Summer 2021 Support Team Shay (she/her) is from San Jose, California and is a student at Claremont McKenna College. She loves reading stories centered around various social issues, which has inspired her work in the social justice field. Shay has helped organize a backpack drive for refugees, spread autism awareness in her community, and created …
Deep Dive: The Power of Pride Counselor Izzy (they/them) is an organizer, roller skater, and dog parent living in Missoula, Montana. They graduated from The New School in 2019 with a degree in Theater and a minor in Gender Studies, and are especially interested in the ways in which performance can be a vehicle for …
Deep Dive: The Power of Pride Counselor Ángela Méndez (she/her/hers) is a proud Chicana from Brooklyn, NY. She currently works as a 2nd grade teacher in New York City and loves embedding social justice topics into her classroom discussions. To her, education is more than learning how to read and write; true education is action …
Deep Dive: Celebrating Black Lives Counselor Kyana (ky/they/she) is a somatic earth-worker, community herbalist, and healer born in Western Massachusetts, where they currently reside. In 2017 they started an urban garden cooperative, Flood Farm Garden & Arts Collective, with a group of friends that donates garden beds to families experiencing food apartheid to help build …
Deep Dive: Celebrating Black Lives Counselor Simone Edwards is a City Year AmeriCorps Member at an elementary school in Washington, D.C. After graduating with her B.S. in Political Science: International and Comparative Studies from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, she completed three months of her Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Guatemala. There, she was …
Deep Dive: Celebrating Black Lives Counselor Seeley Davidson graduated in the spring of 2020 from Long Island University Global, a 4 year study abroad program where lessons are taught through the lens of experiential education. Throughout her time with LIU Global, Seeley worked as a vegan cook in New Zealand, a curator’s assistant at a …
Camp 101 Counselor Stephanie De La Hoz was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the United States as a young child. She grew up in Florida and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish Education and a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management. She has worked professionally as a high school teacher and also in program …
Camp 101 Counselor Shreya (they/them)! is from the Bay Area and was born and raised in San Jose, CA. Shreya really cares about the intersections of art, identity, mental health, education, and justice. They always hope to further understand how their identity (their privileges and marginalizations) informs their role in creating material change and support …
Camp 101 Counselor Rozina is an energy and environmental professional with nearly 15 years of global academic and work experience in the environmental sector. She is a Fulbright scholar; she spent a year in India studying agrarian distress and then completed her Masters degree in Environment and Sustainable Development at University College London. She currently …
Camp 101 and Deep Dive: Celebrating Black Lives Counselor René J. Valenzuela is a proud immigrant who is an active and avid supporter of transformative social justice. Their identity as an immigrant has been central to his exposure and involvement in seeking justice and radical change for marginalized communities. He is particularly passionate about immigrant …