Newsmakers

Dalia Najjar ’14, general manager of Palestine-based Farouk Systems, has secured a $1 million agricultural grant for local producers/farmers to expand regional sourcing.

The Bard alum shares photographs from her summer on the road, taken in between shoots for two new movies and shows with her band.

As a Bard student, Letz traveled to five countries to study the effects of globalization on small farmers. Now she’s turned her passion for growing local and organic into the thriving Bluma Farm.

We don’t accept all-male panels on women’s issues, says Mustafa. So why do we still discuss refugee policy without refugees?

Wolff, who joined the recovery effort in New Orleans during her first year at Bard, returns to the city to lead its first family-focused agency.

McLean and Strack, who met at Bard and later married, have turned a shared love of literature into a successful singing and songwriting career.

The Block Museum of Art is devoting its first-floor gallery to Chan’s media work Happiness (finally) after 35,000 years of civilization.

“Trump implies that if Montenegro were not in NATO, then the United States could stay uninvolved in a war between Montenegro and Russia. This ignores both geography and history.”

First, writes Fiori, we have to recognize the latent marginalization of minority populations in the mainstream media.

Rozsa wrote his Senior Project on Carter’s famous Crisis of Confidence speech. Here, he interviews Carter about the prescience of that speech in the era of President Trump.

The Brownsville Community Culinary Center, cofounded by Bard alum Lucas Denton, helps young people create career opportunities for themselves while serving their community.

Bard alumnus John Yau talks to Martha Wilson, founder of Franklin Furnace, and artist William Villalongo about Johns’s life and work.

Susan Mernit ’74, CEO of Hack the Hood, introduces low-income students of color to careers in tech by hiring and training them to build websites for local businesses in their communities.

Bard alumna Lola Kirke talks with Nylon’s Sandra Song ahead of the release of her debut album in August.

“If we want to hold the powerful accountable,” says Farrow, “one of the best tools to do that is through reporting.”

Union organizer David Rolf ’92 is at the forefront of the shift in the labor movement, from a focus on organizing workers in manufacturing to those in the service sector.

Bard College held its one hundred fifty-eighth commencement on Saturday, May 26, 2018. At the commencement ceremony, Bard President Leon Botstein conferred 469 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2018 and 164 graduate degrees.

Bard alumna Noor Gharzeddine’s Are You Glad I’m Here will be shown at the Brooklyn Film Festival on June 9–10.

“Farrow draws on both government experience and fresh reporting to offer a lament for the plight of America’s diplomats—and an argument for why it matters.”

Bard alumna Odetta Hartman continues to explore and reinvent American folk expression in her second album, Old Rockhounds Never Die.

Smith, an award-winning entrepreneur and tech evangelist, will deliver the address at the College’s 158th commencement on Saturday, May 26.

Conover, a Bard alum and creator of the TV comedy Adam Ruins Everything, says Wolf did what comedians are supposed to do: she told the truth, and no one should be apologizing.

Bard College and Simon’s Rock alumnus Ronan Farrow ’04 will receive the Point Courage Award, recognizing his advocacy for the future of the LGBTQ community in his work as a journalist.

Arthur Holland Michel '13 is a finalist for the Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, given to support the completion of significant works of nonfiction on topics of political and social concern.

Award-winning choreographer Arthur Aviles fell in love with dance as an undergraduate at Bard College, where he studied with Jean Churchill, Lenore Latimer, and Aileen Passloff.

Sohrab Mohebbi, a graduate of the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, will join SculptureCenter as head curator in April.

"Formed amid the fruitful live-music scene at Bard College," this Hudson Valley band "is slicing and dicing indie rock in its own image."

Inés Katzenstein will head MoMA’s Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research institute for the Study of Art from Latin America.

Kayla Gerdes is drawing on her troubled past to advocate for criminal justice reform and more support for prisoners after their release.

The artist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer interprets what’s happening on Page 76 of newly published or upcoming titles.

Designer Paris Starn’s debut collection draws inspiration from her great-grandmother’s aprons.

Journalist and Bard alumna Moira Donegan ’12 on why she started the online list of men in the media industry accused of sexual harassment, and what her life has been like since.

Spahr and Young, both of whom teach at Mills College, argue that in shielding students from sexual harassers, professors support a broken system.

Ronan Farrow ’04 talks about Hollywood, journalism, and the Weinstein exposé that launched a movement in this wide-ranging interview.

Houthi forces have captured a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater research vehicle off the coast of Yemen. Gettinger, codirector of Bard's Drone Center, weighs in.

Mariel Fiori will cohost a new program on Radio Kingston, which plans to expand to FM and move to a new home in the city.

Dan Gettinger, Bard alumnus and codirector of Bard's Drone Center, talks about how Isis uses recreational drones for propaganda purposes.

Bard alumnus J.I. Abbot reflects on the late William Mullen, his Greek professor at Bard, for his engaged mentoring and lifelong impact on Abbot's own teaching.

Curator and art dealer Cros is one of five young women who will make the art world go round in 2018, according to W magazine.

Eva-Marie Quinones, now a doctoral student at Yale, discusses the Unity March for Puerto Rico in her role as head of national youth engagement. Interview by Stephanie Presch '15.

The Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fund will support the Khalil brothers' new film, Untitled Norval Morrisseau Project.

Julia Bullock MM '11 speaks about her life as an opera singer and her role as Dame Shirley in the world premiere of John Adams’s Girls of the Golden West.

Eli Pariser, Upworthy president and cofounder, author, and Bard College at Simon’s Rock alumnus, visited an Internet and Society class at Bard High School Early College Queens.

Bard alumna and editor of the Bard-sponsored Spanish language magazine La Voz Mariel Fiori ’05 has won the Woman of the Year Award from the American Association of University Women.

Drone Center codirector and cofounder Dan Gettinger '13 discusses how U.S. military spending on drones in 2018 is set to outpace 2017 spending.

Loudis comes to World Policy Journal most recently from Al Jazeera America, where she was a digital features editor.

Artist Anna Sew Hoy will be the first Martha Longenecker Roth Distinguished Artist in Residence, noted for "expanding the field of art, celebrating material and craft, and engaging with students and the public."

Duane Linklater's Wood Land School creates site-specific exhibitions of works by indigenous artists—most recently an ambitious, yearlong project at Montreal’s SBC Gallery.

Alyssa Greenberg MA '12, who received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago this year, has been named a Leadership Fellow at The Toledo Museum of Art. This recently established program cultivates membership of the next generation of museum leaders through an innovative, experiential program that also builds partnerships across the broader industry and community.

Judith Gura MA '99 is on the faculty at the New York School of Interior Design. Her most recent book is Postmodern Design Complete: Design, Furniture, Graphics, Architecture, Interiors, published by Thames & Hudson.

Melissa Riebe McCaffrey MA '10 has been named regional director of New York Fine Art Appraisers' newly opened New England office in Boston. Assisted by a team of appraisers and experts in a range of specialties—including jewelry, Americana, modern and contemporary art, and antique furniture—she provides onsite appraisal services to local and New England clientele.

Unspecified Promise, a sculpture and performance art piece by Guillermo Calzadilla MFA '02 and Jennifer Allora, speaks to the personal aftermath of Hurricane Maria.