STAFF Leadership Team out of cities for good and live near the woods somewhere... Megan Chamberlain when I stop being afraid of Director silence and the dark. I will be taking on the role of Pro- Megan Chamberlain has gram Director this summer, worked exclusively in experi- and I am SO excited to be ential education. She comes back at IB after 3 years away. to Farm & Wilderness after I’m extremely thankful to her recent time as a director of be back in a place where I am constantly surrounded two girls camps in Vermont. by amazing, intelligent, and loving people, and I can’t Megan also has directed out- wait to watch as new staff feels the magic of Indian door-based experiences in various settings like the Aloha Brook that I felt so deeply my first summer. This past Foundation’s Hulbert Outdoor Center, the University year I’ve been running an after school program at the of Vermont’s ropes course, and in residential therapeutic local Montessori school and being a “dorm parent” to programs throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. teenage ballerinas at the Pittsburgh Ballet School. I’ve When she is not enjoying time at camp, you can find worked with youth pretty much my entire working Megan practicing yoga, knitting, canoeing, and stoking life, but my real interest is working with young women, the wood-burning stove in her yurt where she lives in especially in outdoor spaces like summer camp! In my Strafford, VT. She is eager for her second summer to spare time, not gonna lie, I watch a lot of TV. I also help campers and staff feel empowered, connected with love being in nature- backpacking, hiking, biking, and nature and each other, and reach their full potential! especially napping on the IB docks. Napping anywhere in the sun, really. :) Lea Calderon-Guthe Assistant Director Who: Lea (pronounced like Lodge Directors “Leah”) or she, her and hers Where: Grew up in the piney Janet Portillo woods of North Carolina, First Lodge Director been making my home for Hello, my name is Janet Por- the last 7 years in the cooler tillo and I’ll be the first lodge and moosier forests of Ver- head this summer at Indian mont Brook! I sent my introduc- What: Assistant Director, and I’m super excited for tion to Megan but not sure if afternoon activity skits, barn chores with kiddos, watch- she has received it so she said ing the sun go down from the Orchard and making IB to send you one as well. the absolute greatest place to work So like I said, my name is Janet Portillo and I am from What else: I’m a baker, a hugger, a writer, a cheesemaker, South Central Los Angeles, CA. I am beyond excited to a runner, a storyteller, a hide-and-go-seeker (seriously, I work at Indian Brook because I love to educate, learn, love hide and seek) and a music-lover with no musical support, and inspire young girls. I work full time at talents to speak of Frank Del Olmo elementary school as a teacher assistant Why: Kids are so fun and so genuine. So often they and after school coach. I am also a full time student at have self-awareness without crippling self-consciousness, Los Angeles City college studying cultural anthropology a quality I am always hoping they will keep and I will and social work. On my free time I enjoy writing poetry, spontaneously develop. singing, reading, taking pictures of nature and cooking. Indian Brook has become my new passion in life and I Flavia Grattery-Musinsky would like to meet, bond, and challenge young girls to Program Director go beyond their goals and expectations for themselves. I Hi! My name is Flavia and I go by “she”. I’m an NYC work with kids year round and I love it! --> Pittsburgh transplant, though I hope to one day be Hannah Wolfe with Minnesota, Florida, Massachusetts, Alabama, Big Lodge Director California, Wisconsin, and of course Vermont on my Hello! I am Hannah, and I’m resume, I hail from the great lakes region, the upper used to the pronouns she, mid-west, the mitten state, America’s high five, known her, and hers. I just graduated politically as the state of Michigan. Midwest is best. from Oberlin College where I I’ll be returning this summer for my second year as the studied Biology and Religion. Counselor in Training Director. For me, the most excit- Ohio will always be a home ing part about another summer at Farm and Wilderness for me, but my family lives is that I get to continue o be part of an amazing com- in Washington DC, and that’s where I will be for the munity of people, campers and staff alike. next year when I’m not in Vermont! This summer I will My interests can be summed up pretty easily in the be Big Lodge Head, and I am so excited to be able to categories of exploring, discovering, gathering, singing, focus on the big picture of helping to make IB the best playing, and communitying. You just have to use your place to be for kids and staff. I am also looking forward imagination a bit for some. to being back on the Waterfront, doing distance swims, Kids are the great teachers of the world. They help me guarding and playing. In my free time, I love to run and recall important lessons of my past and share new learn- cook. ings every day without ever even meaning to. Working I can’t wait to be back in the beautiful hills of Vermont with the CITs takes that relationship to a whole new hanging out with this group of wonderful, powerful level. CITs learn from me, campers learn from them, people this summer! they learn from campers, I learn from them, I learn from their learnings from campers. It’s like holding one Bailey Grant mirror up to another and having the infinite reflections Senior Lodge Director change your image forever, except it’s much more im- My name is Bailey, but I’ll also portant that anything you can perceive with your eyes. go by Bails, she, her, or hers. I will be Senior Lodge Head this summer. This will be my

