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Image of David Mears
Former Faculty

Currently a leader with the National Audubon Society in Vermont, David Mears is an environmental attorney with a career as an educator, advocate and public official.

Image of Dor Ben-Amotz
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.

Image of Spencer Cox
Alumni

Artist, performer, and AIDS activist whose work helped create the first effective drug protocols to combat the syndrome

Photograph © Walter Kurtz

Image of Robert Ransick
Former Faculty

Robert Ransick draws inspiration from the social and political world we live in, history, and the potential for a future that is better.

Image of Sal Randolph
Former Faculty

Sal Randolph is an artist working between language and action, through performance, experimental publishing, and the creation of social spaces, at the intersection of attention, time, feeling, capital, and crisis.

Image of Elinor Bacon
Alumni

Former deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Image of Brian Campion
Faculty

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

Image of Ilegvak
Former Faculty

Ilegvak is a Yup’ik culture bearer, climate and Tribal sovereignty advocate, and a 2022 United States Artists Fellow from Alaska. His hand-sewn visual practice repurpose skin from self-harvested traditional foods.

Image of Lydia Brassard
Former Faculty

Lydia Brassard is a public anthropologist and educator whose work grapples with public space, race, and racism in North America and the production of history.

Image of Alanna Irving
Former Faculty

Alanna Irving is an innovator and entrepreneur exploring bossless leadership, participatory open source software, cooperative governance, social enterprise, and collaborating with money, and co-authored the book Better Work Together.

Image of Elizabeth Pfister
Alumni

Pilot who learned to fly during her freshman year at Bennington, graduated early to become a WASP in World War II, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2010

John Hultgren
Faculty

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

Image of Mark Dunlea
Former Faculty
Mark Dunlea teaches climate advocacy. He helped divest the NYC and NYS public pension funds from fossil fuels. He also spent 35 years doing anti-poverty organizing on hunger, healthcare, and economic justice issues. 

 

Image of Jess Kutch
Alumni

2019 TED Fellow and organizing director of Change.org and Coworker.org, transforming the way workers in today’s economy organize.

Image of Marina Zurkow
Former Faculty

Media and participatory practice artist Marina Zurkow connects people to entrenched nature-culture tensions and environmental messes, offering humor and new ways of knowing, connecting, and feeling. 

Image of Andrea Bernstein
Former Faculty

Andrea Bernstein is a Peabody and duPont-Columbia award-winning investigative journalist, best-selling author of American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of Money and Power, and the host of the hit podcasts We Don't Talk About Leonard, Will Be Wild, and Trump, Inc. She worked in public radio for 25 years and most recently covered all five trials of Donald Trump or his company in New York for NPR.