dr. Amy Climer about the California suffrage movement Capabilities in Individuals, Dani and presented Leading for the centennial celebration of women's Mitch—as Dani’s chair—collaborated Deliberate Creative right to vote in 2020. Learn more about on how understanding design thinker Teams at the Southern Jessica here. Oregon University Creativity capabilities is an innovative and effective Conference. Amy shared her Deliberate Dr. Mike Valentine way for healthcare leaders to improve the Creative Team Scale which measures has published healthcare industry benchmark: patient three elements teams need in order to be “Contextual Coaching: safety and satisfaction. The Journal of creative together. Additionally, Amy and Leveraging Context Medical Practice Management is one of fellow cohort member Dr. Tami France for Alignment in the most respected journals for healthcare recently collaborated on a leadership the System” which is leaders in practice management. Dani development program at Mayo Clinic. Dr. featured in Philosophy of Coaching: is an organizational change consultant France designed a year-long program for An International Journal. This paper residing in Auckland, New Zealand. a group of Mayo Clinic's leaders. As part examines the perceived presence of of the program, Dr. Climer led a full-day contextual factors in an organization, training called The Deliberate Creative considers how coaches incorporate them Leader: How to Innovate on Demand. in practice, and suggests a framework to COHORT 14 enhance coaching outcomes. Access the Leadership Development Practitioner, full article here. Vice President of the Board of Directors Executive Coach, and Human Resource for Soul 2 Soul Sisters, Tawana Davis Professional Dr. Tami France has is the co-editor of the new publication co-authored, “The Importance of a entitled Go Tell Empowering Stories of Radiologist-Administrator Partnership to Women Overcoming Adversities: A Guide Future Healthcare” in The Journal of the COHORT 13 to Women's Ministry (Barnes and Noble American College of Radiology. Founder of Branham Press, 2019). The book includes essays Dr. Moudy Elbayadi Consulting and that are poignant stories of empowerment has been selected University Registrar as women share how they worked through as Senior Vice for DePauw University adversities to choose an abundant life. President, Product Dr. LaTonya Branham Read more about the book here. and Technology has assumed an added role within the

Graduate School of Leadership and Change | 11 Yolandé Devoe has been awarded The Audre Lorde Scholarship from ZAMI NOBLA. COHORT 18 Awards are designed Shiphrah Mutungi Akandiinda has been to recognize out (out is defined as an awarded a 2019-20 International Fellowship acknowledgement of lesbian identify by The American Association of University to self, and to family, friends, and Women (AAUW) in pursuit of her doctoral community) black lesbians and lesbians of studies. The AAUW supports women leading color making significant contributions to innovative community projects that impact their communities. Learn more about the on women and girls globally. Shiphrah has been working in South award here. Sudan as a Programme Director for Morning Star, a trauma awareness initiative aimed at addressing the impact of trauma resulting from decades of conflict. She has extensive experience and skills in peace building, trauma programming, and gender innovations. COHORT 16

Kelly Cerialo was recently named Director of the Learning Fellow. The Ivy Sackey has been appointed to the Global Center for Action Learning Board of Directors of the Institute of Rural Resilience at Paul Smith's College Fellowship is the Directors for Ghana (IoD). The goal of where she is coordinating sustainability flagship program the initiative is to promote corporate initiatives in rural communities that of the foundation, governance in Ghana. Learn more about focus on the United Nation’s seventeen bringing together the IoD here. Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. thoughtful community Climate Action, Responsible Production builders with ideas and resources from LaTanya White, an and Consumption, etc.). the Berrett-Koehler network, to create educator and advocate a space for deep personal growth and for entrepreneurs Kader Gumus has collective learning. Over the next eight of color, delivered a been appointed months, Renee will explore the linkage compelling talk on the as Fairfax County between positive role modeling of TEDx Tallahassee stage Council’s Immigrant philanthropy, activism, and authentic in November. Her talk, Community leadership of Black women with the The Audacity of Privilege, was largely Representative to grassroots giving of time, talent, and shaped by her experiences, research, and end domestic violence. treasure of young Black millennial women enlightenment about power and privilege Additionally, Kader recently participated to make greater impact in the global through our impactful curriculum in the in The Fancy Women's Bicycle Tour village. Learn more about the fellowship GSLC. Learn more about LaTanya, her which brings together women worldwide here! research interests, and her talk here. to bring awareness of the fact that many girls and women around the world feel Katie Lampley has too intimidated to ride a bike because been promoted to of road bullying, harassment, lack of Assistant Provost knowledge on how to ride a bike or having for Diversity and COHORT 19 no resources to own a bike. Learn more Inclusion at Bentley Sara Barry has about the organization here. University. This been named Chief new role recognizes the Operating Officer University’s strategic focus on diversity for OneCare Vermont, and inclusion as an enabling feature of an accountable care future success. In this new role Katie will organization focused on improving COHORT 17 lead campus-wide efforts to achieve their population health through care delivery goals of inclusive excellence. Renee Bradford has been selected as a transformation and payment reforms. new Barrett-Koehler Foundation Action Sara brings decades of experience