3rd summer working at Indi- Health & Wellness an Brook, and my 5th sum- Monica Vail mer at Farm and Wilderness. Head Nurse I am eager to return and see familiar faces as well as Hello, My name is Monica meet all the new campers and staff this summer. I grew Vail, and am returning to up in the Hudson Valley of New York, although I have Indian Brook for a second found myself traveling and exploring many other plac- summer to be a Nurse. I es. This year I spent time exploring Louisiana. I enjoy have 10 years experience as hiking, exploring, laughing, and creating. This summer I look forward to jumping in the lake and singing and an elementary school nurse, dancing while doing the Hobart. and 5 years of experience as a labor & delivery and postpartum nurse. I grew up in Colleen Bumford Stillwater, Minnesota. When I was a young girl, I spent CIT Program Director many summers at a lake cabin which had no electricity and running water, and I was immersed in the natural Generally I introduce myself world. When the opportunity arose in high school, I as Colleen (she/her etc but I’m raised money for the Lung Association and traveled the cool with whatever pronouns wilderness of Canada via canoe. I studied Biology and you like) though folks seem Chemistry in college. After college I became part of a to quickly attach nicknames group of women who traveled 60 days by canoe in the to me. Bumford, C-Bum, Arctic. We planned, lived, and canoed together, with a and Stinker are some of my conscious decision to operate by consensus. This meant personal favorites. many long discussions and learning many points of Though as of recent I have become a bit of a transient view, leading to tremendous personal growth. I live in state) and I just graduated from the University of Con- Delmar, NY now with my husband and two teenage necticut in May. I am excited about camp because for boys. I carry the lessons I learned from the Woman’s the opportunity to re-connect with nature and to build Arctic Canoe Adventure and the wilderness in my daily new friendships. I love cooking, playing guitar, yoga, life. I am most excited about being part of a com- and I am passionate about creating sustainable commu- munity of girls and women this summer, supporting nities! their interests and health, challenging their minds, and watching them grow.. Hurray for Farm and Wilderness, Brielle Ervin and the opportunity that lies ahead this summer! Work Projects Director My name is Brielle. I also go Kathleen Herring by Bri and b. Any pronouns Sensible Health Person are fine. Who: Kathleen (she/her) I grew up in Eastern Mas- Where: Savannah, GA sachusetts, but I spent the What: Sensible Health Person last four years in Northeast What else: I enjoy listening to Ohio learning about history, people and getting them out and power, and how both shape people’s lives in the of a hard place. I love travel- US. I feel real lucky that I get to come back to IB this ing and learning about differ- summer. I’ll be hanging out in Work Projects, building ent cultures. I like playing sports and listening to music. some things, painting some things, and learning some Why: I love working with kids because they are open to other things. I’m stoked to work with kids working trying new things and are curious about the world. I also with their hands and with their heads, and to see what learn from them because they give me a new perspective we’ll build up together. on the world. Eleanor Greene Waterfront Director Activity Area Directors Hi, I’m Eleanor, and I use she, her, and hers. I’m from a Keeley Driscoll small town in Massachusetts, Rocks & Ropes Director but I’ve lived in Washing- My name is Keeley Driscoll ton, D.C. for school for the and I am the Rocks and past few years. This summer, Ropes director. I am excited I’m Waterfront Head at IB, for the opportunity to share which is something I’m really excited about, having my knowledge and skills with worked as cabin staff and as lifeguard for the past two the courageous young women years. For this summer, I’m most looking forward of Indian Brook. My students to swim lessons, silly skits, canoeing, and trips long call me Coach Keeley. I am from southern California and short. When I’m not at camp, I like sitting in the and graduated from the University of Utah with a focus sun with a good book, baking, and knitting watching in Wilderness Emergency Medical Services. During my movies. As a kid, I went to a camp that embraced me college studies I had the great fortune of traveling to for who I was, which built the skills and friendships that four continents and fourteen countries. This experience have made me into who I am today, which is why I love enhanced my appreciation of cultural diversity that I working with campers at IB-- to be part of creating a weave into my learning environments. The more experi- similarly powerful and positive camp experience. ences one gains the more knowledge they obtain and the greater life’s adventure becomes. I intend to help all my Julia Kaneb students grow independently and as a team, with me the Creative Arts Director adventures never stop! Kelsey Sullivan My name is Julia. I grew up playing in the ocean and Hi! My name is Kelsey Sullivan. I am from the “Quiet rivers of Massachusetts, and just finished my