Advancement of Public Action Faculty
![Image of David Bond](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/bond-david_320x230px.jpg?itok=9ZYexbuW)
David Bond works with communities besieged by the fossil fuel industry to develop a more transformative grasp of environmental justice for people, politics, and critical theory.
![Image of Brian Campion](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Campion_Brian_320x230px.jpg?itok=xnb_cKD6)
Brian Campion facilitates all programs and initiatives connected to state and federal policy; he also serves as a Vermont State Senator.
![John Hultgren](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/HultgrenJohn_320x230px.jpg?itok=nPgtbekq)
John Hultgren's work explores the theoretical and ideological foundations of environmental political struggles.
![Image of Yoko Inoue](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/InoueYoko_320x230px.jpg?itok=rF9OJyTK)
Yoko Inoue’s multidisciplinary art practice anthropologically examines complex relationships between people and objects, the commodification of culture, and the assimilation and transformation of cultural meaning and values. Using ceramic medium she explores the socio-political and economic implication of products and globalization.
![image of jonathan pitcher](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Pitcher_Jonathan%20_320x230.jpg?itok=MqpTDXId)
Jonathan Pitcher is a scholar of Latin American literature, philosophy, and history whose research interests exceed any one discipline: identity, exile, film, politics, travel, art, architectural ideology, puppetry, and the aftermath of the Boom, to name a few.
![Image of Ozge Savas](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/savas_320x230px.jpg?itok=fpkLEv73)
Özge Savaş is a critical and applied social psychologist. She works with historically and systemically disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and communities, combining decolonial and intersectional feminist theories in explaining how systems of oppression are maintained. She examines the role of stigma, stereotypes, and prejudice in intergroup conflict.
![Image of Eileen Scully](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/ScullyEileen_320x230px.jpg?itok=7c2MW-HM)
Eileen Scully is an award-winning scholar of American diplomacy and international history. Her recent work explores historical understandings of human trafficking and international customary law on the coming, going, and staying of destitute, physically disabled migrants.
![Image of Susan Sgorbati](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/SgorbatiSusan_320x230px.jpg?itok=e79NYFdB)
Susan Sgorbati is a professional mediator and educator whose creative research has led to collaboration across disciplines and borders as both an artist and a driver of social change.
![Image of Rotimi Suberu](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/SuberuRotimi_320x230px.jpg?itok=l-llOrp4)
Rotimi Suberu’s research on Nigerian government and politics and international relations have prompted invitations to consult for the Nigerian government, the World Bank, the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, and the Forum of Federations.
Visiting Faculty
![Image of Kelie Bowman](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/bowman-kelie_320x230px.jpg?itok=9Eh_aNGw)
Kelie Bowman is an artist and farmer with two decades of experience creating community through the arts.
![Image of Michael Cohen](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/cohenmichael_320x230px.jpg?itok=hyFQC3Wk)
Rabbi Michael Cohen, a longtime environmental activist, has written extensively on the impact of ecological issues on the Middle East peace process.
![Image of Alisa Del Tufo](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/DelTufo_Alisa_320x230px.jpg?itok=DO2-9xYi)
Alisa Del Tufo's career has been dedicated to making impact at the nexus of practice and policy; individual and community change; intellectual pursuit and activism with the goal of ending violence in the lives of women and girls addressing racism and other deep social challenges. She has founded three organizations: Sanctuary for Families, CONNECT, and Threshold Collaborative.
![Image of Alexis Elton](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Elton%2CAlexis_320x230px.jpg?itok=S1uygv2y)
Alexis Elton is an artist utilizing site-as-material forming connections with plants, soil, and other living beings. Her work is situated where art and agrarian systems meet to create ephemeral sensory encounters.
![Image of Judith Enck](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Enck_Judith_320x230.jpg?itok=8Uqj2_rO)
Judith Enck is senior fellow and visiting faculty member in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action. She is the President of Beyond Plastics and former EPA Regional Administrator, appointed by President Obama.
![Image of Mansour Farhang](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Farhang_Mansour_320x230px.jpg?itok=mz7ta-0p)
Mansour Farhang’s long career in international relations has included a diplomatic post and many distinguished research and teaching positions. He previously taught at Bennington for more than 30 years.
![Image of Andy Galindo](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Galindo%2C%20Andy_320x230.jpg?itok=gVoDew4z)
Andy Galindo is an international Human Rights Lawyer, working as an independent consultant. She has been teaching human rights and training human rights defenders, members of international and regional organizations and government officials from all over the world, in the use of international human rights mechanisms and strategic litigation.
![Image of Mohammad Sharif Jamal](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/sharif-jamal_320x230px.jpg?itok=zGTScsDM)
Sharif Jamal is a visual artist and archivist from Afghanistan. He focuses on preservation activities to prolong the life of archival records.
![Image of John Limbert](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/limbert-john_320x230px.jpg?itok=jiknr6KB)
John Limbert has had a fifty-year career as an academic, American diplomat, prisoner, and novelist. He first visited Iran in 1962 and has since lived and worked in nearly a dozen countries in the Middle East and Islamic Africa.
![Image of Lizah Makombore](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/makombore-lizah_320x230px.jpg?itok=7rWz0aVC)
Lizah Makombore has over ten years of experience working in the Non-governmental organization (NGO) sector, development sector, public finance institutions, and institutions of higher learning.
![Image of Vahidin Omanovic](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Omanovic%2C%20Vahidin_320x230.jpg?itok=hquCNztg)
Vahidin Omanovic is a peacebuilder born in Bosnia and from Herzegovina.
Instructor/Technician
![Image of Elæ Moss](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Moss%2CEl%C3%A6_320x230px_2.jpg?itok=IpZEfrtK)
Elæ Moss is a multimodal artist-researcher, curator, and facilitator designing speculative human, institutional and ecological systems through the iteration of open source strategies for social and structural change.
![Image of Farzana Wahidy](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Wahidy%2C%20Farzana_320x230px.jpg?itok=B9P5H2kn)
Farzana Wahidy is an award-winning Afghan documentary photographer best known for her photographs of women and girls from Afghanistan. She was the first female Afghan photographer to work with international media agencies. Wahidy has been documenting the lives of Afghan women for more than a decade, and she recently established the Afghanistan Photographers Association.