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Image of Doug Bauer Doug Bauer Retires from Bennington

Retiring faculty member Doug Bauer on teaching and time at Bennington by Keegan Ead and Madeline Cole ’16

Every Crisis Is a Crucible image Every Crisis Is a Crucible

After an accident left him paralyzed at 42, August de los Reyes ’95, head of research and design at Pinterest, gained a valuable perspective that would reorient the focus of his work and challenge the paradigms of 21st-century design. By Brian Davidson

Behind the Struggle to Free South Africa article image of Nelson Mandela Behind the Struggle to Free South Africa

International civil rights lawyer Gay Johnson McDougall ’69 and the story behind what it took to free South Africa from apartheid rule. By Jeva Lange ’15

From Civil Rights to Civil Conversations article image of Gail Evans From Civil Rights to Civil Conversations

Gail Hirschorn Evans ’63 worked at the White House in the Office of the Special Counsel to the President during the Lyndon Johnson administration and was instrumental in the creation of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1965 Civil Rights Act. Decades later she is still challenging our biases. By Jeva Lange ’15

When the World Comes to Bennington img When the World Comes to Bennington

The worlds of business, technology, and politics consult with Bennington by Lise (Johnson) Miller ’01