college Corner” of Connecticut (the Northeast section of the education in the mountains of Colorado. I am very ex- cited to unleash the power Martyne Stout of creativity this summer Assistant Waterfront Director at camp! I am an artist Who: Martyne (Teenie, Martini, Teenie-Mart are also with an active imagination, just fine) lots of stories, and I love to Where: Utah dance. I love working with What: Waterfront Staff – also-washing pots and dishes, kids because I get to see the general cleanup, usually eating breakfast and lunch with magic of discovery through a First Lodge cabin, helping out as needed in other ar- their eyes. eas… My favorite “teaching” activity is canoeing. I love to once again work with kids! I’m always inspired and Fran Kearfott rejuvenated by being at IB, and in no particular order, Indian Brook Farmer this is why: the staff, the lake, fresh ideas, sleeping out- My name is Fran Ke- side, the silliness, the food (Lily and crew astonish me), arfott. I was born and learning new skills, having my mind and comfort zones raised in south central stretched, the physical challenge, etc. etc. etc. Louisiana. My path What else: Caring for and playing with my grandchil- lead me to Vermont and dren,watching films, reading, walking with friends Vermont is currently Why: Kids are surprising, funny, questioning, uplifting, my home. I am looking and creative. They restore my faith in humanity. forward to my role as the Farm Intern for Indian Brook, and anticipate many wonderful days with campers and staff in the sun, wind, rain, and anything else nature Cabin Staff might bring. Veggies are sprouting and the orchard is rife with flowers that will soon will be fruit, all of which Natasha Appleweis strike a chord with my love of tactfully and tastefully I’m from Brooklyn, NY. I appreciating the harvest-- something that I anticipate went to IB for 5 summers and will be a wonderful on-going celebration throughout TF for 1 summer. I just grad- the summer. I enjoy hiking, cooking, contra danc- uated from Colorado College ing, swimming and otherwise being in the presence of in May. I was an English/ nature and/or food with friends. I’ve worked in the Creative Writing major there. context of gardening and farming with kids for several I’m not sure what I’m doing years, and especially enjoy the questions and joy kids after camp, but I would like offer when they try or see something new, out of the to end up writing for children’s television. I love camp! ordinary, or wonderfully mundane. YEAH!

Claire Oliphant Luna Beller-Tadiar Barns & Gardens Hello! My name is Luna and Director I go by she. I am Filipina Jewish-American and currently I’m Claire. I am from North hail from NYC, but I’ve lived Carolina, and I just finished in Madrid, Kyoto, and Califor- a degree in art and a K-12 nia as well. I am a student still teaching license. I have figuring out things out, but I worked for the past few love painting, drawing comics, years as a demonstration languages, poetry, thinking critically about social issues, blacksmith and a farm educator, but have packed up all and, as of recently, jazz! I also very much enjoy dance my belongings to work on a year long photography and and martial arts. This will be my first summer at IB and story telling project. I’m so excited to be coming back I couldn’t be more excited! to my second home again as the B&G head at Indian Brook. Lisa Borst boat. However, I also love to Lisa Borst is nineteen and a travel to cities and explore rising sophomore at Brown new places in the world. My University, where she studies favorite things are playing Modern Culture and Media. with animals (especially dogs), She grew up in Fredericks- cooking/eating delicious food, burg, Virginia, a rural area singing, painting/drawing/ where she gained an appre- print-making, and being with ciation for the outdoors and my close friends. I am really worked on several farms throughout high school. At excited to create new projects and artsy crafts with the Indian Brook, she will be a member of the cabin staff. campers at IB, as well as explore Vermont during my This summer, she hopes to learn more about the flora free time. and fauna of Vermont, where much of her family hails from. She loves making movies and art, hiking, journal- Cris Eraso ism, and hearing people create music. My name is Cristina Isabel Eraso, but everybody calls me Selene Castrucci Cris. I am from Colombia, Hi, my name is Selene Latin America and I love my Castrucci. I grew up in New country. I really like to share York City but this year I have my customs and culture at moved to Beloit, Wisconsin camp and I really want to for school. I attended Indian learn more about American Brook for five summers where Culture. I will be at the waterfront this summer!! I really I was able to discover my pas- love to be part of the waterfront staff because I love sion for the outdoors and meet swimming, being in the lake and sharing with the envi- a bunch of wonderful women. ronment. I am so excited to meet new staff and see all I really like turtles, rocks and of you again. I know that this is going to be an amazing hiking. I cannot wait for camp to begin! summer and I really want to learn more about different things that we love at camp. I am a law student all the Jacqueline Davila time but in my free time I love listening to music and My name is Jacqueline reading some books! On weekends sometimes I go out Davila. I’m from Guatemala with friends and when I have the opportunity to go and I live in Los Angeles, swimming it is great. I really like