By attending Bard College in Annandale, or any institution in the Bard Network, you are automatically a member of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association. The Alumni/ae Association is here to strengthen the connection between alumni/ae and the College and help Bardians everywhere, of every graduating class, to stay in touch. There are now more than 19,000 Bard alumni/ae—and that number is growing, as close to half of all Bardians have graduated in the last 20 years.
The Bard College Alumni/ae Association, its Board of Governors and its committees are committed to maintaining shared values of anti-racism, justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and access in all aspects of programming, and interactions with Bard College community members, including but not limited to students, faculty, administration, fellow alumni/ae, and guests.
The Bard College Alumni/ae Association, its Board of Governors and its committees are committed to maintaining shared values of anti-racism, justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and access in all aspects of programming, and interactions with Bard College community members, including but not limited to students, faculty, administration, fellow alumni/ae, and guests.
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The Board of Governors
The work of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association relies on the active participation of alumni/ae on the committees of the Board of Governors. Alumni/ae from all eras of Bard’s history serve on this volunteer board and act as ambassadors of the College. We welcome all alumni/ae to attend Board of Governors meetings, which are held in May and December each year.
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Stay in Touch
Keep your records up to date in the alumni/ae directory.* The Alumni/ae Association sends out a monthly e-newsletter, The Triangle which is filled with alumni/ae news, news of the College, and upcoming events. We also send important messages from the College and news on networking events and alumni/ae achievements. The Bardian magazine, published twice yearly, is another way to stay informed on alumni/ae and College news. Follow us on social media to make sure you are getting the most out of your Alumni/ae Association.
*The alumni/ae directory will return in Fall 2022. In the interim, please email us your updated information at [email protected].
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“At Bard, a Cutting-Edge Program Offers Students from Conflict Zones a Path to Art-Making,” Writes ARTnews
The inaugural class of master’s graduates in Human Rights and the Arts through the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) were profiled in ARTnews. “The program, meant to support mature activists and artists who live in ongoing crisis zones, and who have experienced persecution, war, surveillance, and poverty, has just matriculated its first graduating class in this impressive and unique program,” writes Shanti Escalante-De Mattei.“At Bard, a Cutting-Edge Program Offers Students from Conflict Zones a Path to Art-Making,” Writes ARTnews
ARTnews also spoke with Carol Montealgre HRA ’23 and Adam HajYahia HRA ’23, who are among this year’s cohort of graduates, about their master’s theses. Montealgre returned to Colombia and reconnected with a union of Indigenous survivors of the country’s civil war. “I asked them what they needed, and they said they needed healing,” she said. HajYahia, meanwhile, researched the history of gender and sexuality in Palestine, finding “documentation of individuals who lived beyond the traditional boundaries of the gender binary and the patriarchy, focusing on sex workers, same sex relationships, and other activities and behavior that were found to be deviant by English colonizers.”
El Khoury told ARTnews she was proud of the inaugural class—and excited for what was to come. “I think so far, we’re managing to practice what we preach,” she said. “Sometimes I feel like this is too good to be true, like someone is going to find out and stop it. But so far, it’s happening.”
Post Date: 06-06-2023
Bard Alumnus, Designer Brandon Blackwood ’13 Speaks at Vice President Kamala Harris’s Roundtable for Young Entrepreneurs of Color
Brandon Blackwood ’13, Bard alumnus and designer, was invited to speak at the White House by Vice President Kamala Harris as part of the Young Men of Color Small Business Roundtable. Blackwood was one of more than 35 entrepreneurs and small business owners of color to attend the event, where Vice President Harris discussed resources and opportunities offered by the Biden-Harris Administration, reported Essence.Bard Alumnus, Designer Brandon Blackwood ’13 Speaks at Vice President Kamala Harris’s Roundtable for Young Entrepreneurs of Color
“It was really amazing to see a room full of black entrepreneurs being heard or listened to and voicing their opinions,” Blackwood told Essence. “That was a really beautiful and cool thing to see that I wasn’t the only person that had these issues and that these issues were things that people such as Madam Vice President wanted to address and talk about.”
Post Date: 05-31-2023
Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, Memoir by Poet Jane Wong ’07, Reviewed in the New York Times and Boston Globe
Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, a new memoir by Bard alumna and poet Jane Wong ’07, documents her childhood growing up as a second-generation working class American, falling asleep on bags of rice in her immigrant parents’ Atlantic City Chinese restaurant, which her father eventually loses to his gambling addiction. “The poet Wong’s book is reminiscent of an abstract watercolor, free-flowing, nonlinear, without clear borders,” writes Qian Julie Wang for the New York Times.Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, Memoir by Poet Jane Wong ’07, Reviewed in the New York Times and Boston Globe
Interviews:
LA Review of Books: “Tenderness and Ferocity Go Hand in Hand: A Conversation with Jane Wong”
Lit Hub: “Jane Wong: How Non-Linearity Mirrors the Experience of Migration”
Post Date: 05-31-2023
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10/27Friday
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5/25Saturday
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