Board of Trustees


Shannon TL Isom is the President and CEO of YWCA Dayton. Isom is responsible for the executive and
administrative leadership of the YWCA Dayton, which strives to eliminate racism and empower women.
Likewise, she is responsible to ensure high quality outcomes, financial sustainability, organizational viability,
and exceptional program service delivery. The YWCA Dayton has played a pivotal role in shaping the Dayton
region; Isom’s priority is to carry the mission and to ensure it is both a catalyst and a disrupter for issues that
affect women, especially those most acutely felt through the lens of intersectionality. She served as a YWCA
Dayton board member, as well as Board Chair before taking the helm and ushering the YWCA Dayton into a
$17+M renovation and capital campaign project.
Isom began her professional career with the YWCA Columbus; hired as a program manager of a pilot
program, she solidified her commitment to women, and her passion for medicine and community health into
a realized professional focus. With over 20 years engaged within a myriad of health industries, she has
worked for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Women's Health Division, Miami Valley Hospital, Premier Health
Partners and CareSource in areas of Sales, Business Development, Systems Integration and Business and
Clinical Integration, respectively. She brings her skill set of visioning, strategic planning and profitable
business focus to every position.
Isom has had extensive Post-Baccalaureate education from The Ohio State University School of Medicine and
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. She has a BS of Pre-Medicine/Biology from Spelman
College in Atlanta, Georgia and an MBA in Healthcare Administration from Northeastern D'Amore-McKim
School of Business in Boston, Massachusetts. Awards bestowed include: Dayton Business Journal Forty under
40, Leadership Dayton, Dayton Business Journal 50 Most Powerful Women, Better Business Bureau WiBN
Top 25 Women to Watch, Antioch College Coretta Scott King Justice Award and Dayton Business Journal
Forty under 40 Hall of Fame.
She has spoken in a wide range of venues, including: Standing Firm, University of Dayton Social Practice
Human Rights Conference, Tedx Dayton, Tedx Salons, YWCA USA, United Theological Seminary, Antioch
College, Central State University, Girls on the Run and Power Rising Summit—always addressing the issues
that disparate women of race and class. Through board service on the YWCA USA Board of Directors as well
as President of the Ohio Council of YWCA’s, her focus strives for both political advocacy, mission and
collective voice within national, state and local platforms.
Likewise, she lends her voice, time and energy in the same vain to community through participation on
innumerable boards, committees, task forces and personal and professional mentoring.


Chris is the founder and President of the Black Student Union at Antioch College, and he is the Co-Chair (co-president) of ComCil. He is from Trotwood, Ohio, and his self-design degree is Pre-Law and Community Engagement. His Co-ops consist of The Transgender Law Center in Oakland, California, working in the communications and development department and is going to work at the Law Office of Phillip Brigham for his winter Co-op being a legal assistant. Chris has been a Miller Fellow for The Village Impact Project in Yellow Springs and a student assistant at the Coretta Scott King Center.


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Shalini Deo is the principal law clerk to the Honorable Rita Mella, in New York County Surrogate’s Court, where she has worked since 2013. Shalini earned a Bachelor of Science in a Self-Designed Major titled “Botany, Environment, and Culture” from Antioch College. She is a 2008 graduate of CUNY School of Law, where she was a student practitioner in the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic during her third year. Upon graduating from law school she clerked for the Honorable Ronald L. Ellis, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York. She also serves as an adjunct professor at CUNY School of Law. Shalini lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her spouse and their awesome kid, Meena.
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Maureen Lynch is an active community leader who has volunteered for more than 35 years in support of women’s rights, civil liberties and access to health care in Dayton and Yellow Springs, where she resides. A native of Akron, Ohio, Lynch currently serves on the Board of Trustees for The Dayton Foundation. She previously has served as a board member or officer for a number of local organizations, including Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Planned Parenthood of the Greater Miami Valley, NARAL Ohio, Think TV, Dayton YWCA, Friends Care Community and Lion Apparel, among others. She was recognized in 2003 as one of the Dayton YWCA Women of Influence.