working with children California. I’m excited about because I think that I can learn a lot from them. For being out at Indian Brook example, they are really creative, they love play and it is this summer because I’m nice to share different things with them. Working in a awaiting an adventure. I’m in summer camp is the best thing ever because in Colom- love with the idea of spending bia we do not have these kinds of activities. all summer out in the wil- derness teaching young girls new skills and having fun. May Fuentes My passion is teaching and learning right alongside my Hello! My name is Mayra students. You’re never too old to grow from within. Fuentes, “May” to friends and family. I’m from Mexico, I Vesta Davis love to help people and learn My name is Vesta Davis, I go by she/her, and this is my about cultures. I love nature first summer at IB! I will be a camp counselor. I grew and I can’t wait to share this up in Brooklin, Maine and am going to be a senior at amazing experience. I’m a Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, where I study good cook, writer, traveler, Environmental Studies. Growing up on the coast of friend, adventure partner, and I love music, dance and Maine, I feel most comfortable when outside or on a sports. I love to travel, eat, drink and learn every day. I’m excited to meet everyone and make new friends! are some popular ones). My This is gonna be an experience for life, and I know I’m passions include playing ice gonna learn things that will be in my life forever. I love hockey, singing, backpacking, kids because they have lots of energy, they learn easily acting, and writing. I love and they rarely feel afraid. Kids always have something working with kids because of positive to share. their profound insight in a complicated world. Growing Kiri Gair-MacMichael with them and learning from Hello! My name is Kirina them is an experience like no Gair-MacMichael, feel free other. This summer I am a cabin counselor. I am excited to call me Kiri, and I prefer to laugh with my campers, stargaze, sit by a campfire, the pronouns she/her/hers. I cook with a community, and have wild and sponta- was born in Calcutta, India neous dance parties! and was adopted when I was eight months old. I live in Rosa Haas West Hartford, Connecticut and will be attending Mount Phoebe Hogue-Rodley Holyoke College in the fall. I am very passionate about Phoebe is a native of Bos- social justice and the empowerment of women. Attend- ton, but has flown the nest ing Farm and Wilderness for fourteen years as a camper, to study Conflict Resolution it truly became my home away from home. As a cabin at Guilford College. She counselor this summer, I am looking forward to meeting is psyched to continue her new people, community building, trying new things, adventures in farming while at and going on adventures. I spend most of my free time IB and cannot wait to get her hanging out with my family and friends, doing com- hands dirty in the sun! Her munity service, and exploring the outdoors. I believe I main loves are doodling, playing the fiddle, and spend- can learn a lot from kids because they make me laugh, ing time with her silly younger brothers. She can’t wait have incredible imaginations, inspire me to see things in to learn from and live with the incredible young ladies a different perspective, and challenge me in a positive of IB. way. I look forward to meeting all of you and making unforgettable memories! Bergren Keats

Lauren Guido Amelia Lambert Hi I’m Lauren! I’m a Cleve- My name is Leslyn Lam- land native attending school bert but I prefer to be called in NYC. I seize every op- Amelia! I am from Brook- portunity to work & play lyn, New York and I will be outdoors whether it’s living in a camp counselor at Indian the backcountry of Alaska or Brook this summer. I’m very spending nights in my tree- excited to be apart of the of house. For the last 8 months the Farm & Wilderness family. I lived in the Ecuadorian Amazon where I worked with I can’t wait to meet the campers and give them as many coco & taught English. I enjoy fresh squeezed lemonade exciting adventures as I’ve had when I attended Indian with Vermont maple syrup, sidewalk chalk, homemade Brooke. I’m excited for all of the fun we will be having ice cream, exploring libraries & bike touring. from the bonfires, swimming, creative arts, coco house, silent meetings and especially the mini camping trips. I Hannah Gallogly can’t wait for all the new experiences they will have and I am Hannah Gallogly, born and bred in Newton, Mas- how elated they will be to tell their families all about it. sachusetts. You can call me Hannah or any silly version I want to teach them what I’ve learned at camp, from of my last name (Googs, Googly Eyes, and Galooooogly important things like how to be more responsible with their items, how to push past their fears, whether it’s young people, and I can’t wait to learn from the camp- a bug or when it comes to singing on stage, to even ers at IB. simpler things like a cool melody I learned when I last attended. I can’t wait to share the funny little handshake Leah Mesh-Ferguson my cabin mates & I made up! (Yes, I can’t believe I still My name is Leah and I am remember it!) Camp is a place where you create life unbelievably excited to be long friendships, explore new things and really learn to returning to Indian Brook and be brave and independent. I always love working with Farm & Wilderness for the children because they’re opened to learning new things! first time since I was a camp- They’re