Admissions Interns
Meet our Admissions Interns! Our interns are current Bennington students who are happy to share what life here is really like. Send them an email, or follow along on our student-run TikTok for an inside look at campus life.
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Ren Acevedo '27
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
Mohamed Ahmed '27
he/him
High School: La Lumiere School, Abaarso School of Science and Technology
Areas of study: Computer Science, Math, Data Analytics
Apurba Alamgir '25
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
Midad Alkhafaji '28
she/her
High School: UWC Maastricht
Areas of study: Sustainable Architecture, Environmental Studies
Nora Beer '26
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Areas of study: Anthropology, Food Studies
Favorite classes: Group Tutorial: The Housing Crisis, Love in the Time of War
Sadie Burch '28
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
Miriam Campbell '26
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
Julia Chow '26
she/her
High School: United World College of Adriatic, Italy
Areas of study: Art History, Architecture, Japanese
Kalea Cockrum '28
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Areas of study: Art History, Curatorial Studies
Favorite classes: Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions; Toward a Rigorous Art History, Morning Dance, Queer French
Aidan Dillen '28
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
Abe Dreher '26
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
Garrett Gould '27
he/they
High School: Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
Areas of study: Philosophy, Drama
Daniel Gray '27
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
Kalea Jafer '28
she/her
High School: Philip and Sala Burton High School
Areas of study: Art History, Curatorial Studies
Juhee Kim '29
she/her
High School: Avenues the World School São Paulo
Areas of study: Political Science, Economics, Conflict Studies
Úrsula Calle Pinto '26
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
Megan Reid '26
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
Riley Seidel '26
High School: Pine Tree High School
Areas of study: Literature, Creative Writing
Shashvat Shah '26
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
Abigail Singh '27
she/her
High School: MESA Charter High School
Areas of study: Black Studies, Politics, Public Action
Amaya Smith '27
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
Margarita Titarenko '27
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
Mariana Suárez Torres '27
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
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updated: 10/8/2025