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Ren Acevedo '27 studies Drama, Music, and Japanese at Bennington. For their summer 2025 Field Work Term, Acevedo performed in New Bedford Festival Theatre's summer production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Jason de la Peña '26 studies Literature at Bennington. For his summer 2025 Field Work Term, he interned at .

Edison Hicks '26 studies Literature, Drama, and Music at Bennington. For their summer 2025 Field Work Term, Hicks interned at .

Milaan Vasishta '28 studies Politics and Literature at Bennington. For her summer 2025 Field Work Term, Vasishta is interning at the New York Supreme Court.

Krithika Meenakshi '27 studies Dance, Acting, and Voice at Bennington. For her summer 2025 Field Work Term, Meenakshi is studying Clowning and Voice at in Tuscany, Italy.

Liliana VonFrank '28 studies Chemistry at Bennington. For their summer 2025 Field Work Term, VonFrank is working with faculty member Fortune Ononiwu.

Emma Gaffney '28 studies Literature, Philosophy, and History at Bennington. For her summer 2025 Field Work Term, Gaffney is interning for .

Aliza Khan '26 studies Visual Arts, including Architecture and Sculpture, at Bennington. For their summer 2025 Field Work Term, Khan is working as an intern for Yasue Maetake, a New York City-based Japanese sculptor.

The contrast between 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ graduates and their peers from other institutions is striking.

Each winter, 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ students step outside the classroom to take part in Field Work Term—a six-week immersion in the professional world designed to help them deepen their studies, gain real-world experience, and explore potential career paths and contribute valuable skills to companies and nonprofits.

Erin Racklin '26 studies Psychology and Anthropology at Bennington. During the winter, Racklin completed a Field Work Term experience at , which provides Social Emotional Learning (SEL) tools to K-12 schools.

Alex Bregy '26 studies Creative Writing and Film at Bennington. During the winter, Bregy completed a Field Work Term experience split between two sites: the and the .

Shloka Shah '25 studies Drama, with a focus on acting and directing, at Bennington. During the winter, Shah completed a Field Work Term experience as a Creative Development Intern at in Mumbai, India.

Annabelle Lisa '28 studies Drama and Communications at Bennington. During the winter, Lisa completed a Field Work Term experience at in Vero Beach, FL.

Devan Spiro '27 studies interdisciplinary photojournalism through ethnographic research methodologies and curatorial practices. During the winter, Spiro completed a Field Work Term experience at , one of New York City's oldest cooperative nonprofit art gallery spaces.

Bennington students reflect on their winter 2025 Field Work Term experiences, honing and testing classroom knowledge in their independent projects and internships.

Jacqueline Walsh '26 studies Politics and Public Action at Bennington, with supplemental focus on Spanish and statistics. During the winter, Walsh completed a Field Work Term experience interning with the .

Martha Siegel '72 taught cello at the United Nations International School for fifty years. She shared how her Bennington education and Field Work Term experiences inspired a lifelong passion for teaching music.

Carlos X. Torres de Janon '14 currently lives in Seattle and works as an associate Landscape Designer at MIG, Inc. He shared how his Bennington education taught him to "wear many hats" in design and in life.

Thirty-six Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2025 Field Work Term.

Julie Gargiulo '27 studies Costume Design at Bennington. She spent her winter Field Work Term in New York interning with local seamstress, Mery Fernandez.

Yami Antonio ’25 studies Psychology and Anthropology at Bennington. She spent her summer Field Work Term in Kuala Lumpur and Penang as a student ethnographic researcher for the Consortium of Forced Migration, Displacement and  Education.

Over the summer, Annika Owenmark '25 completed a Field Work Term experience at Cal Shakes as the coordinator for the youth summer conservatory. 

Over the summer, Roberta Martey '25 completed a Field Work Term internship in Kyoto, Japan, where she worked as an intern on a Social Kitchen project with the .

Coco Rohde '26 reflected on her Field Work Term experience at Brooklyn Children’s Theatre.

At Bennington, Killion Knight '25 studies Drama, along with Creative Writing, Dance, and Philosophy. During the summer, Knight completed a Field Work Term experience at , a nonprofit working to connect queer individuals in need of support to mental and physical health resources.

Raelyn Smith '26 studies industrial-organizational psychology at Bennington, with coursework focusing on a combination of group psychology, social psychology, and political economy. During the summer, Smith completed a Field Work Term experience interning within the human resources department of the .

Chuna Chugay '25 studies Visual Arts at Bennington, with an emphasis of storytelling through images—which includes animation, illustration, comics, and painting—as well as Public Action, researching the Koryo-Saram diaspora. For their summer Field Work Term, they worked as an editorial intern at the  (MoMI).

Krithika Meenakshi '27 studies Performing Arts—including dance, acting, and singing—at Bennington. During summer 2024, Krithika completed a Field Work Term experience as a dance trainee with dancer .

Julius Boxer-Cooper '26 studies Music, Linguistics, and Chinese at Bennington and is currently studying abroad in Taiwan. During summer 2024, Boxer-Cooper completed a Field Work Term experience at .