curious, adventurous, funny and caring. If I can er. I am from Boston, and just show them an amazing time and help mold them spent this past year in Ecua- into having an outgoing, vibrant and friendly personali- dor. I’ll be heading to McGill ty, then my summer goal will be complete. University in the Fall. I love languages, theater, softball, and sitting down with a good book. I am especially Rachel Leader looking forward to singing, swimming, and trips at IB this summer! Maya Martin Hello, my name is Maya Mirella Meza Martin (she/her/hers/ or My name is Mirella, but since they/them/theirs)! I’m from people always have trouble Nyack, NY, a small town by saying my name you can call the Hudson river a little north me Mimi. I am from Los of NYC. This summer, I am a Angeles, California. I am in cabin counselor in First Lodge love with this city. When I’m and run the Outdoor Living not busy I love to be outdoors Skills morning activity. I love to read, write poetry and doing something adventurous fiction, and play guitar, and I am extremely passionate or just hanging out with my very close friends doing about theater and making my own blends of tea with whatever it is we want to do that day. I have been work- herbs I grow. ing with kids for the past 5 years and they always seem I am so excited to meet campers and spend my first to amaze me on how they see everything different and summer at Indian Brook since I was a camper. Farm always want to learn. and Wilderness is such a wonderful place and I can’t wait to help others discover and enjoy it as much as I Emily Nissen did. Kids see the world in such a wonderful way and My name is Emily Nissen. I and watching them grow and learn is always a joy. was a camper at Indian Brook for three summers, Tama- Caroline Meister rack Farm for two summers, Hi! My name is Caroline and Questers for one. I’m and I use she/her/hers, and originally from New York this will be my first summer (not the city) and now I go to at IB. I originally hail from college in Wisconsin. outside of Chicago, and have just graduated from Oberlin Clare Pacelli College in Ohio. I’ll be a cabin My name is Clare Pacelli and counselor this summer, and I I go by she. I grew up in New am beyond excited to get to know campers, work hard, Hampshire with a love of play, create, and learn together. I am passionate about camping, hiking and swim- social justice, politics, nature, and peer support, and ming. I have recently started seek to build healing communities wherever I go. I love knitting and I also enjoy the energy and discovery that comes with working with reading and spending time with my friends and family.I am currently studying at rubik’s cube (though not simultaneously). I do watch the University of Vermont to become an elementary a lot of American TV series, and I can’t wait to be able school teacher. I love working with kids because of their experience the culture in person rather than seeing it imaginations, energy, and passion for fun. I am very on the screen. I’m looking forward to being part of the excited to be coming to Indian Brook for the first time Indian Brook community and working with the girls as this summer as a cabin counselor. I will also be spending they learn new skills and whilst having the time of their a lot of time by the water as a lifeguard :) lives.

Christine Page Lily Rankin Christine Page grew up in Hi, my name is Lily Rankin. Exeter, NH. This past May, I’m from Copley Ohio! I’m she graduated from Earlham looking forward to meeting College in Richmond, Indi- everyone, participating in fun ana, where she majored in activities, trying on silly hats, Neuroscience. Although she and the whole IB experience. loves so many things about I love to draw and paint, camp, she is most excited and I also love working with for swimming across the lake, drinking the best milk plants and animals. ever, watching the stars and participating in the chicken harvest. Following her time at F&W, she will participate Jenny Ruymann in Quaker Voluntary Service, where she will serve at Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Julia Schwartz I’m Julia and I go by she/her/ Sophia Pekowsky hers. I am from Brooklyn, I’m Sophia and I am so excited New York but to to college in to spend this summer at Indi- Iowa and recently got back an Brook! I’ve lived in Paris, from studying abroad in Mo- Moscow, New York City, and rocco where I ate a lot of de- Tampa, Florida, but as of now licious food, pet a lot of stray Boston is the city I call home. cats, and haggled in the souq I play guitar and ukulele and way too much. In my free time, I work as a babysitter I can’t wait to play and sing and at my school’s preschool laboratory. My role at camp songs this summer. I also love to paint, read chil- camp is as a cabin counselor, which to me means that I dren’s books, and make things with yarn. I’m looking get to live with and get to know 6-10 awesome campers forward to meeting all of you soon! each session of camp. I also am Barns and Gardens staff and a lifeguard. My absolute favorite part of working Selina Poon with kids is getting to know each one and see how per- My name is Selina Poon, sonalities and intellects develop at various ages/stages. I’m also known as “Spoon” Getting excited for camp and hoping you all are too! (from the combination of my initials/surname and also go Ellen St. Romain by “she”). I’m a BBC (British My name is Ellen St. Romain Born Chinese), so Chinese and my preferred gender pro- by ethnicity but born and noun is “she”. I am from the raised near London, UK. This