Associate, Adjunct and Affiliate Faculty, Liberal Studies

Cori Adler, B.A., Wesleyan University; M.F.A. University of Colorado; M.A., Ph.D. University of Washington; adjunct faculty, liberal studies.  Cori Adler is a poet and a scholar of American Ethnic Literature, Feminist Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Studies. She has taught at the University of Colorado and the University of Washington and served on the faculty at Shoreline Community College.  She has published numerous poems in literary journals and one chapbook, The Toothed World; her dissertation is titled, Screening the Dream: Hollywood in the Era of “Family Values.”

Denise Bill, B.A., Seattle Pacific University; M.A., Azusa Pacific University; Ed.D. Candidate, University of Washington; adjunct faculty, liberal studies.  Denise Bill has been a teacher, staff development trainer, and administrator in the public education system for 20 years. Bill was the Superintendent of the Muckleshoot Tribal School for two years and currently manages a federal technology grant at the Muckleshoot Tribal College. Bill's area of focus is working with Native American students, both in the public school system and now at the Muckleshoot Tribal College. 

Jeff Birdsall, B.S., Lesley University/Audubon Expedition Institute; M.A., Naropa University; associate faculty, liberal studies. Jeff Birdsall has extensive experience in leadership development programs and has been facilitating groups, teaching, and directing national service and environmental education programs over the past twenty years. He leads trainings for national service programs and non-profits throughout the country and also serves as an adjunct instructor in Brown University’s Leadership Institute. Birdsall is passionate about facilitating students’ personal, intellectual and spiritual development in their journeys to become effective, caring and responsible leaders in their social and ecological communities.

LueRachelle Brim-Atkins, B.A., The University of Texas at Austin; M.A. State University of New York at Brockport; M.A., University of Santa Monica; adjunct faculty, liberal studies.  LueRachelle Brim-Atkins is Founder and Principal Consultant of Brim-Donahoe & Associates, a firm that focuses on Organization Development and training in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Since 1988, she has designed customized, comprehensive training and education programs that focus on cultural competence, diversity, social change, leadership and management. She is particularly effective in working one-on-one with executives, leaders, and staff to resolve cross-cultural interpersonal issues with the goal of enhancing work performance.  Brim-Atkins helps organizations improve their culture, actively reflect their stated values and achieve their desired vision.

Elizabeth Burke, B.S., Illinois State University; M.A., Antioch University Seattle; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Burke is a skilled professional with 25 years of project management, strategic planning, coaching, facilitating and consulting experience. She specializes in work with organizations wanting to revitalize themselves and pursue creative new endeavors and individuals wishing to grow beyond their current horizons. She helps organizations and people explore and tell their stories. She regularly leads digital storytelling classes and workshops and teaches writing classes. Burke is also a licensed massage practitioner with a private Asian bodywork practice.

Mary Coss, B.F.A., Eastern Michigan University; M.F.A., Syracuse University; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Mary Coss's background in sculpture and interdisciplinary studies inspires her belief in the power of art to transform individuals and communities. Her extensive experience in fine arts, design, public and community art contribute to her commitment to infuse art into public housing as a way to humanize the built environment and support social justice. Her extensive exhibition record includes several sculpture parks and public collections in Washington and California. Artwork is viewable at www.marycoss.com.

Carmen D’Arcangelo, B.A., Harvard College; M.B.A, Simmons Graduate School of Management; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Carmen D’Arcangelo is a collaborative leader with progressively responsible management experience in fluid, diverse non-profit and for-profit organizations. She demonstrated high value-add in steering employee/management/volunteer relations, implementing new programs, and leading with business acumen and financial consideration in mind. She has an ardent commitment to building healthy and supportive communities through sustainable communication.

Dan Dodd, B.A., University of Washington; M.A. Antioch University Seattle; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Dan Dodd is currently a student in the Psychology doctoral program at Antioch University Seattle. Dodd has vast experience in King County working in the fields of chemical dependency and substance abuse. In addition to AUS, he has taught at the Community Colleges in Everett and in Bellevue. He is a member of the Northwest Neurological Association and Associate Member of the American Psychological Association.

