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Benny Parks
About Benny
Benny’s background spans libraries, writers’ rooms, food service, warehouses, and an artist residency. Completing his MLIS, he will apply these varied experiences to law school, focusing on how communities preserve stories and care for one another.
Benny created these works in the shadow of the Mansueto Library. Now he is putting them up for sale, not to chase profit, but to pay for law school.
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Masters in Library Science
Benny is in the final stretch of his Master’s in Library and Information Science. His projects, ranging from cultural heritage exhibits to leadership and design thinking, will be featured here December 2025.
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Writing Samples
In 2011 Benny co-founded Super Tuesday News, a Los Angeles satire site. One viral piece about Sarah Palin and Christina Aguilera fooled several outlets and even drew a public denial from Palin, a small example of how sharp parody can travel fast.“Palin says she’d deport Christina Aguilera for botching national anthem,”
Benny Parks once got the call to audition for Saturday Night Live. With just one night to prepare, he grabbed his good friend Cameron Wyckoff, a camera, and a pile of half-baked ideas. By morning, they had this reel: scrappy, fast, funny. Proof that sometimes the deadline is the best punchline.
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When Day Breaks was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Created in a period of lockdown and uncertainty, the album reflects the time it was made while exploring new ideas that came out of that unique moment.
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