With support from Antioch College and the Lloyd Family Fund, four Antioch College undergraduates presented posters at the 2015 Oral History Association conference in Tampa, Florida. The conference theme, Stories of Social Change and Social Justice, aligned with their faculty-mentored oral history-based fieldwork conducted during
After completing her rigorous three year French language studies, Clara Strong '16 ventured out for her fourth and final co-op to "The City of Light", Paris, France! While in Paris, Clara worked for a non-profit NGO called Les Auxiliaries des Aveugles or the Auxiliary of
When you arrive in a big, unfamiliar city, things that are not normally intimidating become new sources of anxiety. You don’t know, with certainty, where to find the landmarks which normally ground your life and you feel like an outsider to the cultural nuances specific
I remember struggling in my advanced Spanish classes and wondering if it was worth it to complete the three-year program. My main motivation to continue became the option of doing an additional fifth co-op in a Spanish speaking country as the final capstone experience of
I work at the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. The university was founded in 1869 and is New Zealand’s oldest university. By 1871, the University had three professors with over 100,000 acres of land as endowment for
For my fourth and final co-op I worked as an intern in the Conflict Resolution Program: Africa, in the Carter Center. I divided my time between two programs: Liberia and Sudan/South Sudan, which has given me an opportunity to better understand the current political, social,
The Iwate Ginga Net project has been ongoing for several years, beginning almost immediately after the tsunami disaster in March 2011. The Net project is designed to both assist the people in the area with reconstruction and day to day life, with an increasing emphasis
The streets are filled with vendors selling beans and corn tostada, people convincing tourists to buy fake alpaca sweaters and colorful fishing pants, and the garbage of Ritz crackers, Coca-Cola, and slew of other trash-snacks produced by corporate moguls who have gotten their hands on
This quarter, Selena Wilkinson ’17 and I are working for the Whole House Reuse project in Christchurch, New Zealand. Whole House Reuse, a project facilitated by Rekindle, aims to make visible the amount of waste occurring throughout the Canterbury region as buildings are demolished and
For my third co-op experience, I decided to live as a Catholic Worker at Casa Juan Diego in Houston, Texas. This came as a big surprise to my friends, my family, and especially myself, because not only am I not Catholic, but I am also
