That’s right, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for — the first staff list for the summer of 2023! Have fun searching for your favorite counselors, and if you don’t see your name below and would like it to be added, well you’re in luck: we’re still hiring! Reach out to [email protected] and we can get the ball rolling for our 94th camping season!
At the helm for 2023 are our returning directors, back for their 20th season, it’s Stephanie Hanson and Adam Kaplan (surprise surprise!). We’ve got a full suite of village directors to boot — returning as Swamper Push is David Sachs, as Axeman Push is Matthew Wilhelm, and as Lumberjack Push is Noah Stein. The team is rounded out with first time village director Ric Best in the Logger village.
We have a great variety of new and returning cabin staff for 2023. Returning Senior Counselors include Jason Shacter, Joey Rivkin, Eric Portillo, Ethan Pittham, and Jesse Herzog, who will be joined by first time senior counselors Jashua Sanabria, Soloman Wexler, Benjamin Dammeyer, Callum McGinn, and Joel Matthew. Returning Junior Counselors include Nelson Mendels, Nick Fleisher, Aidan Capes, Josh Marcus, Adam Eberhard, Ben Hackney, Nathan Starhill, Anthony Gutierrez, Andrew Condrell, and Emmitt Gerstein. New Junior Counselors include Jacob Lutsky, Jonah Rontal, Max Kennedy, Ben Wolf, Griffin Scissors, Jasper Braunschweiger, and Sam More.
Leading our Trip Program are Trip Director Jason Yale and returning Assistant Trip Director Jonah Domsky. Packing out trips this summer is returning Quartermaster Jon Star. And Bill Hensel, Ron Gaare, Amy Mack, and Gordon Schreiber will all be back in the driver’s seat as trip drivers this year. Wilderness Trip Leaders this summer include returners Isaac Schiff-Lewin, Salma Schwartzman, Billy Galpern, Jesse Chan, Trent Flegel, and Henry Burns. They’re joined by newcomers Louisa Goltry, Ben Kessler, Tenille Flegel, and Jaden Beltsman.
Full time Associate Director Louis Levin will be Program Director this summer, and there’s a bunch of returning and new Specialists helping execute a great program. Leading our waterfront is returning Waterfront Director Isaac Murray-Stark. Staying on the waterfront, Amelie Sadler is back to lead our sailing program, and Theresa Nevins returns as our waterskiing instructor. The Craft Shop is being helmed once again by Sean Kennedy, and both Craft Shop Specialists Nora Starhill and Ellie Friedman will be back to help with all of your tie-dye and watercolor needs! Whipping up new recipes in MOCA is first time staffer Laila Maidenberg. Haley Joy will be joy-ning us to run our climbing wall as a first time staff member. And Simon Topf will takes on a new role as Rangemaster at our Target Shooting and Archery range.
Returning to run our office and operations is full time Associate Director is Joe Briggs. He’ll be joined in the office by returners Josie Hanson-Kaplan, Adena Rosenbloom, and Emily Yale, and Allen Bennett is back for another year as town driver. Our Caretaking team is being led once again by Andy Mack, with year round caretaker Joe Crain, returning caretaker Jair Torres Ponce and returning Big House Housekeeper Xiemena Nava Cervantes. And Amber Burvall is returning to lead our infirmary, with new nurse’s assistant Lindsey Fleith.
We’ve got two cooks in the kitchen — Cody Keys is back for more, and he’s joined by new cook, Sam Roach. They’ve got an all star team of kitchen staff working with them, with returners Alex Fuller, Ruben Perez Angel, Sofia Reyes, Noe Alvarez, Alejandra Rodriguez Jimenez, Marco Torres, Camila Sanchez Garcia, Paula Sanchez Garcia, and Alexa Madrid. And rounding out our kitchen, we’ve got new staff members Erika Cante Ortega, Arley Gutierrez, Alejandro Rodriguez Jimenez, Emilio Tlatelpa Reyes, and Karla Cortes Hernandez.
