Bennington College has announced three additions to its board of trustees: Sekka Scher, a leader in the entertainment community; educator and administrator George Davison; and Florence Gill, a graduate of the Class of 2022 who will be the recent graduate trustee on the board.
Scher, a 1990 Bennington graduate, has launched and cultivated the careers of several Oscar and Emmy winners and nominees. In 2019, she received the Hudas Schwartz Liff Outstanding Volunteer Award in connection with her work launching the Spencer Cox ’90 Field Work Term Fellowship for Public Action.
Davison served as head of the Grace Church School in New York from 1994 to 2022. His teaching career in New York City schools includes St David’s School, where he taught history and science, and Birch Wathen, where he served as head of the middle school. Davison is a past president of the Guild of Independent Schools of New York and served as chair of the Committee of Trustees of the Independent School Admissions Association of Greater New York.
Gill, a community organizer and change-maker in the dramatic arts, will serve as production management fellow at Berkeley Repertory Theatre for the 2022-23 season. She has worked in theater and film in the UK and the US, including projects with Living Room Theatre (US), Slung Low Theatre Company (UK); Imagine If Theatre Company (UK); Rock Challenge (UK); The Montgomery Theatre and Arts Centre (UK); and Dorset Theatre Festival (US).