Kori Wood

I'm a creative and dedicated writer with experience in developing unique and original copy, content, and news stories. I ensure that deadlines are met and thrive under pressure. I'm also technologically adept with expertise in digital publishing, web editing, print, journalism, and social media. I'm a lover of multimedia storytelling, and passionate about innovative ways to tell stories.

Common Thread - News & Updates from the Antioch University Community •

Tapping Into the Vulnerability of Fiction Writing - Common Thread

Dara Padwo-Audick has always been a writer. Before enrolling in Antioch University Santa Barbara’s MFA in Writing and Contemporary Media program, she already had a rich professional history in nonfiction television. Padwo-Audick has been writing professionally for over thirty years, but she was already a writer by the time she was six. “I started writing when I was six,” Padwo-Audick says. “I used to write plays and short stories.”
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Cool Course: “Childhood and Nature: Design Principles for Educators” - Common Thread

“Childhood and Nature: Design Principles for Educators” Fosters Childhood Learning Through Connections with Nature Playful engagement in nature can be an incredible tool for learning. That’s common sense to many who spent their childhoods climbing trees, watching ants at war, and watching seeds grow into plants. But students in Aimee Arandia Østensen’s course “Childhood and Nature: Design Principles for Educators” also get to learn about the research and best practices that underpin more formal
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A Life Dedicated to Resilience, Service, and Moving Forward - Common Thread

If there is one word to describe Danyaile Hammond, it’s the word resilience. Hammond keeps moving forward—no matter what. In her view, there’s no point in getting stuck in the past. Hammond is currently finishing a Master of Arts in Education at Antioch University Seattle, but as an undergraduate, she studied human development with a focus on adolescents and family studies. She worked to support herself during her undergraduate degree, but despite being busy, she always put herself in a positio
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Cool Course: “Globalization, Immigration, and Education: Critical Perspectives” - Common Thread

“The course is all about gaining a nuanced perspective of the macro- and micro-level effects of globalization and human migration in the classroom,” says Dr. Caryn Park. She’s teaching “Globalization, Immigration, and Education: Critical Perspectives” at Antioch University Seattle again this year, taking a group of students on a journey of exploration as they dive deeply into the impact and experience of migration and globalization. With its combination of media, field trips, readings, and discu
Antioch University Alumni Magazine •

Penny McBride: From Foodie to Revolutionary Food Production – Antioch University Alumni Magazine

“I’ve always appreciated quality food and what it takes to make high-quality food,” she says. Still, even natural transitions take work, and that’s a lesson McBride applies to her career too. After fourteen years of creating revolutionary growing systems, McBride has learned everything the hard way. As a child, she grew up on a large-scale farm and ranch, so she knows the grueling labor that goes into growing food. McBride understands that innovation is not easy. “There’s not enough to be said
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Mark Fargo: A Poet on the Road – Antioch University Alumni Magazine

Mark Fargo ’10 (Antioch Santa Barbara, MA in Education, Leadership & Social Justice) rides a motorcycle, but he has no interest in Harley Davidsons or Sturgis. His personal motto is non solum iter: I travel alone. Although he only started riding when he was sixty, Fargo has already traveled all over the country, clocking in over 140,000 miles in just seven years. In that time, he has published three chapbooks documenting his travels in a combination of photographs and haiku. ...
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Sharing Culture and Changing Narratives with Afro-Fusion – Antioch University Alumni Magazine

My grandmother and my mom are the best cooks and most industrious women I know. They passed their knowledge and skills down to me. When I cook and share with others, I honor their legacy. I would cook for friends or take meals to church on Sundays to share. I never thought about cooking beyond that. In the 2012 New Venture Challenge, just having African sauces as a product in supermarkets was my goal. Cooking, catering, having a restaurant were not things I ever thought about. Every time I cooke
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Leading and Thriving in the Chaos of Uncertain Times - Common Thread

Caroline Kuliga loves the chaos of the classroom. As a preschool teacher, that’s where the Antioch alum thrives on a hands-on approach to teaching. For Kuliga, learning is messy. It starts in the dirt, and she is more than happy to play in the mud with her students. Still, it’s nice to have a change of pace, and one of the best parts of Kuliga’s job as a preschool educator is taking in the little, quiet moments. Those small moments of connection that many people wouldn’t notice. Like when two i
Antioch New England •

A Legacy of Building Communities: Dr. Jim Gruber, Beloved Antioch Professor, Retires

Dr. Jim Gruber, PhD, PE, is one of those renaissance men that are rare these days. Throughout his life, Gruber’s career has brought him all over the world. He has a Master’s degree in engineering from MIT, a Master’s in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in environmental conservation from the University of Zagreb. Gruber has done a little bit of everything. Yet, at the core of his work, the focal point has always been the desire to build healthy...
Antioch Seattle •