Neuhardt is a Partner at Thompson Hine LLP in Dayton, Ohio specializing in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and technology law. She was the head of the firm’s corporate transactions and securities practice group from 2005-2008. Neuhardt was also the Vice President and General Counsel of Mead Data Central, Inc. (now known as LexisNexis) from 1987-1990. In addition to her work with the Ohio Democratic Party, Neuhardt has been active in Planned Parenthood for decades. Neuhardt and her husband David are stalwarts of the Yellow Spring's community who helped save the historic Whitehall farm property from mass development, protecting 950 acres with a conservation easement conservation easement through the Tecumseh Land Trust. She earned a BA from Northwestern University in 1973 and holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.


Shelby is the Director of Policy and Programs at the Transgender Law Center (TLC), the countries largest trans led organization. Shelby’s work focuses on supporting the leadership of transgender people of color around the US, to ensure they are alive and thriving. Prior to TLC, Shelby served as the Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the New York City Anti-Violence Project for 6 years. Shelby holds a BA from Antioch College and an MS in Public Policy from the New School. Shelby has dedicated their career to organizing and mobilizing LGBTQ people, people of color and low income communities to ensure policies are informed by the people directly impacted by economic inequality and violence. Shelby lives in Brooklyn, New York, with their partner and two cats.


John K. Jacobs (not to be confused with John L. Jacobs ’76) has many Antioch connections. He met his wife Mary (class of ’74) when he entered in 1972, his father John K. Jacobs Sr. graduated in 1940, and his first cousin Evelyn Lamers ’69 and her husband Tom (class of ’69) are, or were, all proud Antioch alumni.
After graduating from Antioch with a focus on the fine arts, sculpture in particular, John continued his studies at the MFA program at Hunter College in New York. While there he began working part time in galleries and museums in New York and after leaving Hunter in 1980 he joined the staff of The New Museum where he took the job of Registrar, managing the exhibitions and collections of the museum. After spending 6 years at the museum and seeing it grow into the most cutting edge contemporary art museum in New York he left to join the fledgling art services company, Crozier Fine Arts. This company specialized in the storage, shipping, crating and packing and installation of fine art all over the world and provided the commercial experience that he would need to found his own company.
In 1989, with his wife Mary and their three small children, he left New York for Washington, D.C. to establish ARTEX Fine Art Services in the former post office building of Takoma Park Maryland. The company quickly grew and established offices in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago and Ft. Lauderdale and today is the largest art service provider in the United States, specializing in working with museums, galleries, private collectors and auction houses.


Susan Jean (Shay) Mayer is a developmental learning and curricular theorist who writes on a range of issues related to democratic K-12 practice, social science method, and the study of learning within schools. Mayer draws on contemporary understandings of the work of psychologists Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky and on the philosophy of pragmatism as explicated by John Dewey. Her 2012 book, Classroom Discourse and Democracy: Making Meanings Together, employs classroom discourse analysis in order to characterize and theorize distinctively democratic features of secondary literature discussions.
Mayer has taught in teacher education programs at Brandeis and Northeastern Universities and worked in secondary textbook production for five years. She is editor-in-chief of the online Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies and was a founding member of Critical Explorers, a non-profit that conducts curricular research and design residencies (criticalexplorers.org). An edited book on the use of the teaching approach Critical Exploration in the Classroom within teacher education programs is in review.


Merriman is a graduate of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She is of counsel in the law firm of Voyles Zahn Paul, a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association, and an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. She served on the Antioch University Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2012.
In the past, Sharon worked with Planned Parenthood of Central Indiana, Big Sisters (before they merged), and currently serves on several committees at All Souls Unitarian Church. Additionally, she is a reader for IRIS an organization which works with our public radio/television station to read for the visually impaired. Sharon is an active member of the Travelers Century Club, having visited over one hundred countries and all continents.


Mulhauser has been providing consulting services to nonprofit organizations, grantmakers and political candidates since 1988 (including the Obama for America campaign and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton ‘60). She coordinates a network of over 1,030 Washington, D.C.-area self-employed women. She is founder and coordinator of Trusted Sources, a nonpartisan voter engagement organization. She serves on the D.C. Human Rights Commission and the Advisory Council of Women’s Information Network, which each year presents a D.C. woman with The Karen Mulhauser Award for service to support the advancement of young professional women.
Before consulting, Mulhauser was the Director of the Center for Education on Nuclear War and an affiliated lobbying coalition, Citizens Against Nuclear War (CAN), and was Executive Director of the National Abortion Rights Action League during most of the ‘70s and through 1981.