beautiful city of Austin, Texas, will be my first time at camp and I’m very excited to be but have lived in Richmond, taking on the role as a camp counselor this summer. I Indiana for the last 4 years love the outdoors and have a passion for music too, and while attending Earlham not knowing the lyrics to a song doesn’t stop me from College. This summer, I’ll be singing along to it. I can play the ukulele and solve the working as a cabin counselor, as well as assisting with Barns and Gardens and Creative Arts! In my free time, every day in between. I’m ex- I enjoy being outside and swimming or birding, singing cited to watch campers grow, and playing the guitar, and laughing with friends. I on the slip and slide as well as love working with kids because they have just as much in silent meeting. I love mak- energy as I do! ing ice cream, being outside, rowing, and eating vegetables. Mara Steinitz I work with kids for their Hi! My name is Mara and I spontaneity, enthusiasm, and go by she, her, and hers. I am absolute ridiculousness. from the Boston area, but starting in the fall I will be Julia Wells living most of the year in St. I’m Julia and I go by female Paul, Minnesota. I will be a pronouns. I grew up in a cabin counselor and work- suburb of New York City and ing on the waterfront this I just finished my first year summer. I am super excited to go swimming everyday! of college outside of Bos- In my free time I like to read, bake cookies, and have ton. At camp, I’ll be a cabin dance parties. I love working with kids because of how counselor and outdoor living much fun I get to have with them. I was a long time skills activity staff. I’m excited Indian Brook camper and I cannot wait to have yet for singing, having fun outside, and meeting awesome another great summer on Woodward Reservoir! campers. Outside of my classes, my main passion is music. I play the viola and I love playing in orchestras as Esther Stilwell well as playing for fun with friends. I love working with Hi my name is Esther Stilwell. kids because they’re so inquisitive and excited about the I’m from Santa Cruz, Cali- world around them. I can’t wait for this summer! fornia and will be a first year student at Pitzer college in LA. I’m so excited to work at Kitchen Staff Indian Brook this summer as a cabin counselor and in the Lily Johnson farm and garden! This will Head Cook be my first year working at F&W, but I was a camper My name is Lily Johnson, in Crickets when I was ten. Since then, I have worked I also go by LJ. I’m origi- with kids teaching them about sustainability, gardening, nally from Miami, Florida and wilderness through various camps and programs in but I tend to move around California, and I spent the summer as an apprentice on a lot. Currently, I’m coming a farm in Massachusetts. I’m passionate about sustain- from Philadelphia. I have ability and the power of community life. I love working a background in education with kids to share my passion and to learn from all their but cooking is in my soul. Indian Brook is my home insightful opinions. Plus kids know how to have fun! away from home and I can’t wait to return. I’m excited When I’m not busy working at a bicycle advocacy non- to work with girls in the kitchen and show them some profit and going to school I’m knitting, riding my bike, whole food cooking skills that they can take home to hiking, and painting. their families.

Ellie Wachtel Zoe Grant I’m Ellie and I go by she. I’m from Washington, D.C. Assistant Head Cook and currently go to school in the Berkshires in Massa- The name is Zoe, I am originally from the beautiful chusetts. I’m going to be a cabin counselor at IB this Hudson Valley of New York, though my home is wher- summer and I’m excited for adventure day someday and ever I happen to be at the moment. I have been zigzag- ging across the states for some time now, working on all different kinds of farms and the mountains. Can’t wait whatever agriculturally based to return to IB (this time operations I stumble upon. to the kitchen!) to play in Cooking is a new passion of and to soak up that posi- mine which was ignited last tive, beautiful energy that summer when I worked at camp fosters. CAN’T WAIT F&W for the first time. I love TO GET BACK TO THE being in the woods and can’t WOODS! wait to spend another summer with the wonderful people here at Indian Brook. Espi Gilbert Molly Altreuter Hello! My name is Espi and I Hello! My name is Molly and go by she, her, and hers. I was I will be one of the cooks in born and raised in Brooklyn, the IB kitchen this summer! NY but I currently reside in I’m a rising senior at Earlham Lewiston, ME where I study College in Indiana but was Religion at Bates College. born and raised in NYC. I This summer, I will be cook- play soccer for my school’s ing for our awesome girls and varsity team but find time to I’m so excited to bake for over 200 again (don’t worry hang out with my friends, do random arts and crafts though, I won’t give them too much cake). When I’m projects, and find interesting recipes to cook and bake. I not on the kitchen, you will probably see me on the was a camper at IB and TF between 2005-2010 so I am porch knitting or reading. I can’t wait to see the girls extremely excited to come back as a staff member. F&W again this summer! gave me such wonderful memories as a camper and I cannot wait for all the adventures we will embark on Bella Hulkower together on the Woodward Reservoir. :) My name is Bella and I prefer she, her, and hers. I was raised Cam Bennett in Virginia but my heart lies My name