Sarah Bethel: Putting Food on the Table and Fostering Connections with School Gardens

Sarah Bethel: Putting Food on the Table and Fostering Connections with School Gardens Sarah Bethel has moved from coast to coast. She studied environmental studies at the University of Oregon, traveled up and down the West Coast doing service projects as a part of AmeriCorps, and taught early Education in Vermont and Connecticut for three years. These days, Bethel is back on the west coast, and working towards a Masters of Education with a Leadership in Edible Education Certificate at Antioch U
Antioch Los Angeles •

Demi Espinoza: Bringing Representation and Environmental Justice to the Table

Demi Espinoza: Bringing Representation and Environmental Justice to the Table Demi Espinoza is an advocate who believes in the power of narratives. Her own story starts with her parents, people who she describes as working-class Mexican immigrants. Growing up as the youngest of ten in a Community of Color had an impact on the trajectory of Espinoza’s own life. Despite being on the frontline of environmental and social disparities, communities like the one she grew up in weren’t priorities to ci
Antioch New England •

William Hafford: Finding Connection through Adventure Therapy

At the center of William Hafford’s life has always been Maine. At a young age, he moved from cities and military bases to the free-ranged sprawling greenery of the eastern state. The New England landscape imprinted on Hafford immediately. These days Hafford has a PsyD in clinical psychology from Antioch University and works in adventure therapy. Maine is still a key ingredient in Hafford’s practice, and that’s where you’ll find him most days–canoeing, hiking, climbing, or some other outdoor ...
Antioch New England •

Caroline Ailanthus: Antioch graduate blends fact and fiction to create post-apocalyptic novel

Growing up surrounded by a family and community of writers, Caroline Ailanthus began writing and taking her craft seriously at an early age. “My parents are both writers, storytellers, and avid readers, as are most of their friends, so it simply felt natural to engage with words in one way or another,” Ailanthus says. As Ailanthus continued to develop her skills as a writer, she began to understand...
Antioch Santa Barbara •

Antioch University Santa Barbara Introduces "Keep Locals Local" Initiative

Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB) recently received a $5000 grant from Wells Fargo, the first in a series of grants sought to support the “Keep Locals, Local” Initiative. AUSB will award scholarships to two high school students who had participated in the Pathway to Effective Access to College (PEAC) program while attending high school in the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD). Specifically, PEAC is a pathway to support English learners in SBUSD. According to Santa Barbara’s Di
Passages North •

Bird Trap by Kori Wood — Passages North

Associate fiction editor Madeline Hernstrom-Hill on today’s bonus story: In "Bird Trap," a scarecrow-turned woman walks the backroads by the cornfield, dragging her old leather skin behind her. Kori Wood has created a gothic landscape of crows and rotting crabapples, where prose as fine as a spider's web draws us into a tangle of sex, regret, and the afterpains of transformation. Readers, prepare to be haunted. Back before I gave up leather stitching for flesh or knew the nature of regret—fragi
Antioch Los Angeles •

Co-Creating Community: An Evening of Dialogue Hosted by AULA and The Institute of Non-Violence in Los Angeles

Co-Creating Community: An Evening of Dialogue Hosted by AULA and The Institute of Non-Violence in Los Angeles Antioch University Los Angeles hosted Co-Creating Communities Through Listening, Imagining, and Acting. The night started with a shared meal, followed by a roundtable dialogue. Almost forty people attended the event, which was facilitated by the Institute for Non-Violence in Los Angeles (INVLA). “After the shooting at the temple in Pittsburgh last year, we started having informal conve
Antioch Santa Barbara •

AUSB Adds Highly Anticipated Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

Antioch University Santa Barbara is proud to offer a newly designed Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. This degree aims to serve the needs of the student body and will provide students with an opportunity to pursue a degree centered around psychological theory. This new degree will also provide the applied skills that will enhance their ability to obtain jobs in the field. “A lot of people were involved in designing this degree. It was a collaboration with Santa Barbara City College as well as our
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AULA and UCLA Health Partnering on Fellowship Focused on LGBTQ Medical Care

AULA and UCLA Health Partnering on Fellowship Focused on LGBTQ Medical Care Antioch University Los Angeles and the LGBT Specialization are excited to support the UCLA LGBTQ Fellowship at UCLA Health in association with the David Geffen School of Medicine. Having learned of the LGBT Specialization’s one-of-a-kind LGBTQ affirmative clinical program, UCLA approached Antioch to provide affirmative mental healthcare education for a practicing physician in a year-long fellowship program. Because LGB
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