Bennington Magazine

Bennington College alumni research, create, discover, publish, present, teach, exhibit, and earn countless honors. We are proud to showcase those we have learned about from news reports and alumni submissions here. While it is impossible to capture every accomplishment, we invite alumni to submit their news by emailing classnotes@bennington.edu. 

From narrative nonfiction at Bennington to a founding staff writer at Heatmap, Jeva Lange ’15 is telling the stories of our climate change-rattled world in ways that finally grab readers’ attention.

Souleymane Badolo’s people gave him dance, and dance gave him opportunities to learn, choreograph, and teach around the world. Now, he is using his influence to provide greater access to a crucial resource: water.

By Charlie Nadler

An interdisciplinary approach is at the heart of the Bennington experience for many students and faculty. On an ordinary day, you could pass a student in front of Dickinson who is studying quantum computing and ceramics while on your way to CAPA to meet with a faculty member passionate about political science and drama. What’s lesser known is the number of staff who also subscribe to this hyphenate ethos. This campus teems with employees who engage in a plethora of outside professional work that both catalyze and utilize their on-campus identities. 

The profiles here reveal how they help to make and shape our amazing staff here while making change and shaping culture elsewhere.

Bennington College celebrates the extraordinary life of painter Cora Cohen ’64. She passed away in Brooklyn on June 22, 2023.