Sekka Scher

Sekka Scher graduated from Bennington in 1990 with a degree in History. Co-founder and Principal of Ellipsis Entertainment, Sekka has launched and cultivated the careers of multiple Oscar and Emmy winners/nominees, including Michael K Williams who played the iconic “Omar” in THE WIRE. In 2019, Sekka was honored with the Hudas Schwartz Liff Outstanding Volunteer Award in connection with her work launching the Spencer Cox '90 Field Work Term Fellowship for Public Action, inspired by her dear friend and classmate Spencer’s work as citizen scientist and pivotal AIDS activist who lobbied congress to influence the FDA’s approval of life extending drugs during the height of the crisis.