Alumni News
Recent Graduate Karina Gonzalez Perez ’25 Empowers Youth Through Emotional LearningKarina Gonzalez Perez ’25, front center, holding book
Bennington College caught up with Karina Gonzalez Perez ’25, now a Research Coordinator at The New School’s Center for Global Mental Health in New York City. In this conversation, Karina reflects on her impactful work helping youth build emotional awareness through the EASE program and how her studies in psychology, education, and community building at Bennington contributed to her success so far.
On The Uses of Disenchantmentbeing MFA '23, the artist formerly known as Kriss Mincey, is making things—movement, writing, audio, archives and theory—and interpreting natal charts, in service of a world where people feel equipped to relate. She gave this interview around the launch of her imprint, TermsOfCare.com. She is co-writing a new play Charmpass in collaboration with Baltimore artists and Inheritance Theatre Project. It's on stage May 2 and 3.
A Next Chapter in Historic HospitalityRafe Churchill '91 discusses his latest venture, Place in Mind, a hotelier dedicated to resurrecting historically unique properties that recall a life well lived in a place well loved.
Small Classes, Big Research: Amanda Bacon ’19’s Bennington Education Fuels a Career in Particle PhysicsAmanda Bacon ’19 came to Bennington from Riverside, California, knowing that she wanted to be an astrophysicist. But more than that, she knew physics and astronomy classes at large universities could have hundreds of students. “I wanted to be able to take my education into my own hands and not be a number,” she said on March 27 during a return visit to Bennington to share her current research as a PhD candidate in particle physics at the University of Pennsylvania.
April Alumni Perspectives: Shay Totten '91Learn more about how to reconnect with fellow alumni in the Bay Area and in North Bennington this spring.