Natalie Bennett chief foreign sub-editor. She settled in the United Kingdom in 1999, and said in a 2013 interview for the Australian "Inside Story" website about the country of her birth: "I can’t imagine going there by choice." In Britain, Bennett has written for "The Guardian"s "Comment is Free" section since 2006. Bennett was also a blogger. She was deputy editor and then editor of "The Guardian Weekly" from December 2007 until March 2012. She has also worked for the London-based "Independent" and "Times" newspapers. In 2012, she took voluntary redundancy and left journalism. Natalie Bennett joined the Green Party on 1
Bennett College Aid Society. In 1878, freedmen purchased land for a future college campus (this is the current site). Hearing of what was being done, New York businessman Lyman Bennett provided $10,000 in funding to build a permanent campus. Bennett died soon thereafter, and the school was named Bennett Seminary and a bell was created in his honor. Hearing of Bennett's philanthropy his coworkers continued his mission by providing the bell for the school. In 1888, Bennett Seminary elected its first African-American president, the Reverend Charles N. Grandison. Grandison spearheaded a successful drive to have the school chartered as a four-year college