Margie King Bloch
B.A. Liberal Studies, 1997
M.A. Whole Systems Design — Organization Systems Renewal, 2000

Margie King Bloch was designing curriculum for a community leadership program when she came to Antioch to complete her bachelor's degree.

"My experience at Antioch was transformative," she explains. “Experiential education gives you the tools to begin integrating who you are with what you want to do in the world."

Her area of study in the bachelor degree completion program was transformational leadership, which then led her to an Antioch master's degree in whole systems design with a focus on servant leadership. Today, she works in fund development for the Leadership Institute of Seattle.

"I chose Antioch because I wanted to learn more about the changing face of leadership, and I wanted to do it in an experiential educational setting."

"Most of life seems to be about building the skills and capacities to work effectively with others to get things done. That's what I learned at Antioch."

In her first year in the B.A. program, Bloch experienced cancer for a second time. During six months of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation she says she missed only one class.

"I developed my voice as a writer and began to appreciate the gift of insight that cancer gave me. The faculty and my fellow students showed extraordinary care and support and I will always be grateful for that experience," she says.

Bloch sat on many city and organizational boards both before and after her Antioch experience. "Most of life seems to be about building the skills and capacities to work effectively with others to get things done. That's what I learned at Antioch," she says.

When she considers the benefit of liberal arts education at Antioch, Bloch describes how she developed her capacity as a systems thinker and integrated it into her philosophy of life.

"I have come to believe that, deep in the human soul, we recognize how meaning resides in the nature of our relationships to self, society and the planet," she says. "It is not enough for us to know how the pieces work. The real wisdom — the meaning — lies in how they relate."

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