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Kristi Ketchum ‘99
By Horace | August 7, 2007
From the moment I walked onto the Antioch College campus, to the day that I die, I will have worked towards Horace Mann’s mandate to the Antioch community. While working in the Women’s Center in the summer of ’96, I coordinated a 5 day mass protest of Operation Rescue, a vehement anti-choice organization. Over 50 Antiochians turned out daily to protest, hold vigil, and organize against the clinic barricades and media propaganda campaigns. As a result, I was awarded a 2006 Michael Schwerner Activist Award for my efforts to combat Operation Rescue and other the anti-choice zealots who descended upon our community.
Since I graduated in 1999, I have worked hard to fight my victory for humanity. Whether I was organizing low-wage workers for the AFL-CIO, tutoring non-native English Speakers, helping homeless teenagers transition from the streets to self-sufficiency, I have dedicated myself to the fight for social justice. I am currently in graduate school, working on my Masters of Social Work with a focus on Gerontology; without the passion and drive I honed at Antioch, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Kristi Ketchum
Class of 99’
Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies: Women’s Studies
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