Advancement of Public Action: Related Content
Field Work Term is Bennington College's annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work.
This photo contest brings those experiences to life. Students use #FieldWorkTerm to share photos of themselves making, working, and learning to tell the story of their unique work exploration over Field Work Term.
Daniel Michaelson was co-creator of Bennington College’s mediation curriculum, cofounder of a program to re-engage Bennington-area youth with their education, and a professional costume/set designer. He was one of a team of international collaborators in the creation of a play for peace building.
Borough president of the New York City borough of Manhattan who formerly served as a member of the New York City Council and as director of the Office of Federal Relations in the Dinkins administration, among her other positions in a long career of public service
Kelie Bowman is an artist and farmer with two decades of experience creating community through the arts.
Artist, performer, and AIDS activist whose work helped create the first effective drug protocols to combat the syndrome
Photograph © Walter Kurtz
John Limbert has had a fifty-year career as an academic, American diplomat, prisoner, and novelist. He first visited Iran in 1962 and has since lived and worked in nearly a dozen countries in the Middle East and Islamic Africa.
Divine Bradley is a futurist that has dedicated decades to reimagining the experience of school, communal spaces and creating transformational programming for the demographics they serve. A serial ideator and social entrepreneur that loves to dream BIG, explore the impossible and collaborate with people with prolific creativity, imagination and discipline, to produce ideas.
Casey Bohlen is a historian of the modern United States. His work focuses on the shifting historical relationship between religion, democratic engagement, and American public life.
Thom Loubet was a public radio producer at KUNM in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is also a touring musician and the executive director of a major children’s educational foundation—and brings all this experience to the classroom, where he teaches radio and podcast production.
Leading American philanthropist and fierce advocate for research into the causes and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Jesse McDougall is an author, a Co-Founder and Director of Regenerative Agriculture at Regenerative Food Network, Inc, and farmer at Studio Hill—a regenerative 4th-generation family farm in southwestern Vermont. He is also an holistic management accredited professional and a Savory Institute Hub Leader.
Farzana Wahidy is an award-winning Afghan documentary photographer best known for her photographs of women and girls from Afghanistan. She was the first female Afghan photographer to work with international media agencies. Wahidy has been documenting the lives of Afghan women for more than a decade, and she recently established the Afghanistan Photographers Association.
Erika Mijlin is a producer, editor, writer, and founding partner of the media production company Artifact Pictures.
Executive director of The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to improving the lives of patients and their families through nurse-led innovation, and a member of the board of directors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Composer, writer, and director who fashioned a unique style of socially engaged musical theatre
Photograph © Jack Mitchell (New York Times)
Burcu Seyben is a theatre theorist, playwright, actress, and author of Theatre and Multimedia (Habitus, 2016). She specializes in contemporary European and Turkish performances, and directors as well as theatre and politics.
Liz Ahn Toupin was one of the country's first Asian American college deans. Her career at Tufts spanned a tumultuous period of societal, educational and institutional upheaval.
Sal Randolph is an artist working between language and action, through performance, experimental publishing, and the creation of social spaces, at the intersection of attention, time, feeling, capital, and crisis.
Rotimi Suberu’s research on Nigerian government and politics and international relations have prompted invitations to consult for the Nigerian government, the World Bank, the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, and the Forum of Federations.
Karen Gross lives and works in Washington, DC where she focuses on educational policy, including the many issues affecting student success across the educational pipeline.
For over 35 years, Joe Donahue - the award-winning host of WAMC/ Northeast Public Radio’s The Roundtable - has been widely recognized for fostering insightful, thought-provoking conversation. Donahue offers his listeners some of the world's most fascinating people and subjects. He is a lifelong advocate of reading and writers and hosts the nationally syndicated, The Book Show.
Pilot who learned to fly during her freshman year at Bennington, graduated early to become a WASP in World War II, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2010
David Zicarelli '83 is a software designer and entrepreneur practicing in the area of artistic and organizational creativity.
Gillian Goddard is a systems thinker, community organizer, and chocolate maker who engages with food and agriculture as a means of instigating global change.
Peter Pagnucco is a mediator and trainer who works with private and public clients to address a variety of conflicts related to everything from business activities to land use to domestic relations.
Dr. Christopher Barsotti, MD, is the founding CEO of the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM). He is a community practice emergency medicine physician who serves patients in rural western Massachusetts, southern Vermont and upstate New York, and a certified 4-H youth rifle instructor.
Author of Gender Trouble, one of the most important works of philosophy and gender theory of the postmodern era
First United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues and former executive director of Global Rights