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PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Goddard College’s Board of Trustees welcomed three new members at its March meeting. Retired professor and researcher Dr. Christopher W. Lovell; writer, empath and conscious channel Paul Selig; and nonprofit executive and former chief nursing officer Dr. Gloria J. Willingham-Touré join 14 continuing members of the College’s governing board. Christopher W. Lovell,… Continue reading Three new Trustees join Goddard board

On Friday, March 25, the UGP2 Residency Opening Session launched in the Haybarn Theatre with an open mic sharing on the theme of Freeing Speech/ Speaking Freedom. Then, as in UGP1’s Opening Session, we transitioned into a World Cafe reflection about Goddard College’s draft Social Justice and Anti-Oppression Statement. The energy in the room was… Continue reading Freeing Speech/ Speaking Freedom Round 2!

Some lovely images of the closing session of the Spring semester Undergraduate Residency cycle (UGP1) that ended on March 3, 2016. It was a very moving circle bringing closure to a powerful week. And now we embark on Spring residency of UGP2, which begins on March 24, 2016.

A sampling of this weekend’s graduating student presentations in the Undergraduate Studies Program 1 Residency. Each student presents the work of their senior thesis/project for 45 minutes to a rapt audience of students, faculty, and guests. Mackenzie Schonback presents, “Decolonizing Altruism: International Aid and the Dangers of Good Intentions.” Vincent Seadler presents, “BMore Collective: How… Continue reading A Sampler of Graduating Student Presentations

Educator, farmer, and food justice advocate Leah Penniman to lead conversation with students and the public PLAINFIELD, Vt. — Educator, farmer and food justice advocate Leah Penniman will lead a conversation on the Black farming community and food sovereignty at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 27, in Goddard’s Haybarn Theatre, 123 Pitkin Road. The event, titled… Continue reading Goddard to host talk on the Black farming community, food sovereignty

PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Goddard College is excited to announce its new partnership with the Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First. Founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, the California-based nonprofit describes itself as a “people’s think tank” dedicated to ending the injustices that cause hunger and to… Continue reading Goddard signs new partnership with Food First

The Goddard Undergraduate Program is thrilled to see Nikhil Goyal‘s work reaching the world in increasingly inspiring and powerful ways. Nikhil’s book, Schools on Trial, is being released on February 16, 2016 by Doubleday/ Random House Press. Nikhil has appeared on MSNBC and FOX and written for the New York Times, MSNBC, The Nation, and other publications. Goyal… Continue reading Congrats to Nikhil Goyal (IBA ’16)

PLAINFIELD, Vt. – The Goddard College Board of Trustees elected Goddard alumna and longtime trustee Jill Mattuck Tarule as its new chair. Jill Mattuck Tarule is a University of Vermont Professor Emerita and, as dean of the College of Education and Social Services, was one of the university’s longest serving deans. Tarule is the recipient… Continue reading Jill Mattuck Tarule Elected Chair of Goddard Board

Personal, political, fight against oppression From his one-bedroom in Denver, Colorado, Mark Anderson (IBA ’14), created a creative and imaginative podcast for his senior study. The podcast, called The Smallest Bone, presents an array of stories through short films. As an introduction and explanation to his work, Mark writes: “The smallest bone in the body is located in… Continue reading Story Documentation: Mark Anderson (IBA ’14)

Personal, political, fight against oppression Michele Clark (Psychology Program faculty) has started a story-based blog about being Jewish on the Lower East Side 1945 to 1960. It is called Rivington at Essex. Michele vulnerably and eloquently shares her experience as a New York Jew and historian of family, community, and meat. She writes: “Our grandfather, Zayde… Continue reading Story Documentation: Michele Clark (PSY Faculty)

Personal, political, fight against oppression Matthew Dineen (IMA ’14) created a very personal and political, Music & Work Project and related blog. Included in this music and labor/employee activism project is a nationwide tour and the publication of a zine: Not for You? Matthew is “a Massachusetts-born writer, musician, activist, and service worker. For the past 6 years,… Continue reading Story Documentation: Matthew Dineen (IMA ’14)

Connection and Collaboration Deborah Hickey (Psychology Program faculty) shares that her creative research has contributed to the development of the workshop, Artful & Playful Expressions of Genograms, shared at the Expressive Therapies Summit in New York City. This workshop introduces participants to the value of exploring intergenerational story threads; workshops are accompanied by artful and playful… Continue reading Story Threads: Deborah Hickey (PSY Faculty)

Connection and collaboration Karen Werner (Undergraduate Program faculty) is collaborating with Kristi Leora Gansworth (MFAW Port Townsend ‘12) to develop an audio and digital storytelling project titled “I Have Been Born at the Waterfall Many Times.” The piece is about colonization and water as a living relative, focusing on a sacred waterfall, Akikodjiwan (Chaudiere Falls), that… Continue reading Story Threads: Karen Werner (Faculty) and Kristi Leora Gansworth (MFAW ‘12)

Wendy Call (BFA in Creative Writing faculty) recently launched a map/place-based literary project that contains a collection of Sqebeqsed Stories. Wendy shares that these are the stories of Southeast Seattle’s Seward Park, home to the city’s last old-growth forest. Wendy notes that “place is a story happening many times,” or so say the Kwakiutl people of… Continue reading Story Map: Place as Story

Goddard’s propensity to gather and tell powerful stories was never more evident than in the creative cross-programmatic project, True Stories: Adventures in Nonfiction Audio Storytelling. This endeavor was birthed from a venture (the Story + Media Lab) conceptualized by Karen Werner (UGP Faculty) in collaboration with Jackie Batten (WGDR Training Coordinator). Karen and Jackie facilitated a… Continue reading Story Teaching: Youth Rising Up

Transformation, healing, and elevation of self and others Robin Stone (MA HAS ‘15) used her graduate thesis “Black Women’s Lives Matter: A Narrative, Womanist Approach to Self-Care,” as a vehicle “to help Black women embrace self-care through engaging with the stories of their bodies,” she says. Stone’s influences include Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde… Continue reading Story Voice: Robin Stone (MA HAS ‘15)

Transformation, healing, and elevation of self and others Meta Commerse is an alumna with three degrees from Goddard (BA HAS ‘01, MA EDU ‘02, MFAW ‘11) and she has a company called Story Medicine, www.storymedicineasheville.com that publishes books, videos, gives workshops, and presentations on using the power of story to heal. It is a community-based… Continue reading Story Voice: Meta Commerse (BA HAS ‘01, MA EDU ‘02, MFAW ‘11)

Transformation, healing, and elevation of self and others In her culminating research work at Goddard, titled “Self-Transformation and Collective Liberation: Stories of Learning and Longing,” Kerrie Lynn Mayer (MA EDU ‘13) asks, “How does one become a teller of stories, a speaker of truths, a confronter of fears and injustices?” “This has been an important question… Continue reading Story Voice: Kerrie Lynn Mayer (MA EDU ‘13)