12 | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY improving healthcare delivery systems of Female Expatriates: Finding Success and health outcomes. In this new role she through Agility, Resilience, and Essential will oversee operations, facilitate strategy, Relationships” featured in Cross Cultural planning, resource alignment, and & Strategic Management (Emerald stakeholder communications. Learn more Publishing Limited, 2019) The piece Alumni about her impactful work here. explores the relationships, resources, and characteristics that support female Lifelong Shelley Henderson has contributed to expatriate success, with a specific focus the new publication entitled, Queen on the role of mentor/coach relationships. Learning Mothers: Articulating the Spirit of Black This research offers evidence that Women Teacher-Leaders (Information resiliency-based characteristics must Continues Age Publishing, 2019). This publication be cultivated and developed to support examines contexts where Black women expatriate cross-cultural success. Learn PhD in Leadership and Change function as Queen Mothers and contests more about findings here. alumni continue to participate the trivialization of their manifold in virtual workshops specifically contributions. Learn more about the Dr. Mitch Kusy’s latest book, Why I Don’t designed to support their continued book here. Work Here Anymore: A Leader’s Guide to growth after graduation. The latest Offset the Financial and Emotional Costs offering, Post-Doctoral Writing: Brook McGennis was promoted to of Toxic Employees (Productivity Press, Public Intellectual Publishing After Executive Director of Operations for the 2017), has been produced as an audiobook Graduation, took place January state of Illinois for within Hospital Sisters now reaching an even wider audience. 2020. The workshop provided Health Systems (HSHS) Medical Group. Learn more about Mitch here. a tour through the publishing Launched in 2008, HSHS Medical Group landscape of the post-newspaper is a critical component of the HSHS PhD in Leadership and Change (PhDLC) world, where there are many options Care Integration strategy, which focuses faculty affiliate Dr. Laura Morgan for publishing and influencing the on bringing physicians, technology and Roberts recently co-edited Race, Work cultural conversation. Throughout patients together to improve the overall and Leadership: New Perspectives on the session alumni learned when health of our communities. the Black Experience (Harvard Business and where to publish an opinion Review Press, 2019). The new book piece online and how to query

features research by GSLC core faculty and pitch ideas. This workshop Dr. Elizabeth Holloway, PhDLC alumna provided an opportunity for alumni Dr. Muriel Shockley, and PhDLC student COHORT 1 - to identify a wide range of media Tawana Davis. Learn more about the book and styles in order to publish within HEALTHCARE here. individual disciplines and to harness key takeaways from dissertations Jeff Williams Dr. Aqeel Tirmizi recently published and first translate, then publish presented the keynote "Leading Responsibly: Relevance of them for a mainstream audience. address at the Annual the Major Leadership Theories in the Conference of the Southern Chapter Caribbean Context" in the Journal of of the Medical Library Association in Leadership, Accountability, and Ethics. Savannah, Georgia. The address entitled, The Power of the Disorienting Dilemma, Dr. Jon Wergin’s examined the way in which library users newest publication, struggle to understand librarians' new Deep Learning roles until they work closely with a in a Disorienting librarian in a meaningful way. World (Cambridge Send Us Your University Press, 2019) is slated for Suggestions release in the United Alumni engagement opportunities for the Kingdom and Europe December remainder of 2020 are in development and FACULTY 2019 and in the United States we'd love to hear from YOU! We want to early 2020. Learn more about the offer programming of most interest to you GSLC Faculty members Drs. Carol Baron book here. ¢ and your professional development. and Lize Booysen and PhDLC alumna Dr. Tami France (Cohort 11) have co-authored Please reach out to Les Creighton “Cross-cultural Professional Experiences ( [email protected] ) to share your topics you'd find value you in over the coming months!

