From the Outside In
After an accident left him paralyzed at 42, August de los Reyes ’95, head of research and design at Pinterest, gained a valuable perspective that would reorient the focus of his work and challenge the paradigms of 21st-century design. By Brian Davidson
They put words in actors’ mouths. They move scenes seamlessly. They design iconic sets. Alums at Netflix develop the shows you can’t help but binge watch—and you likely didn’t know their names or how they do what they do, until now. By Sarah McAbee ’07.
International civil rights lawyer Gay Johnson McDougall ’69 and the story behind what it took to free South Africa from apartheid rule. By Jeva Lange ’15.
More and more employers are looking for internships on students’ resumes, and more and more colleges are requiring them as part of an education. But with so many internships unpaid, can students afford to do them? By Michael Blanding
Gail Hirschorn Evans ’63 worked at the White House in the Office of the Special Counsel to the President during the Lyndon Johnson administration and was instrumental in the creation of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1965 Civil Rights Act. Decades later she is still challenging our biases. By Jeva Lange ’15
On the value of a Bennington intern, as told by the people who hire them.
Two classes, one big assignment: exhibit, catalogue, and archive black lives at Bennington in a multimedia performance exhibition in Usdan Gallery by Briee Della Rocca.
Alumni come back to campus throughout the year but in the last several years more alumni are returning to campus through programs the College has developed. These are some of the avenues alumni have used to come back.
“Mogelson gives a nuanced, empathetic look into lives irrevocably altered by conflicts.” The Nation
