Antioch Graduates
Making Change

Molly Schultz ’98
Major: Anthropology/Cultural Studies

“The simplest word is equity,” Molly Schultz ’98 said. Molly is the acting deputy director of the North Star Fund in New York City, a non-endowed foundation that makes grants to community based organizations working for social, political, and economic justice.

When the fund’s former director, Betty Kapetanakis ’74, died unexpectedly last summer, Molly stepped up to assume her responsibilities in a time of need. “Betty was such a wonderful, truly Antiochian person, and it was such a pleasure to work for her,” she said. Molly may have left the Antioch campus after graduation, but she certainly took with her a commitment to the principles and a connection to the people of her alma mater in Yellow Springs.

The North Star Fund was founded on the belief that the people who are most affected by injustice should be in control of the organizations working on their behalf. The board that allocates the funds is comprised completely of grassroots activists with €rst hand knowledge of the need for such support. They themselves identify the greatest needs, review the proposals, designate the grant money. “How Antioch is that?” Molly said.

Molly came to Antioch with a history of activism. At 16 she was working with an environmental youth action group €ghting outdoor nuclear waste storage in Minnesota. But when she started dialoguing on campus, she began to see an even greater problem with the human inequity among people of various economic and racial backgrounds. “Antioch taught me to listen to people who are experiencing the world as a place that doesn’t support them as a member of the community,” she said.

At North Star, Molly feels she can work effectively toward inclusiveness. “Here I can work very much the way in which I learned to work at Antioch, always thinking about who else needs to be at the table,” she said. “And ultimately fund some organizations whose work creates a more just and sustainable world.”

Join us in celebrating their pursuit of new venues:

• Doug Fischer ’92
• Nina Harawa ’92
• Dylan Wrynn ’92
• Alexander Stadtner ’00
• Rafael Torch ’02

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