is Camerin Ben- in western Massachusetts nett. More specifically I go by where I went to school. Cam and prefer the pronouns I’m returning as a cook she/her/hers. I have traveled this summer with renewed all over but I am a New En- enthusiasm for bread baking gland girl at heart, originally and vegetable dishes. Outside of camp I enjoy tutoring from southeastern Massachu- elementary school students, playing the Trinidadian setts. This will be my second steelpan, and crocheting everything. I can’t wait to hang year at Indian Brook and out with the incredible IB community ASAP! I a incredibly excited to be a part of that community again. This summer I will be working in the kitchen and Meaghan Sullivan cannot wait to share my love of cooking and using fresh, local ingredients with campers. I also cannot wait I play Fiona Wiedermann guitar, sing, and do performance art with campers and Counselors this summer, as well as everything else IB has to offer! Trips Staff

Abby Cali Sakinah Scott My name is Abby Cali and I go by she, her, and hers. Trips Coordinator I grew up in the Greater Boston Area and am current- Who: Sakinah N. Scott ly at Oberlin College in Ohio, desperately missing Where: New Jersey What: Trips Coordinator, I Emilie Sinkler am excited to meet everyone Hi, my name is Emilie or and go on some amazing “Sink”(she). I’m a recent adventures. graduate of Wesleyan Uni- What else: My passions versity in Connecticut, where include: long boarding, rock I studied Earth & Environ- climbing, reading, singing, mental Sciences, but am playing air guitar, tree climb- originally from the Chicago ing, slack-lining and all things suburbs. I was an F&W art. camper for seven summers and am extremely excited to Why: Children are our greatest source of happiness, be back again as a staff member. I’m happiest when I’m laughter, and curiosity all rolled into one. outdoors – running, swimming, rowing, and hiking are my favorite activities. I look forward to sharing my Rosa Friedrichs love for the outdoors with the campers and staff this Hi Everyone! My name is summer! Rosa Friedrichs and I am from the mountains of Lexington, Amelia Wurzburg Virginia. I prefer the gender Amelia was born and raised pronoun she. I recently grad- in Vermont’s Northeast uated from Earlham College Kingdom, and also calls the (woot woot!) where I majored White Mountains of New in Ceramics and minored in Hampshire home. She will Outdoor Education. This is my first summer at Farm be working as Trips Staff for and Wilderness and I will be working as a Trip Leader Indian Brook this summer. and helping out in the ceramics studio at Indian Brook. She is excited to get girls feel- I love rock climbing, dancing, using my bike to get ing comfortable in the outdoors, and empower them around (and go on trips), finding places to swim, views with self-sufficiency and confidence! In her own time, from the tops of mountains, baking, and making art. I Amelia does a lot of hiking and backpacking. Cooking heard about Farm and Wilderness from close friends at is one of her favorite activities, second only to eating. school and knew it was a community I wanted to get to Other favorite things include her family and friends, know when I heard about the “No body talk” rule. I’m reading historical fiction, and doing yoga. She loves looking forward to an exciting, challenging, and reward- working with kids for many reasons, including their ing summer and I’m so glad I will get to share it with wonder and honesty, and also because she gets to play you all! See you soon! games all the time.

Alyssa Lown My name is Alyssa Lown and I am super excited for Villagers camp this summer! I come from the lands of north- eastern Pennsylvania and more recently Rochester, NY, Shira Breen where I can usually be found My name is Shira Breen and in the ceramics or painting my preferred gender pro- studios at RIT. This summer I nouns are she, her, and hers. I am excited to delve into new am from Minneapolis Min- adventures working as a first nesota. This summer I will be time trip staff member. I can’t working as a councelor at the wait to meet everyone! Barn Day camp and living at Indian Brook. I have been Caitie Safrit lucky enough to be a part of the F&W community since I was 3 - the winding road that connects all of the lower camps is my favorite places to be in the world. I Educator as well as teaching Women’s Health for Johns love to ski, knit, collage, sing, canoe, have long discus- Hopkins. I am a singer songwriter as well.....Here is sions about social justice, explore, learn, and play guitar. my website. www.spicesings.com I love ushering at Working with kids lets me become a fairy princess or a two remarkable theaters in Baltimore as well as see- super hero or a ninja pirate in the blink of an eye, and ing our daughter dance with the Mark Morris Group learn from these children’s fresh perspectives and creative whenever we can. My partner is an Occupational ideas. I look forward to meeting you all soon! Therapist for the Baltimore City Public Schools. I love to garden in our yard as well. Natalie Izzo I love working with children because it is in my blood Hi! My name is Natalie, and and heart. My sister and mother and partner and my preferred gender pronoun daughters work with children and we love our lives. is she/her/hers. I am from I love the way little people think and feel and express Seattle and I currently attend their feelings and if done correctly, they can grow up school in Minnesota but I and change the world. They are playful creative souls spent