Alumni News

Image of Em Gutierrez Em Gutierrez ’24: Advocating for Change and Empowering Trans Communities

Since graduating in June, Em Gutierrez '24 is now working as part of the case management team at TransSOCIAL, which advocates for and serves the trans communities in Georgia and Florida.

Image of rainbow over Commons November Campus & Community Notes: Shay Totten '91

Get excited for holiday break and winter Field Work Term, and save the date for the next Fall Weekend, October 3–5, 2025.

Robinson with Luciana Figliulo ‘24 at the 2022 Reunion “Dressing the Activist” fashion show Connected and Unstoppable: Portraits in Collaboration

By Ashley Brenon Jowett

Image of group gathered outdoors November Alumni Perspectives: Shay Totten '91

Get excited! Save the date for All-Class Reunion, happening October 3-5, 2025. 

Students with Michael Pollan '76 and Mark Wunderlich Everything Michael Pollan '76 Loved About Bennington College Is Still True

Bennington College is the only college Michael Pollan ’76 applied to. Pollan’s mother had attended Bennington in the fifties, and he remembered reading through her college papers, which were kept in the attic of his childhood home, and thinking about how extraordinary it was to have been taught, as she was, by poet Howard Nemerov and literary critic Kenneth Burke.

Michael Pollan, Mark Wunderlich, and students
Michael Pollan '76, third from right, with faculty member Mark Wunderlich, second from right, and current Bennington College students.