Our Students

Documentary filmmaker and anthropology major Joelle Powe from Jamaica talks about how abundant opportunities at Bard have supported her academic, cultural, and artistic vision.

Christina Kiser, from North Providence, Rhode Island, knew in high school that she wanted to go to medical school and become a surgeon. Top of her game in both athletics and academics, she was recruited for the Bard women’s basketball team and received a prestigious Distinguished Scientist Scholarship to study biology.

Levi Lakota Lowe, from Jamestown, California, came to Bard sight unseen and fell in love with the campus as soon as he arrived. A double major in biology and philosophy, Lowe says he is obsessed with questions, thinking of new ways to do things, and the philosophical implications of those new approaches.

The daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, and the first in her family to attend college, Jen Lara grew up in the Corona, Queens, neighborhood of New York City. A mathematics major, Jen is passionate about education and helping more minority women enter STEM fields. 

Sedona, Arizona, native Viveca Lawrie was discovered by a Bard College Conservatory of Music faculty member, who encouraged her to apply to Bard. The opportunity to attain a double degree, a bachelor of music in trumpet performance and a bachelor of arts in French studies, appealed to her. 

Classical studies major and Bard College Conservatory of Music student Xinyi Wang experienced quarantine twice during the pandemic, first at home in Jiangsu, China in the winter, and then on the Bard campus in the spring. Through it all, she stays positive and engrossed herself in her Senior Project and her violin.

When Catherine Baum started looking at colleges, Bard was on her radar: her older brother, Ben, was already a Bard student. The two siblings grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, home of Bard College at Simon's Rock, about an hour’s drive from Annandale.