Admissions Interns

Meet the Admissions Interns! To connect with an intern, click the mail icon to send an email.

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Ren Acevedo '27
Fairhaven, MA

she/they

High School: Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School

Areas of study: Drama, Music, Japanese

Favorite classes: Intermediate Voice, Ghost Stories: Playwriting, Beat by Beat Script Interpretation

call admissionsinterns8@bennington.edu
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Mohamed Ahmed '27
Hargeisa, Somalia

he/him

High School: La Lumiere School, Abaarso School of Science and Technology

Areas of study: Computer Science, Math, Data Analytics

call admissionsinterns29@bennington.edu
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Apurba Alamgir '25
Dhaka, Bangladesh

she/her

High School: Adamjee Cantonment College

Areas of study: Data Science, Public Health & Public Policy

Favorite class: Iran: A Theocracy in Crisis, Psychedelics: Mind and Brain, Decolonizing AI

call admissionsinterns18@bennington.edu
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Midad Alkhafaji '28
Baghdad, Iraq

she/her

High School: UWC Maastricht

Areas of study: Sustainable Architecture, Environmental Studies

call admissionsinterns14@bennington.edu
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Nora Beer '26
Brooklyn, NY

High School: 

Areas of study: Anthropology, Food Studies

Favorite classes: Group Tutorial: The Housing Crisis, Love in the Time of War

call admissionsinterns2@bennington.edu
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Sadie Burch '28
Myrtle Beach, SC

she/her

High School: Interlochen Arts Academy

Areas of study: Creative Writing; Society, Culture, and Thought; Music

Favorite classes: Christian and Sufi Mystics, Dynamic Anatomy, Reading and Writing Poetry

call admissionsinterns11@bennington.edu
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Miriam Campbell '26
Norfolk, England

she/they

High School: Springwood High School

Areas of study: Drama, Music

Favorite classes: Double Exposure, Gospel Music: Share the Joy, Introduction to Sound Recording and Mixing

call admissionsinterns22@bennington.edu
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Julia Chow '26
Hong Kong

she/her

High School: United World College of Adriatic, Italy

Areas of study: Art History, Architecture, Japanese

call admissionsinterns20@bennington.edu
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Kalea Cockrum '28
San Francisco, CA

High School: 

Areas of study: Art History, Curatorial Studies

Favorite classes: Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions; Toward a Rigorous Art History, Morning Dance, Queer French

call AdmissionsInterns26@bennington.edu
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Aidan Dillen '28
Wareham, MA

he/him

High School: Wareham High School

Areas of study: Drama, History

Favorite classes: The Actor's Instrument, Lost and Found in the 19th Century, History of Theatre, Ghost Stories

call admissionsinterns13@bennington.edu
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Abe Dreher '26
Peterborough, NH

he/him

High School: ConVal High School

Areas of study: Social & Community Engagement, Spanish 

Favorite classes: Ganas, Surrealism in Latin America: Origins and Reception, Reading and Writing Fiction: ESLit, Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America, Peacebuilding Training and Action

 

call admissionsinterns17@bennington.edu
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Garrett Gould '27
Sulphur, LA

he/they

High School: Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts

Areas of study: Philosophy, Drama

call admissionsinterns4@bennington.edu
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Daniel Gray '27
New Orleans, LA

he/him

High School: New Orleans Center For Creative Arts

Areas of study: BFA Dance Lab

Favorite class: Studio Practice: Combined Forms, Performance Pedagogies of Dance, Critical Dance Studies, Critical Dance Processes: Research Studies

call AdmissionsInterns24@bennington.edu
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Kalea Jafer '28

she/her

High School: Philip and Sala Burton High School

Areas of study: Art History, Curatorial Studies

call admissionsinterns26@bennington.edu
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Juhee Kim '29
São Paulo, Brazil

she/her

High School: Avenues the World School São Paulo

Areas of study: Political Science, Economics, Conflict Studies

call admissionsinterns15@bennington.edu
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Úrsula Calle Pinto '26
Arequipa, Perú

she/they

High School: United World College Changshu

Areas of study: Society, Culture, and Thought; Dance; Public Action

Favorite classes: Performance as Radicalism in Practice, Anthropology of the Body

call admissionsinterns3@bennington.edu
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Megan Reid '26
Aloha, OR

she/her

High School: Aloha High School

Areas of study: Drama, Film, Dance, Photography

Favorite classes: Screenwriting: The Story Studio, Projects in Video, The Actor's Instrument

call admissionsinterns7@bennington.edu
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Riley Seidel '26
Longview, TX

High School: Pine Tree High School

Areas of study: Literature, Creative Writing

call admissionsinterns6@bennington.edu
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Shashvat Shah '26
Ciudad Del Este, Paraguay

he/him

High School: Colegio Gimnasio del Saber

Areas of study: Biology, Data Science

Favorite classes: Genome Jumpstart, Cell Biology, Drumming as a Language, Chocolat

call admissionsinterns1@bennington.edu
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Abigail Singh '27

she/her

High School: MESA Charter High School

Areas of study: Black Studies, Politics, Public Action

call admissionsinterns27@bennington.edu
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Amaya Smith '27
New Orleans, LA

she/her

High School: New Orleans Center For Creative Arts

Areas of study: BFA Dance Lab

Favorite classes: Performance Pedagogies of Dance, TMD Practice + Process, Sankofa & Memory Archiving Critical Dance Processes

call admissionsinterns25@bennington.edu
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Margarita Titarenko '27
Riga, Latvia

she/her

High School: IES Luis Diego Cuscoy

Areas of study: Drama, French

Favorite classes: Directing I, Doubleness/Offstage, Créatrices, Stage Management, Riffing with Shakespeare and His Doubles

call admissionsinterns5@bennington.edu
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Mariana Suárez Torres '27
Bogotá, Colombia

High School: UWC Mostar

Areas of study: Music, Japanese, Drama

Favorite classes: Of Sound and Nature, Double Exposure, Theatre Games & Improvisation, Traditional West African Dance, Ethnomusicology, Middle Eastern Ensemble

call admissionsinterns28@bennington.edu

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updated: 10/8/2025