Talal S. Hattar, B.A., University of Texas at Austin; M.A., University of Washington; M.A., Georgetown University; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Talal Hattar is presently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. His dissertation deals with violent identity conflict in the Levant. He has extensive background in political economy.

Gwen Jones, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., University of Washington; adjunct faculty, liberal studies, core faculty, psychology. Gwendolyn Jones has been on the Antioch faculty since 1987 and has administrative as well as teaching responsibilities. She is primarily interested in the study of racial and gender stereotypes, the psychological impacts of sexual coercion and racial discrimination and the application of cultural and ethnic understanding to the counseling process.

Iveta Jusová, M.A., Palacky University, Czech Republic; Ph.D., Miami University, Ohio; adjunct faculty, Antioch Education Abroad. Iveta Jusová’s book The New Woman and the Empire (the Ohio University Press, 2005) examines the ways in which late nineteenth-century British women writers approached national, racial, and ethnic difference. Her current research project examines the possibilities and challenges entailed in the present-day encounters between European feminist discourses and the growing immigrant population into Europe from former colonies.

Suzanne Kolb, B.S., State University of New York at Stony Brook; Ph.D., University of Georgia; adjunct faculty, Antioch Education Abroad. Suzanne Kolb has conducted field research on habitat restoration in Brazil and Costa Rica, which has been funded by the World Wildlife Fund, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Science Foundation. Her work in this area has been cited in graduate level textbooks published by both Cambridge University Press and John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Vincent Kovar, B.A., B.A., University of Washington; M.A., Seattle University; adjunct faculty, Learning and Teaching Cooperative and liberal studies. In addition to Antioch, Vincent Kovar also teaches at the University of Phoenix and Richard Hugo House. He is a consulting instructional designer for large software and telecom firms as well as a copywriter and scriptwriter for both private industry and public institutions. Kovar is past editor-at-large at ‘mo Magazine and editor-in-chief of the Gay City Health Project Anthologies. Over one-hundred pieces of his fiction, essays, plays and articles have been published in the US, Australia, Canada and UK.

Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrook, B.A., M.A., and Ph.C. University of Washington; adjunct faculty, liberal studies.  Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrook is a doctoral candidate in environmental anthropology at the University of Washington. Her dissertation research is an interdisciplinary study of the intersections between traditional foods revitalization in Coast Salish communities, and access to, and health of, culturally important plants and their habitats on public lands in Washington State and British Columbia. Her teaching interests include political ecologies of food and the land, environmental and ethnohistory, and ethnobotany.

Michael Lewis, B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.L.A., University of Washington; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Michael Lewis's interests are in the deep layering of social, cultural, and ecologic narratives found through landscape experience. He is also a lecturer at the University of Washington, and has continued to explore and share theory and research on traces, trails, and design in local, national, and international venues.

Sara Beth Lohre, M.A., St. Mary's University of Minnesota; adjunct faculty, liberal studies and psychology. Sara Beth Lohre's experience includes nonprofit management, community networking and organizing, curriculum and program development, and extensive counseling experience with a wide range of issues and populations including those transitioning from incarceration. Lohre has developed and implemented social service programming such as mentor training and life and work skill coaching, worked with youth and families, the older and wiser, new immigrants and people from all different socioeconomic backgrounds. She is currently in Antioch's Psy.D. program.

Barrett Martin, B.A., University of New Mexico; M.A., University of New Mexico; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Barrett Martin is a professional musician, composer, producer, and record label founder who has recorded and toured around the world in various rock, jazz, and world music groups. His experience as a session drummer in Seattle and Los Angeles, as well as his work with musicians from West Africa, the Middle East, South America, and other Indigenous Peoples, has given him a unique, first hand perspective on modern world music. His career spans from rock bands Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Tuatara, and REM, to Gambian Kora master Foday Musa Suso, Iraqi oudist Rahim Alhaj, Delta bluesman CeDell Davis, and the poets Coleman Barks and Joy Harjo.

