Commencement 2024
Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio
Class of 2024
Saturday, June 22, 2024
at 10:00 a.m.
Photos
View the Commencement 2024 Rehearsal photos and Commencement and Brunch photos.
Antioch College’s 2024 Commencement will be held at the Foundry Theater, Saturday, June 22, @ 10:00 AM. This is an opportunity to celebrate our graduates, their accomplishments, their family and friends, and the impact they will have in the world.
We encourage guests to park in our campus lots (Olive Kettering/Wellness Lot & Union Lot and/or Livermore Street). There is limited parking at the Foundry Lot by parking pass only. For those with mobility needs, please request accommodations and a parking pass from Anita Brown (abrown@antiochcollege.edu)
The Commencement Ceremony will feature a Antioch procession with musical accompaniment from the World House Choir, a speaking program presided by the President, the Provost, Chair of the Board of Trustees and featuring remarks from, guest speaker Marcie Rendon, and four graduating students, followed by the conferral of degrees and alumni welcome. The ceremony will conclude with additional music from World House Choir as a grand procession with our newly minted graduates ensues to the Main Lawn steps of Antioch Hall for an official class photo.
Guests may join the procession from the Foundry Theater to the Mound Ceremony and reception. Or, those with mobility needs that were permitted to park in Foundry Lot may wish to move their cars and park in the Student Union Parking Lot. There will be about a 20 minute break between the conclusion of Commencement and the Mound Ceremony.
After the Mound Ceremony (north of Antioch Hall) guests are then invited to join for a reception at the Herndon Gallery in South Hall where Colloquia Senior Projects will be on display for all to view and enjoy.
2024 Antioch College Commencement Program
About Speaker Marcie R. Rendon
Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet, and freelance writer. As a community arts activist, Rendon supports other native artists / writers / creators to pursue their art. Rendon is an award-winning author of a fresh new Cash Blackbear murder mystery series. She has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works.
2024 will see the release of Rendon’s first poetry book, Anishinaabe Songs for the New Millennium from UofM Press; a new stand-alone crime novel, Where They Last Saw Her from Penquin/Random, and Stitches of Tradition, a children’s picture book from Heartdrum.
As the creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, Rendon’s script, Sweet Revenge, had a sold out staged reading at the Jungle Theater, March 2024. She has also curated community created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists, which premiered on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television), June 2019.
Rendon was honored with the 2020 McKnight Artist of the Year award, and was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN in 2018. Rendon and Diego Vazquez received a 2017 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with women incarcerated in county jails.
Student Speakers
Adrian G. Colborn is a dedicated college student who has spent the last four years of college actively serving in various functions of community government and on varied committees, seeking to provide a vital student perspective in decision-making processes. Alongside their academic pursuits, Adrian holds positions on the Boards of two non-profit organizations, Scrutineers and Signals from the Grassroots. Their commitment to education, community outreach, and civil rights work is seen through their involvement in promoting voting rights and election transparency among young people alongside working to connect global youth to professional and educational opportunities internationally.
Throughout their time at Antioch College, Adrian became deeply concerned with the state of education and civil liberties and now hopes to work towards cultivating a better understanding of how alternative approaches to social organization can help achieve better outcomes for the next generation. Adrian’s dedication to fostering dialogue and inclusivity aligns with their vision for a more transparent and equitable future. They intend to continue their work in education and civil rights advocacy beyond college, aiming to make a lasting difference through their work.
Ashley LocGoddess Coleman is a black, queer documentary filmmaker from Dayton, Ohio. She brings a unique blend of experiences to her storytelling craft. With a background encompassing 19 years in Corporate America, and an Associate’s degree from the International College of Broadcasting in 2020. She is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree focusing on Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Practice at Antioch College. During her time at Antioch, Ashley has lived her definition of community; love in action. She believes that our words and actions should reflect care and concern for those that we are in community with. She has a firm belief that community is about survival, and everyone has something to bring to the table. Ashley has shown up for the Antioch community as a Student Pulse Worker, Student Life Assistant, Media Lab Coordinator, and Community Council member all while maintaining a spot on the Dean’s List. Ashley is on a mission to breathe life into narratives that resonate across generations. Through her documentary work, Ashley seeks to unearth the authentic stories of women and marginalized individuals, aiming to shed light on their rightful place in history. Her ultimate goal is to provoke thought, instigate change, and redefine the prevailing paradigms of equality and truth.
My name is Erina McGuire and I am graduating with a self-design degree in Developmental Psychology and the Arts. My four years here have been filled with ups and downs, late nights spent crying over projects or laughing with friends, and I enjoyed nearly every experience that I got to have here at Antioch College. From being Chair of ComCil my first year to being an RA in my final two years, I enjoyed the work that I got to participate in. I hope to take my experiences from my co-ops, classes and community and apply them to graduate school and further into my dream career of an adolescent art therapist.
Mercy Viola is a Black and Indigenous cultural worker, memory worker, educator, orator, writer, dancer, singer, community strategist, performance artist, visual artist and water protector from Brooklyn, NY. Mercy is passionate about land sovereignty, Black and Indigenous cultural technologies and healing intergenerational trauma. During her time at Antioch, Mercy has worked as the Black and Indigenous Arts And Cultural Coordinator and the Black Queer Student Union Coordinator at the Coretta Scott King Center. Mercy has also volunteered at the Antioch Farm, The Native Apothecary Garden and is a current board member of the BIPOC Food and Farming Network.
Mercy has performed African dance and poetry at the Yellow Springs Juneteenth celebration and has been featured as an artist in a fotofocus biennial art show “Flourishing” at the Herndon Gallery. In Mercy’s senior year she presented a solo art exhibition artwork with liberatory interactive programming. As an educator and artivist, Mercy uses interdisciplinary arts, interactive performance, music and somatic based activities to address systemic oppression.
Mercy has been community organizing, teaching and developing curriculum for over 10 years as well as speaking on panels, rallies, conferences and marches for direct actions, grassroot organizations, nonprofits and schools. Mercy comes from a long line of wise women and elders from North and South Carolina, Nigeria, Virginia, Georgia, Jamaica and Brooklyn. Mercy is based in Brooklyn, New York where they will also plant seeds of rebirth, imagination and the possibility of healing our relationships to ourselves, each other and the earth.
Map & Directions
Getting to Antioch College
The most convenient airport to Yellow Springs is the Dayton International Airport, which is 25 miles away. The Columbus Airport is roughly 60 miles away.
- Take exit 52A off Interstate 70 and head south on Route 68 toward Xenia and Yellow Springs. About seven miles down the road, you will enter Yellow Springs. Route 68 then becomes Xenia Avenue, the main street through Yellow Springs.
- Proceed through downtown Yellow Springs and turn left at Center College St.
- Center College St. will dead end at Livermore St. and you will see the College campus. Parking is available along Livermore and in other designated areas on campus.
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“I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann, first president of Antioch College to the first graduating class