This is something truly spectacular about relationships—that we can make something together that we wouldn’t have made on our own. -Sarah Steinke MACP ’19 Curious about alumni partnerships, Jocelyn Skillman, as Supervisor of Alumni Outreach, recently had the opportunity to interview Mary DeJong, MATC ‘17 and Sarah Steinke, MACP ‘19. Together these two alumni bring […]
The Seattle School has reserved a portion of its public space on both the second and third floors to display and honor art created by students, staff, faculty, and alumni, as well as artists from the greater Seattle area. This fall, collages created by Tara Hubbard MATC ’22 are featured in the second-floor Commons area […]
On July 1, 2022, President J. Derek McNeil welcomed Resmaa Menakem in Seattle on tour for his newest book, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning. Author, therapist, and licensed clinical social worker, Resmaa Menakem specializes in the healing of racialized trauma and also advocates for Somatic […]
At The Seattle School, (S)ending is a season of events and conversations supporting graduating students in their final year. During this transition process, students are invited to thoughtfully engage with their own story, examining both vocational and personal growth and plans. Starting in the fall term, the Office of Students and Alumni (OSA) provides opportunities […]
I can still see the Big Dipper when I wake early enough. The city’s din of lights are quiet and there is a silence with its own kind of pre-dawn chorus. Even in the aurora of my urban context, I encounter the matins of a howling pack of Coyotes; the low honking of a gaggle […]
Technology has advanced rapidly in the last few years, and now in a pandemic, we are more reliant on technology to study, work, communicate, and form relationships than ever before. Though the purpose of technology is to make things simpler and more convenient, it also opens the door to questions around ethics, morality, mental health, […]
When the pandemic reached our shores in early 2020, promises of time spent at home and opportunities for self-betterment were prevalent. Diets, home workouts, meditation protocols, and Bible verses were forwarded and then forwarded again. Fast forward 6+ months and the tenor of conversations have shifted. Disaster models now predict high levels of anxiety, depression, […]
One of our alumnae, Lisa Etter-Carlson (MATC ‘11), is the co-founder of Aurora Commons, a “neighborhood living room” (day shelter) in Seattle. Here, she calls us to see how the COVID-19 pandemic exposes systemic racism, poverty, and the criminalization of poverty—particularly among the unhoused. As this Pandemic has spread, it has exposed and exploited the […]
As a mostly able-body heterosexual, middle-class white cisgender male, my life oozes with privilege. I am acquainted with the sanctimonious anger of Brett Kavanaugh, the smug sexism of Mark Driscoll, the pompous arrogance of Donald Trump, the assumption-rightness of John Piper, and the murderous racism of Derek Chauvin. Yet, Jesus indicates that with God’s help, […]
“But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion.” -Audrey Lorde in Sister Outsider For the past nine years, I have the privilege of teaching Being the Word on the Street: Developing Intercultural Competency. […]
Mississippi. M-i-crooked letter crooked letter-i-crooked letter crooked letter-i-humpback humpback i. We all know it spells Mississippi. Mississippi is a state in the Deep South, flanked by other southern states, but different than Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana. I think uglier in their hate, savagery, viciousness, murderousness. I know this Mississippi, and I am terrified. The […]
“Moonias! Moonias!” (“White Man! White Man”) the children screeched as I stood outside their home on the Maskwacis First Nations Reservation. As a Community Social Worker, I had been summoned to investigate a child abuse allegation. I was twenty-two years old and it had never occurred to me that the color of my skin was […]