Charles Morrison, B.A., M.A., University of Missouri; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Charles Morrison taught classes in the history of ideas for six years at the Kansas City Art Institute, then became a “hippie in the woods” for six years and attended Antioch Seattle for a year. Morrison teaches and practices Hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation, is a professional speaker and conducts training in speaking and presentations. He is currently a Human Resources Development Specialist at Blue Cross of Washington and Alaska.

Dickey Nesenger, B.S., University of Florida; M.F.A., Goddard College; adjunct faculty, liberal studies.  Dickey Nesenger worked in the film industry for seventeen years as a script supervisor before turning her attention to playwriting.  Her first play was produced in 1984 at the Met Theatre in Los Angeles and since then her plays have been produced throughout the United States. Recent productions and workshops include The Looking Glass Theatre and Abingdon Theatre Complex in New York, New Jersey Repertory, Ashland Short Play Festival where she received the Critics Choice Pick, Boston’s Out-Of-Bounds Theatre Festival, and Seattle’s Live Girls.  A Heinemann Finalist for Best Ten-Minute Play, The Green Lake Monster was published by Knock Press in 2005 and received a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her monologue Sunday Drive will appear in 2009 Fall Issue of Knock. A recipient of a Seattle Arts Commission Individual Grant for her screenplay Mason’s Muse, Nesenger also serves as a lecturer on film and Shakespeare studies at Northwest Film Forum and Richard Hugo House.  She mentors for PATH for Art, a Seattle based community outreach program, and serves as panelist for Artist Trust Foundation and Advisory Editor for Knock Press at Antioch University Seattle.

Phoenix Raine, B.A., Fairhaven College, WWU; MEd., Antioch University Seattle; Ph.D., Pacifica Graduate Institute; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Phoenix Raine's focus on intercultural and interdisciplinary education has led her to a Depth Psychological methodology that enhances her pedagogical approach to social justice. To explore her belief that there is a need for a therapeutic sensibility to address oppression and that educators can also be considered cultural healers, Raine's dissertation focused on the Confluence Project memorials along the Columbia River as places of cross-cultural healing.

Glen Slater, B.A., M. Phil., University of Sydney; Ph.D., Pacifica Graduate Institute; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Glen Slater has been teaching depth psychology for the past fifteen years, specializing in Jungian and archetypal studies. His research and writing interests include psychology and religion, psychology and contemporary culture, and psyche and film. He edited and introduced the third volume of James Hillman's Uniform Edition of writings, edited (with Dennis Patrick Slattery) Varieties of Mythic Experience, and has written a number of articles on topics ranging from gun violence to cyborgs.

Ken Turner, A.A., Peninsula Community College; additional training at Kansas City Art Institute; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Ken Turner has been a professional potter for more than 25 years and has more than 30 years experience working with clay. He is also on the faculty at Bellevue Community College and teaches at Moshier Art Center, with more than nine years of teaching experience. He has exhibited nationally and his work is represented in private and corporate collections. While expansive in his work, he is most famous for his decorative ceramics with gold and platinum embellishments.

Michael Viola, B.S., University of California, Davis; M.A., University of Oregon; M.P.A, University of Oregon; Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles; adjunct faculty, liberal studies.  Michael Viola’s interests include critical pedagogy, race studies, hip-hop, political economy, social movements, and media / cultural studies.  His current research evaluates the contributions of Filipino/a American community-based organizations to both critical theory and social practice. 

Mark Wicks, B.S.S.W., University of North Dakota, M.S.W., University of Washington School of Social Work; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Mark Wicks works as a medical student counselor and as clinical faculty at U.W. School of Medicine and U.W. School of Social Work. He is an experienced therapist for persons facing loss associated with chronic illness, life-threatening illness, trauma, and bereavement. His other interests include the integration of spirituality, cross-cultural awareness, and personal death awareness as you develop your own practice style.