Advancement of Public Action: Related Content
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The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) has honored Bennington's Quantum Leap program with the Vermont State Merit Award—one of six state merit awards given annually as part of the New England Higher Education Excellence Awards.
![Ahmad Yassir](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/ahmad.yassir%206.jpg?itok=coDUQdbB)
Field Work Term is Bennington College's annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work.
This photo contest brings those experiences to life. Students use #FieldWorkTerm to share photos of themselves making, working, and learning to tell the story of their unique work exploration over Field Work Term.
![Image of Jennifer Mieres](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Mieres_Jennifer_640x460.jpg?itok=kAoNWi_4)
Cardiologist and advocate for women’s health, heart disease prevention, and diversity in healthcare.
![Image of Jess Kutch](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Kutch_Jess_640x460.jpg?itok=sXDqknGH)
2019 TED Fellow and organizing director of Change.org and Coworker.org, transforming the way workers in today’s economy organize.
![Image of Mohammad Sharif Jamal](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/sharif-jamal_320x230px.jpg?itok=GNgbH2lX)
Sharif Jamal is a visual artist and archivist from Afghanistan. He focuses on preservation activities to prolong the life of archival records.
![Image of Eileen Scully](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/ScullyEileen_320x230px.jpg?itok=TlUI96rt)
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 Victoria Sammartino](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Sammartino_Victoria_640x460.jpg?itok=3cjMOVha)
Founder of Voices UnBroken, a nonprofit dedicated to giving vulnerable young people opportunity for creative self-expression.
![Image of Caroline Woolard](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Woolard_Caroline_320x230_2.jpg?itok=1sAaNjAR)
Caroline Woolard MFA '20 makes objects and systems at the intersection of art, technology, and the economy.
![Image of Lauren Ruffin](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Ruffin%2C%20Lauren_320x230.jpg?itok=_ZCAofF3)
Lauren Ruffin is a thinker, designer, and leader interested in building strong, sustainable, anti-racist systems and organizations. She's interested in exploring how we can leverage new technologies to combat racial and economic injustice.
![Image of Ilegvak](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/ilegvak_320x230px.jpg?itok=9XhZ5qQw)
Ilegvak is a Yup’ik culture bearer, climate and Tribal sovereignty advocate, and a 2022 United States Artists Fellow from Alaska. His hand-sewn visual practice repurpose skin from self-harvested traditional foods.
![Image of Jon Isherwood](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/IsherwoodJon_320x230px.jpg?itok=5fIN_xxg)
Jon Isherwood is a sculptor who has pioneered high-tech CNC technologies, led international projects, and designed opportunities to investigate the sites where the intellectual and physical become visually entangled.
![Image of Ousseynou Diome](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Diome_Ousseynou_640x460.jpg?itok=HNiNPSaJ)
Called a “creative disruptor” in the field of agricultural finance by Forbes and currently pursuing an MBA at Stanford University.
![Image of David Mears](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Mears_David_320x230px.jpg?itok=5f9W-SYz)
Currently a leader with the National Audubon Society in Vermont, David Mears is an environmental attorney with a career as an educator, advocate and public official.
![Image of Yoko Inoue](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/InoueYoko_320x230px.jpg?itok=ZQhsnjfV)
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 Kay Crawford Murray](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Murray_Kay_640x460.jpg?itok=qqOc2aSh)
Trailblazing attorney who has spent a career working to highlight issues of gender bias in the legal profession.
![Image of Andrea Dworkin; Photo: John Cavanaugh](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Dworkin_Andrea_640x460.jpg?itok=FM8uNzml)
Feminist writer whose work was a lightning rod for the debate on pornography and censorship in the United States
Photo: John Cavanaugh
![Image of Steven Hail](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/steven-hail_320x230px.jpg?itok=eAEcJRkD)
Steven Hail is an adjunct associate professor at Torrens University Australia with interests in modern money theory and ecological economics. He has made a transition from training central bankers to teaching and writing about the economics of well-being, environmental sustainability, and social justice.
![Image of Susan Sgorbati](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/SgorbatiSusan_320x230px.jpg?itok=xD9ZK4SU)
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 Ellen Taussig](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Taussig_Ellen_640x460.jpg?itok=gr857pWj)
Founder and former head of school of the Northwest School who has been recognized as a Changemaker by Global Washington for her current work as executive director of the International Leadership Academy of Ethiopia
![Image of Ben Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Hall_Ben_320x230px.jpg?itok=Le9XWeBw)
Ben Hall ’04 is a chef/activist/artist based in Detroit. Hall’s work revolves around the forms community takes. Particularly at the Russell Street Deli, a 30-year-old heritage restaurant in Detroit’s "Eastern Market", which Hall owns and operates as a long-term sited project dealing with labor structures, how capital routes itself, and hierarchical power structures.
![Image of Kenneth Bailey](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Bailey%2C%20Kenneth_320x230.jpg?itok=DPi0LYZV)
Kenneth Bailey's work focuses on public-making: inviting artists, academics and activists to imagine new public infrastructures, habits and atmospheres as a strategy for social change.
![Image of Vivian Nixon](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Nixon%2C%20Vivian_320x230_0.jpg?itok=xQvMcMc1)
Vivian Nixon is a writer and poet. She has been writing about social justice in Newsmax, USA Today, New York Times, The Hill, and San Francisco Bee and elsewhere since 2004. A Pen America Justice Writing Fellow, Nixon holds an MFA, from Columbia University School of Arts and is Executive Director of College & Community Fellowship. She recently co-edited, What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System (The New Press).
![Image of Daniel Michaelson](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/MichaelsonDanny_320x230px.jpg?itok=-bJSqUIc)
Daniel Michaelson was co-creator of Bennington College’s mediation curriculum, cofounder of a program to re-engage Bennington-area youth with their education, and a professional costume/set designer. He was one of a team of international collaborators in the creation of a play for peace building.
![Image of Gale Brewer](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Brewer_Gale_640x460.jpg?itok=UBQiVBuz)
Borough president of the New York City borough of Manhattan who formerly served as a member of the New York City Council and as director of the Office of Federal Relations in the Dinkins administration, among her other positions in a long career of public service
![Image of Kelie Bowman](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/bowman-kelie_320x230px.jpg?itok=r9B6-ljW)
Kelie Bowman is an artist and farmer with two decades of experience creating community through the arts.
![Image of Spencer Cox](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Cox_Spencer_640x460.jpg?itok=p4kwwdmT)
Artist, performer, and AIDS activist whose work helped create the first effective drug protocols to combat the syndrome
Photograph © Walter Kurtz
![Image of John Limbert](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/limbert-john_320x230px.jpg?itok=bSr6QAsm)
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 Divine Bradley](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Bradley%2C%20Divine_320x230.jpg?itok=1-J0i5-U)
Divine Bradley is a futurist that has dedicated decades to reimagining the experience of school, communal spaces and creating transformational programming for the demographics they serve. A serial ideator and social entrepreneur that loves to dream BIG, explore the impossible and collaborate with people with prolific creativity, imagination and discipline, to produce ideas.
![Image of Casey Bohlen](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Bohlen%2CCasey_320x230px_1.jpg?itok=b6LklYos)
Casey Bohlen is a historian of the modern United States. His work focuses on the shifting historical relationship between religion, democratic engagement, and American public life.
![Image of Thom Loubet](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/LoubetThom_320x230px.jpg?itok=98YjAEAY)
Thom Loubet was a public radio producer at KUNM in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is also a touring musician and the executive director of a major children’s educational foundation—and brings all this experience to the classroom, where he teaches radio and podcast production.