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
Ren Acevedo '27

he/they

High School: Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical HS

Areas of Study: Theatre, Playwriting, Japanese

Recent Class: New Play Development Lab

 

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

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
Midad Alkhafaji
Midad Alkhafaji '28

she/her

High School: United World College Maastricht, Netherlands

Area of Study: Sustainable Architecture and Design

call admissionsinterns14@bennington.edu
Sana AlKhafaji
Sana Al Khafaji '29

she/her

High School: United World College East Africa

Areas of Study: Architecture and political economy

Recent Class: Urban Disasters

call admissionsinterns19@bennington.edu
Proteety Amiron
Proteety Amiron '29
Dhaka, Bangladesh

she/her

High School: BAF Shaheen College, Dhaka

Area of Study: Neuroscience, Psychology, Education, Linguistics.

Recent Class: Multilingualism and Cognition

 

call admissionsinterns12@bennington.edu
Sadie Burch
Sadie Burch '28

she/her

High School: Interlochen Arts Academy

Areas of Study: Creative Writing, SCT

 

 

call admissionsintern11@bennington.edu
Aidan Dillen
Aidan Dillen
Wareham, MA

he/him

High school: Wareham High School in Wareham, MA

Areas of Study: Playwriting, Acting and Costume Design

call admissionsinterns13@bennington.edu
Garret Gould
Garrett Gould
Louisiana

Any

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

Areas of Study: Philosophy and Theater

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

he/him

High School: New Orleans Creative Center for The Arts

Area of Study: BFA Dance Lab

 

call admissionsInterns24@bennington.edu
Shivani Hirata-Chandran
Shivani Hirata-Chandran '27

High School: Cherry Hill High School East

Areas of Study: Visual Art, Japanese, & Education

Recent Class: Bon Dance: A Cultural and Traditional Japanese Dance Experience

call admissionsinterns23@bennington.edu
Lauren Hunter-Venables
Lauren Hunter-Venables '29
Edinburgh, Scotland

she/her

High School: Drummond Community High School

Areas of Study: Film/Video, Theater, and Visual Arts

Favorite classes: Radio Plays: Creating Theatre for Radio and Podcast, Screenwriting Story Studio: Horror, Intermediate Video: The Question of the Document

 

call admissionsinterns10@bennington.edu
Juhee Kim
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
Annabelle Lisa
Annabelle Lisa '28
Belfast, Maine

she/they

Belfast Area High School

Areas of Study: Drama, Music, Photography

Favorite Classes: Advanced Improvisation: Game of the Scene, Viewpoints Groundwork, Photographs as Narratives

call admissionsinterns17@bennington.edu
Ariel Luangkhot
Ariel Luangkhot '28
Houston, TX

she/her

High School: George W. Carver Magnet High School for Applied Technology, Engineering, & the Arts

Areas of Study: Politics & Psychology

Recent Class: Needs, Wants & Economic Rights

call admissionsinterns21@bennington.edu
Nur Nigmatulin
Nur Nigmatulin '29
Almaty, Kazakhstan

High School: Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics

Area of Study: Political Science & Philosophy, Psychology, Design, French

Favorite Recent Class: APA 4213 Journalism And Democracy

 

call admissionsinterns30@bennington.edu
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Sami Rahman '29
Dhaka, Bangladesh

he/him

High School: Birshreshtha Noor Mohammad Public College

Areas of Study: Mathematics, Physics and Environmental Sciences

Favorite Classes: Environmental and Geological Field Methods, Beginning Guitar, Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning and Modelling. 

call admissionsinterns18@bennington.edu
Josh Samaniego
Josh Samaniego '29
Barre, Vermont

High school: Spaulding High School, Barre, Vermont

Area of Study: Political Science, Mathematics, Musical Performance

Favorite Recent classes: The Political Economy of Money, Political Ideologies in Action: American Conservatism, The F-Word: Confronting Fascism in a World on Fire

 

call admissionsinterns22@bennington.edu
Amaya Smith
Amaya Smith '27
New Orleans

she/her

High school: New Orleans Center For Creative Arts

Area of Study: BFA Dance Lab

Recent Class: Critical Dance Processes: Senior Thesis Workshop

call admissionsinterns25@bennington.edu
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Abigail Singh '27

she/her

High school: MESA Charter High School

Area of Study: Black Studies, Politics, Public Action

call admissionsInterns27@bennington.edu
Margarita Titarenko
Margarita Titarenko '27

she/her

High School: IES Luis Diego Cuscoy

Area of Study: Drama/Theater and French

call admissionsinterns5@bennington.edu

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updated: 6/11/26