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
he/they
High School: Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical HS
Areas of Study: Theatre, Playwriting, Japanese
Recent Class: New Play Development Lab
Mohamed Ahmed '27
he/him
High School: La Lumiere School, Abaarso School of Science and Technology
Areas of Study: Computer Science, Math, Data Analytics
Midad Alkhafaji '28
she/her
High School: United World College Maastricht, Netherlands
Area of Study: Sustainable Architecture and Design
Sana Al Khafaji '29
she/her
High School: United World College East Africa
Areas of Study: Architecture and political economy
Recent Class: Urban Disasters
Proteety Amiron '29
she/her
High School: BAF Shaheen College, Dhaka
Area of Study: Neuroscience, Psychology, Education, Linguistics.
Recent Class: Multilingualism and Cognition
Aidan Dillen
he/him
High school: Wareham High School in Wareham, MA
Areas of Study: Playwriting, Acting and Costume Design
Garrett Gould
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High School: Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
Areas of Study: Philosophy and Theater
Daniel Gray '27
he/him
High School: New Orleans Creative Center for The Arts
Area of Study: BFA Dance Lab
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
Lauren Hunter-Venables '29
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
Juhee Kim '29
she/her
High School: Avenues the World School São Paulo
Areas of Study: Political Science, Economics, Conflict Studies
Annabelle Lisa '28
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
Ariel Luangkhot '28
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
Nur Nigmatulin '29
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
Sami Rahman '29
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.
Josh Samaniego '29
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
Amaya Smith '27
she/her
High school: New Orleans Center For Creative Arts
Area of Study: BFA Dance Lab
Recent Class: Critical Dance Processes: Senior Thesis Workshop
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updated: 6/11/26