Graduate School of Leadership and Change | 13 Cohort 19 Joins GSLC

This past July we proudly welcomed Cohort 19 to our PhD in Leadership and Change program. We are pleased to share details of these dynamic new students and their origins! AGE

35% [ 9 ] in 30s

GENDER RACE | ETHNICITY 38% [ 10 ] in 40s

35% [ 9 ] PoC with 78% [ 7 ] being 19% [ 5 ] in 50s Black/African-American

4% [ 1 ] in 60s 65% [ 17 ] 73% 27% Caucasian/White [ 19 ] [ 7 ] [ 1 ] unknown Women Men 4%

1 WASHINGTON GEOGRAPHY VERMONT 2

NEW YORK 1 2

MASSACHUSETTS PENNSYLVANIA 1 NEBRASKA 1 2 ILLINOIS 2 OHIO 2 1 NEW JERSEY 3 COLORADO 1 1 WASHINGTON, D.C.

INDIANA 2 VIRGINIA

INTERNATIONALLY LOCATED

1 TEXAS 1 from Ghana and 1 from 2 South Africa FLORIDA

14 | ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY Alumni Library Pilot Success New Fund Close to 100 PhD in Leadership and Change alumni have registered to utilize Antioch University’s library since the launch of this pilot initiative to offer library services for Student to our graduates. In the spirit of our continued commitment to life-long learning and in stewardship of our engagement with alumni it's with great excitement that Support! we share this alumni library access has been extended! In addition to our ongoing professional webinars, virtual book club sessions, nationwide workshops, symposiums Antioch University’s Graduate School and reunions we couldn't be more proud to add this access to our bevy of graduate of Leadership and Change (GSLC) is benefits. If you are an alumni member and would like access please be in touch with pleased to announce the founding Leslee Creighton ([email protected]). of a new 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. Scholarship Renamed to Mike Valentine to honor the legacy of his father, James C. Valentine. Honor Founders As a New York City firefighter and longtime member of the Shriners, Over the next several years a series of founding faculty members are scheduled he believed deeply in lifting up to retire. Dr. Jon Wergin is slated for 2020 and Dr. Elizabeth Holloway is set for the his community by reaching out to following year. Given their enormous contributions to the program we wanted to troubled youth and mentoring them. provide a route for alumni and friends to channel their gratitude and recognize His actions and service to those in these founding faculty's contributions to Antioch and to the program. Thus with the need exemplify the spirit of making a University Chancellor's approval and Dr. Al Guskin's full support, we have very recently difference one person at a time and renamed the Alan E. Guskin Scholars' Fund to the Founders' Scholarship Fund. 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 Annual support costs incurred by PhDLC students conducting approved Alumni action research dissertations with underserved populations. Two Reunion research grants of up to $1,000 each are available each academic year. Connections “Underserved populations” refers to communities within the United This past August PhD in Leadership and States or abroad that suffer from Change alumni gathered to reconnect, poverty and disparities in education, engage in professional development, employment, health and/or other and network at the annual alumni indicators of community wellbeing. reunion held in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Learn more about this and all of As in past years, reunion activities were GSLC’s scholarship funds here. coupled with GSLC’s commencement ceremonies, a faculty-led workshop, and an evening reception. This year Dr. Donna Ladkin faciliated a workshop Exploding the ‘Powerful Leader’ Myth: Why Even the Most Senior Person in the Room Can’t Always Make Change Happen. Alumni had a meaningful day as always and we look forward to welcoming everyone back next year. Please save the date of August 1, 2020 and stay tuned for details!

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