Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Summer 2017)
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2017-06
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Bookshelf; Judith Butler ’78 on what makes for a livable world; “Dreaming in Foreign” by Safiya Sinclair ’10; Black Spring exhibition and courses; 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; MacArthur “Genius” and international civil rights leader Gay Johnson McDougall ’69 shares her story
of working to help free South Africa from apartheid rule; Alumni at Netflix; Google, Harvard, PBS, and the Vermont State House on why employing Bennington interns is good for business and good for education; Employers are looking for internships on students’
resumes, and more colleges than ever before are requiring them as part of an education. But with so many unpaid internships, how can these opportunities be made accessible to all students?; 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 1966 Civil Rights Act. Decades later she is
challenging our biases and raising the volume on
civil conversations; Faculty notes; Class notes