So after four years at Dartmouth, Bennett immediately got to work on a career that would take him around the world and thrust him into leadership roles. Along the way, he has had the chance to tell stories that have made an impact on the communities where he has lived. Whether it was exposing poor conditions in public-housing in Delray Beach, Florida, or investigating racial discrimination against black City of Fort Lauderdale employees, Bennett has consistently found stories worth telling of people who needed help finding a voice. He credits that to the Bible passage, “you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) 

“That’s my motto as a journalist,” Bennett said. “In all the work I’ve done over the course of my career, I have made it a mission to find out and tell the truth. In today’s political atmosphere, where ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’ are being spread around the world at lightning speed, it is now more important than ever for journalists to fulfill our critical role in society of separating fact from fiction. It’s up to us to tell people the truth.” 

Bennett has taken his advocacy and storytelling to a new level in recent years as he now works as a senior editor/writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. “I have always been interested in civil rights. After the 2016 election, I found myself energized and applied to SPLC.” He also moonlights as an adjunct professor of journalism at Auburn University, where he is teaching a course in magazine and feature writing. 

Whether he’s been a writer or an editor, a communications manager or a journalist, a teacher or a student, at heart, Bennett has always been seeking the truth.

Brad Bennett is one of 12 alumni featured in the 40th anniversary magazine, published in May 2019. Learn more about the history of St. Andrew's and the impact our alumni are having around the world by reading our spring magazine.