Pictured is Jane Foreman, '17, working at the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI). She is pictured here with Antioch College Trustee Joyce Idema '57, who is also president of the board at SFAI. This spring I’m living and working at the Santa Fe Art Institute, a
Running a farm requires many sets of hands. I co-oped at Moonshadow Farm, outside of Yellow Springs, Ohio. The farm is owned and run by Caroline and Paul Mullin and their two teenaged children, Max and Anna. Caroline mainly works with the animals, while Paul
My time here is spent mostly all alone, finishing difficult and physically demanding projects at my own pace. I find this kind of interaction with learning to be incredibly helpful and I feel that the skills I’ve acquired here are going to stick with me
I have gotten to a point in my co-op where talking about the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico has become almost natural. I spend my weeks there, sometimes my free time, and I meet amazing and inspiring people there that help me understand exactly
Working at Sunfield Farms and Waldorf School has provided me with an excellent immersion into the elegant simplicity of farm life. I follow a daily routine for basic upkeep of both animals and crops, and almost every day involves some sort of hard physical labor,
I believe that my co-op experience thus far has allowed me to see social structures and stigmas more clearly relative to a work environment. I have learned a great deal already about freedom and the costs and responsibilities that come along with it. I feel
The journey to this moment, where I am sitting on a plane headed eventually to Malaysia, has been an interesting one for which I have some insights and lessons to be taken for the future. First, life is complicated so I have a co-op in
Enviroflight is a tiny but growing company with an office, warehouse, greenhouse, wetlab and 3 raised garden beds. With five employees, including myself, we manage the facilities seven days per week in order to bag frass. Frass, being the left over product of feeding black
Originally I said in my Learning Objectives that I wanted to be able to journal about my experiences and in that way be able to reflect and process my learning experiences. I had difficulty keeping up with it after exhausting days spent outside, and I
I am currently working for the North Star Fund in New York. They are a grassroots community foundation which has supported other grassroots groups that have led the movement for social justice since 1979. They organize donors, raise money for and allocate grants, and provide
