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WHAT DIDN’T EXIST BEFORE YOU MADE IT?
The next issue of the Bennington magazine will be authored by alumni submissions that respond to the question: What didn’t exist before you made it? From your responses, we will publish a ranging and vivid portfolio of alumni work.
![Webster and Katie Marsh](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Katie-Webster-Marsh300x225.jpg?itok=lE7joRYH)
“If you have a passion for a field, use your time in college to pursue that, whether or not you think you’re going to get a job in it,” said Katie Marsh ’12.
![Kent Hikida and Bennington architects](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Kent-Architects300x225.jpg?itok=IKIVs2qT)
Kent Hikida ’85 knows the value of the Bennington network extends long after graduation. Along with his wife, Amy Schweitzer Hikida ’85, he co-chairs the New York City Steering Committee for the Bennington Alumni Cooperative.
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Listen up! Through their podcasts and audiobooks, Bennington alumni and faculty are sharing essential and untold stories with the world.
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Mariam Shah ’14, who runs garam garam, a growing food venture devoted to Pakistani cuisine, hosted a February pop up at Pangaea in Bennington.
![Lulu Mulalu](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Lulu-Mulalu300x225.jpg?itok=ANUxxD4i)
While Lulu Mulalu ’18 was a student at Bennington College, her studies, which ranged from psychology, drama, voice, writing, and French, always circled back to the importance of language and storytelling.
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As a freelance producer with credits on dozens of films and television series such as Legion, Training Day, and Lucifer, Erik Holmberg '86 is an expert at navigating the many highs and lows that come with a career in the entertainment industry.
![Carol Channing](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Channing_Carol_300x225.jpg?itok=aoAjYEY1)
Celebrating the life of artistic trailblazer and electric stage personality Carol Channing '42.
![SJ Chiro](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/sj_chiro_1987300x225.jpg?itok=2bzl9PjV)
The most important qualities a film director can have, according to SJ Chiro ’87, are “an opinion, a point of view, and something urgent that you need to say.
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Barbara Rice postbac '96 has been appointed Assistant Secretary for Economic Development by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
![Bear Brook](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Bear-Brook300x225.png?itok=_02ktczk)
Jason Moon '13, a reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio, is the creator and host of Bear Brook, a new podcast miniseries that follows a New Hampshire cold case, the investigation of which is changing the field of forensics.
![Past Selves](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Fetterman_Sarah_Past%20Selves300x225.jpg?itok=R2_HDG4u)
Artists Sarah Fetterman '14 and Nicole Czapinski '06 returned to campus this autumn for a residency supported by the Woodbury Foundation.
![Steve Albahari](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Steve-Albahari300x225.jpg?itok=GoJ8kYGI)
To Steven Albahari ’82, Bennington College was “the cannon I stepped into that launched me and my potential.”
![Joan Tower](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Joan-Towers-NYT300x225.jpg?itok=16p8Nzbb)
Composer Joan Tower ’61 celebrated her 80th birthday in September. The New York Times spoke to her about this milestone and her lifelong journey with music.
![Tim Hernandez](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Tim-Hernandez300x225.jpg?itok=lqVO8cfc)
Tim Hernandez MFA '11 received University of California Santa Barbara’s 15th annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.
![Campus at Night](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Campus-Night300x225.jpg?itok=wdozE8dI)
If you’re looking for a good Halloween-time spook, check out these horror titles, all of which feature the work of Bennington alumni.
![Nicole Donnelly](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Nicole-Donnelly3000x225.jpg?itok=e9bvLpet)
Nicole Donnelly '02 is combining her painting and papermaking skills with ecological and environmental awareness for her new public art installation in South Philadelphia's Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park.
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Many Bennington alumni credit the community they found at the College among their most valuable lifelong influences. For Connie Golub Gorfinkle ’57, Jeanne Gorfinkle-Wiley ’85, and Lulu Wiley ’20, however, the Bennington network exists even within their own family.
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Similar to how many artists describe their work as a calling, Dr. Robert Davis, MD, MPH ’79 always felt drawn to a career in public health.
![Gay Johnson McDougall](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/JohnsonMcDougall_Gay_300x225.jpg?itok=a5C-M6LY)
International human rights and racial justice lawyer Gay Johnson McDougall ’69 is the 2018 recipient of Bennington College’s Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award.
![You Are Here](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/You-Are-Here300x225.jpg?itok=7Mdaen96)
Though Facebook helps old friends keep up to date with each other’s lives, Hyla Matthews ’91 can attest that nothing compares to the joy of reconnecting in person.
![RYOT](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/ryot-innovation-studio300x225.jpg?itok=vnajB0EG)
RYOT, an immersive entertainment studio founded by Bryn Mooser '01, is opening up a physical studio space with a focus on cutting-edge media production technologies this fall.
![Kevin Alter](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Kevin-Alter-Award300x225.jpg?itok=TVKcTa74)
Kevin Alter '85, founder of Alterstudio Architecture, has been inducted into the Wm. S. Marvin Hall of Fame for Design Excellence.
![Camille Renshaw](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Camille-Renshaw300x225.jpg?itok=jcgjPQXb)
Camille Renshaw '99, CEO and co-founder of B+E, the first tech-driven brokerage and trading platform for net lease real estate, will serve as a board member on the Rutgers Big Data Advisory Board, part of the Rutgers University Center for Innovation Education.
![We All Love the Beautiful Girls](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Joanne-Proulx300x225.jpg?itok=B66e8cBw)
We All Love the Beautiful Girls, the second novel by Joanne Proulx MFA ’14, garnered praise from Harper’s Bazaar, New York Post, and Good Morning America.
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"Bees," a poem by Maya Ribault MFA '18, is featured in the September 3, 2018 issue of The New Yorker.
![To All The Boys I've Loved Before](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/To-All-The-Boys300x225.jpg?itok=3PRw59W3)
Sofia Alvarez '07 wrote the screenplay for Netflix's To All The Boys I've Loved Before, adapted from Jenny Han's novel of the same name.
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Lisa Brennan-Jobs MFA '09 writes about her childhood navigating between her struggling single mom and her famous father.
![Mountain Man](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Mountain-Man300x225.jpg?itok=I2jZGL6l)
Magic Ship, the latest album from the folk trio comprised of Amelia Meath '10, Molly Sarlé '12, and Alex Sauser-Monnig '09, will be the group's first album in eight years.
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Bennington Writing Seminars alum Katy Simpson Smith MFA '13 has been appointed Eudora Welty Chair for Southern Literature at Millsaps College.