Alumni News

Jacqueline Melbourne Brown Llewellyn ’51 and Oak Bluffs

Best selling author Michael Pollan '76 spoke to The New York Times about his forthcoming book A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness, which will be published by Penguin Press on February 24.

Teresa Booth Brown ’85 calls herself a Possibilitist. It’s a way of thinking and working that begins with simple but expansive questions: What can this be? What can we do with what we have right here? What’s the potential of this or that? That orientation toward openness has shaped her life as an artist and educator since she “ran away” to Bennington.

After more than seventy years, Trustee and successful business person Charlene Schwartz ’54 is still trying to bring the Bennington College magic that shaped her life to others.

Thomas Miles, a graduate of Bennington College's Prison Education Initiative at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, wrote about his experience earning his associate's degree while incarcerated.