Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant

Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant is CEO and co-founding director of Multicultural BRIDGE, an organization that, using the strengths of our Berkshire community, works to promote cultural humility and competence and to educate communities to overcome bias and barriers. BRIDGE offers many services, including a Women to Women Project, positive education and leadership programs for youth, and facilitated community conversations working towards social and racial justice. Hampton VanSant, an expert in diversity leadership and cultural understanding, curates trainings, workshops, and programs that have helped unify the Berkshire area and our neighbors beyond. She is also director of equity and inclusion at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, her alma mater.