Look at this crew! We’re very excited about the 2024 staff we’ve assembled, so take a look see at the fine folks leading our campers this summer below!
At the helm for 2024 are our directors Stephanie Hanson and Adam Kaplan, along with our incoming director, Noah Stein. We’ve got a full suite of village directors to boot — new to the role this year are Swamper Push Henry Quinn-Pasin and Logger Push Jake Hoffman, as well as returning Axeman Push Matthew Wilhelm, and sharing the Lumberjack Village are Spencer Brown and Bob Chukerman. The team is rounded out with our 5th Push, returning administrator Larry Held. Serving as our Community Social Worker is Adam Backles.
We have a great variety of new and returning cabin staff for 2024. This summer, Senior Counselors include Josh Marcus, Nelson Mendels, Nick Fleisher, Jason Shacter, Ben Hackney, Andrew Kuria, Aron Dudas, Justin Munoz, Aidan Capes, Andrew Condrell, Tyler Gray, Joey Rivkin, Eric Portillo, Sam Reichert, JEese Herzog, Jose de la Pena, Adam Eberhard, Patrick Baggaley, Matthew Perry, Anthony Gutierrez, Fernando Lapetra Murcia, Oscar Ellis, Isaac Fetnacci, Raul Fernandez Alvarez, Sandy Johnson, Alex Allbrighton, Solomon Wexler, Oliver Held, Nick Friedman, Asher Friedman, and Michael Berler. Junior Counselors include Ben Polonsky, Oliver Gray, Tristan Hall, Ezra Maidenberg, Griffin Scissors, Jacob Rolfe, Jasper Braunschweiger, Matan Seigel, Wes Schwartz, Atlas Barnes, Eli Zelvy, Jacob Lutsky, Asher Corndorf, Micah Rosenbloom, Jack Krupnick, Sam Montag, Chase Herbert, Mark Gingiss, Jonah Rontal, and Logan Segal.
Leading our Trip Program are Trip Director Jonah Domsky and Assistant Trip Director Grant Sachs. Packing out trips this summer is returning Quartermaster Jon Star. Wilderness Trip Leaders this summer include Phoebe Stern, Jaden Beltzman, Hailey Riven, Kam Denney, Drew Smith, Ollie Tannahill, Saskia Wilson, Zach Lechter, Ben Hanson-Kaplan, Hailey Gerdes, Juan Malan, Adam Svoboda, Nathan Starhill, and Micah Stone. And Bill Hensel, Ron Gaare, Kevin Robinson, Kevin Bowe, and Jason Yale will drive trips for us this summer.
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 are Waterfront Directors Amelie Sadler and Isaac Murray-Stark. Theresa Nevins and Sean Kennedy are running our waterskiing program this summer. The Craft Shop is being helmed by Nora Starhill, joined by Craft Shop Specialists Fern Neubauer and Annie Fenner to help with all of your tie-dye and watercolor needs. Ellie Friedman is moving next door to lead the Nature Lore program. Whipping up new recipes in M.O.C.A. is Bella Mak. Randy Miller and Ben Lane will be on-belay as our Climbing Wall Specialists. Simon Topf will head the C.N.O.C. program this year. Helping you with your forehand this summer is Tennis Specialist Mario Aceves. Jim “JK” Koretz is back at camp as our darkroom photography specialist, and Charlie Barrows is returning as camp photographer. Allen Bennett is serving in a new role as Sunday Program Coordinator, and joining as a specialist is Ana Hernandez Avelino.
Returning to run our office and operations is full time Associate Director Joe Briggs. He’ll be joined in the office Josie Hanson-Kaplan, Beau Caro, and Sam May, and Gabe Colman, Dave Knoepfle, and Hugh Broder will serve (at some point in the summer) as town driver. Our Caretaking team is being led once again by Head Caretaker Andy Mack, with year round Caretaker Joe Crain, and seasonal caretakers Jair Torres Ponce and Jeremy Nordin-Berghuis. Our new Big House Housekeeper is Georgette Corona Peralta. Leading our infirmary this summer is our Nurse, Carolyn Robinson, with nurse’s assistants Aimee Knutson, Katy Condon, and Haley Schultz.
Leading our kitchen this summer is Cody Keys, and he’s joined by our two cooks, Alex Fuller and Sam Roach. They’ve got an all star team of kitchen staff working with them, with returners Ruben Perez Angel, Sofia Reyes, Noe Alvarez, Alejandra Rodriguez Jimenez, Marco Torres, Alexa Madrid, Erika Cante Ortega, Arley Gutierrez, Alejandro Rodriguez Jimenez, Emilio Tlatelpa Reyes, and Karla Cortes Hernandez, with new kitchen staff Jonathan Robles, Vanessa Vizuett Peralta, and Daryana Coraza.
2nd – Arely Aguila Gutierrez
Fourth Grade: Hiro Katsumura, Spencer Scissors
11th – Adam Kaplan
4th Grade Campers: Lu Apffel, Ezra Bennet, Sam Bernstein, Maxwell Block, Will Bratlien, Rex Frank, Bernie Goldstein, Henry Hengel, Jack Henrick, Santi Hernandez, Reuben Katz, Henry Knutson, Brule Kurowski, James Langley, Graham Marek, Max Seidman, William Sosa Najera, Max Strasberg, Elliot Tone, Hector Ventura Borja, Marc White, Dylan Wolf, Gray Wyler
8th – Jake Apple, Philip Bettencourt
Leading our Trip Program are Trip Director Jonah Domsky and Assistant Trip Director Grant Sachs. Packing out trips this summer is returning Quartermaster Jon Star. And Bill Hensel and Ron Gaare will be back in the driver’s seat as trip drivers this year. Wilderness Trip Leaders this summer include returners Phoebe Stern, Jaden Beltzman, and Kam Denney. They’re joined by newcomers Micah Stone, Hailey Riven, Drew Smith, and Saskia Wilson.