Manley is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. He received a bachelor's in East Asian history and education from Towson University. He earned a master’s in Asian studies, and doctorate in education from the Claremont Graduate University. He has a long history of board and volunteer service to organizations such as the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), Ford Family Foundation Visual Arts Initiative, National Endowment of the Arts Education Leadership Initiative, and the Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges and Universities. Manley has nearly four decades of experience in higher education, including 12 years as president of Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland and 22 years at the Claremont Colleges -- primarily at Pitzer College -- where he held a variety of administrative posts and served as a member of the faculty. Visit the President's Office website for more.


Michael Casselli has been interested in the hybridization of forms and media since he received his undergraduate degree in visual arts/performance theory from Antioch College in 1987. While at the college, he staged large-scale outdoor mixed media performance installations, whose primary focus was an attempt to clarify issues of sense-based perception and the physicality inherent in performative work. After Antioch, he was accepted into the Masters Program in Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
While at RISD his worked started to move away from the performative context, while maintaining a vested interest in sense of physicality, choosing to focus on the role that the spectator plays as a necessary figurative element of a completed work. It was at RISD that he started to define the contextual framework through which his work was to be experienced. By eliminating physical boundaries between the viewer and the work, he provided the spectator with a choice as to how they would interact with it.
While these concerns still remain active in the work he produces today, his vocabulary has expanded to include more subtle ways of asking the same questions, and has allowed him to consider a broader palate of contemporary media in the creation of his work, utilizing video, robotics, and home-grown technologies. Michael spent twenty years in New York City within the underground art and performance scene, fully integrating his early concerns with performance and the visual arts. While continuing to create large-scale installations, he found himself able to apply many of the same concerns within the performance arena, creating scenic and video design for dance and theater, earning him a Bessie Award for Scenic Design in 1987. Michael relocated to Yellow Springs in 2009 to establish the Manic Design Studio, a place for hybrid experimentation in all media.
EDUCATION
- MFA, Visual Arts, Rhode Island School of Design
- Concentration: Sculpture
- Thesis: Hybrid Form and the Question of Traditional Arts Practice
- BA, Self-Designed Major, Antioch College
- Concentration: Visual Arts/Performance Theory
COURSES
- MEDA 101: Media, Internet, and Society
- MEDA 130: Practical New Media
- MEDA 160: Sound Art
- MEDA 230: Reactive Systems
Honorary Members of the Board
- Kay Drey
- Atis Folkmanis ’62, Trustee Emeritus
- David Goodman ’69, Trustee Emeritus
- Terry O. Herndon ’57
- Frances Degen Horowitz ’54, Trustee Emerita
- Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton ’60
- Joyce Idema ’57, Trustee Emerita
- Jay W. Lorsch ’55, Trustee Emeritus
- Lee Morgan ’66, Trustee Emeritus
- Edward Richard ’66, Trustee Emeritus
- Barbara Slaner Winslow ’68, Trustee Emerita
- Malte von Matthiessen ’66, Trustee Emeritus
Documents
- Antioch College Corporation Code of Regulations October 2019
- Antioch College Form 990 Public Disclosure Report July 2015
- Bylaws of Antioch College Corporation 2014
- Antioch College Form 990 Public Disclosure Report July 2013–June 2014
- Antioch College Form 990 Public Disclosure Report July 2012–2013.
- Schedule for the October 19–21, 2012, Board of Trustees meeting in Yellow Springs
- Antioch College Form 990 Public Disclosure Report July 2011–June 2012
- Continuation Fund, Inc., Form 990 Public Disclosure Report July 2010–June 2011
- Articles of Incorporation
- 1023 Application for Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code for the Antioch College Corporation
- Federal Designation of 501(c)(3) Status for the Continuation Fund
- 1023 Application for Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code for the Antioch College Continuation Fund