CAPA Faculty

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Associate Director, Center for the Advancement of Public Action

David Bond works with communities besieged by the fossil fuel industry to develop a more transformative grasp of environmental justice for people, politics, and critical theory.

email dbond@bennington.edu
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Director of Public Policy Programs in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action

Former Vermont State Senator, Brian Campion facilitates all programs and initiatives at Bennington connected to state and federal policy.

email bcampion@bennington.edu
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President, Beyond Plastics Program

Judith Enck is a senior fellow and faculty member in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action. She is the President of Beyond Plastics and former EPA Regional Administrator, appointed by President Obama. Judith is co author of the book The Problem with Plastic, published by The New Press in December 2025.

email judithenck@bennington.edu
John Hultgren

John Hultgren's work explores the theoretical and ideological foundations of environmental political struggles.

email johnhultgren@bennington.edu
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Yoko Inoue’s multidisciplinary art practice anthropologically examines complex relationships between people and objects, the commodification of culture, and the assimilation and transformation of cultural meaning and values. Using ceramic medium she explores the socio-political and economic implication of products and globalization.

email yinoue@bennington.edu
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Jonathan Pitcher is a scholar of Latin American literature, philosophy, and history whose research interests exceed any one discipline: identity, exile, film, politics, travel, art, architectural ideology, puppetry, and the aftermath of the Boom, to name a few.

email jpitcher@bennington.edu
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Director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action and Interim Director of the MFA in Public Action

Susan Sgorbati is a professional mediator and educator whose creative research has led to collaboration across disciplines and borders as both an artist and a driver of social change.

email sgorbati@bennington.edu
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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.

email rsuberu@bennington.edu

Visiting Faculty

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Visiting Faculty

Dor Ben-Amotz '76 obtained a PhD in Physical Chemistry from U.C. Berkeley and was a professor at Purdue University for over 30 years. In addition to his scientific interests, he is a musician and student of the human predicament.

email dorbenamotz@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Kelie Bowman is an artist and farmer with two decades of experience creating community through the arts.

email keliebowman@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Bailey Fox '21 (they) is a restorative justice practitioner.

email baileyfox@bennington.edu
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Guest Faculty

Andy Galindo is an international Human Rights Lawyer, working as an independent consultant. She has been teaching human rights and training human rights defenders, members of international and regional organizations and government officials from all over the world, in the use of international human rights mechanisms and strategic litigation.

email andreagalindo@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

sTo Len is a genre fluid artist based in NY whose work has centered on embedded collaborations with environmentally abused landscapes, multi-species communities, and municipal agencies such as the NY Department of Sanitation.

email stolen@bennington.edu
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Guest Faculty

Vahidin Omanovic is a peacebuilder born in Bosnia and from Herzegovina.

 

 

email vahidinomanovic@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Megan Wolff is a public health practitioner and a subject matter expert on plastics and human health.

email meganwolff2@bennington.edu

Instructor/Technician

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MFA Fellow

Sharif Jamal is a visual artist and archivist from Afghanistan. He focuses on preservation activities to prolong the life of archival records.

email mohammadsharifjamal@bennington.edu
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MFA Fellow

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. 

email farzanawahidy1@bennington.edu

Emerita/Emeritus Faculty

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Faculty Emerita

Eileen Scully is an award-winning scholar of American diplomacy and international history. Her recent work explores historical understandings of human trafficking and international customary law on the coming, going, and staying of destitute, physically disabled migrants.

email escully@bennington.edu