most of my childhood and I love bringing the joy into their lives with music in the Boston area. I am a and movement and drama and they always surprise me Hawk/Raven Counselor at with how much insight they have. the Barn Day Camp, and there is nothing else I’d rath- er be doing this summer than spending it outside with Priscilla Melo kids and meeting new people in the beautiful Vermont Hello! My name is Priscil- environment. When I’m not studying or working you la Melo, and my preferred can find me playing Frisbee, biking, reading, hiking, gender pronoun is female. I running, or listening to and playing music -- all of these was born and raised in the outside whenever possible! I love the infectious, positive beautiful city of San Francis- energy that kids exude and the unique perspectives they co, and am currently finish- have on the world around them that makes having one- ing my freshman year at the on-one conversations with them so fulfilling. I can’t wait University of California, for the summer ahead! Riverside. My number one passion is singing. I love to sing, mainly because it makes me happy and it has the Spice ability to bring a group of people together. Music is a My name is Deborah Klein- “universal” language and I hope to meet some fellow mann and I have been going IBers who love it as much as I do! In 2011 and 2012, I by Spice since 1987 when I was a camper at Tamarack Farm. However, this sum- first started working at Farm mer I will be working as a counselor at the Barn Day and Wilderness as a 24 year Camp. I am excited to work with children because they old counselor at Tamarack are so full of happiness and positivity. I cannot wait to Farm. I go by she and have get to know all of these kids and watch them come out figured out that I am 2 Spir- of their shells throughout the summer. ited which is what Native American People name the members of the LGBTQ folks in their community. Isabelle Parker I am from the DC area and currently live in Baltimore, Isabelle is a rising junior at MD with my partner of 20 years. Bennington College, and hails I am going to be the Head of the Waterfront at the Barn from Newton, Massachusetts. Day CAmp for the first two sessions of camp and I will Although she has been a long- be participating with Indian Brook in the evenings. The time camper at Indian Brook thing that excites me the most is the children we will be and Tamarack Farm, this will working with and gaining knowledge from and guiding be her first summer working along their way. as a counselor at the Barn I am a preschool music teacher and an Arts Integration Day Camp. She is so excited to be a part of the spirited energy and warmth that comes from Farm and Wilder- eagerness that kids have to get creative with new activi- ness kids. Isabelle is a poet, a singer and an avid reader, ties while growing in their skills. I’m can’t wait to get to and looks forward to sharing those parts of herself with know the Barn Day Camp and Indian Brook campers the BDCers. and share an amazing summer with them!

Liv Sisson My name is Olivia Sisson but All-Camp Staff most people call me Liv. My family calls me Tia which is Mariah Fontaine kind of quirky. Rocks & Ropes Coordina- I’m from Great Falls, Virginia tor named for the huge Potomac My name is Mariah Fontaine River rapids that border our and this will be my first sum- town. My second home is mer working at F&W! I was Lexington, Virginia where I go to college at Washing- born in Oregon but lived in ton and Lee University. This past year I lived next door Granby, Massachusetts most to Robert E Lee’s old home, pretty cool! of my life. My role at F&W This summer I will be a BDC counselor and also an this summer is the Rocks and Ropes coordinator / Trip IB villager! I’m so excited to be a part of two special logistics- which I’m very excited about! I’m also excit- camp communities and to get outside and live sustain- ed about meeting new folks and getting away for the ably with some new pals! One of my biggest passions summer up in VT. I enjoy rock climbing, hiking, being is playing college lacrosse. I love to paint, draw, collage, outside as much as possible, taking my dog Kuma on and knit. Im also a runner and enjoy hiking and swim- adventures, traveling, going to music and arts festivals, ming. Bird watching is something new i’m trying out! baking, listening to good tunes, and reading. I get enjoy- I like working with kids because I enjoy sharing my ment from working with kids because they make me feel love for the outdoors and art with them! With so much young again and reminds me of how care free life can be! energy, kids always seem excited about new experiences, and this makes me excited too! I’m looking forward to Cynthia Johnson being a person who can offer support and friendship to Driver campers as they encounter obstacles and try new things at camp!

Rina Williams My name is Christina Agudelo Williams, but at Farm and Wilderness every- one calls me Rina. I’m from New Hampshire, but I attend Boston College during the school year, so most of my time is spent in and around Boston. I’m happy to say that this will be my third year working at F&W! I have been a counselor at Indian Brook for the past two years, but this summer I’ve moved down the road to work at the Barn Day Camp, so my time at Indian Brook will be enjoyed as a Villager. I love to paint and walk barefoot and bake and swim, which is lucky because I’ll be working on the waterfront all summer. Working with kids, especially while on the water, is always exciting and rewarding because of the