Kevin is the owner/director, with his wife Natasha, of Camp Kupugani Multicultural Summer Camp, the only black-owned private residential camp in the U.S. Proud papa of a an adventurous son, he is also a published author, former attorney, former semi-professional tennis player and backpacker. Kevin has traveled to over 50 countries throughout the Caribbean, North and South America, Africa, and Europe.

A Harvard University graduate in psychology and the Canadian-born son of Jamaican immigrants, Kevin has worked with children for over thirty years. Before getting into camping, Kevin worked as a bartender, a furniture mover, a bus driver, a blackjack dealer, a garbage man, and a tennis pro. After college, he worked as an assistant camp director, traveled in Europe, traveled throughout Africa, and wrote a book chronicling his African adventures, titled Not Yet African. While gaining further valuable experience from camp programs from Pennsylvania to California, Kevin graduated from the University of California-Berkeley School of Law and worked for a top-100 law firm to further his organizational experience.

Kevin has served on the Board of Directors of the American Camp Association Illinois Section and regularly speaks at regional and national camp conferences and diversity conferences. Besides spending time with his wife Natasha and adventurous son Mico, Kevin enjoys playing goalie on his men’s ice hockey team.

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Respected parenting and youth development expert, Deborah Gilboa, MD, is the founder of AskDoctorG.com. Dr. G’s passion for raising kids with character makes her a popular family physician, media personality, author, and speaker. A parent of four sons, she inspires audiences with her illuminating stories and actionable tools to develop crucial life skills in children ages 2-22.

Dr. G is a board certified family medicine attending physician at Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill Health Center, caring for religiously, culturally, and linguistically diverse patients from over 100 countries and 47 different languages. Her work with the Deaf community has received national recognition and was the focus of her research and service as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow.

She has received multiple awards for clinical excellence in teaching, including the Alpha Omega Alpha Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award as a Clinical Associate Professor for the University of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine.

Dr. G is on the advisory boards for Responsibility.org for promoting alcohol responsibility and Cybersmile Foundation to prevent cyber bullying.

A graduate of University of Pittsburgh’s SOM and Carnegie Melon University, as well as alumnus of Chicago’s Second City Improv Theater, Dr. G’s diverse background, interests and experiences add to her credibility and lively story-telling.

Dr. G is the author of multiple books including her latest, Get the Behavior You Want, Without Being the Parent You Hate! (Demos Publishing, 2014)

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Thanks in part to his degree in Architecture and an MBA from Purdue, Gary has been a popular conference presenter for over 20 years, first gaining notoriety for his camp design and maintenance expertise and results-oriented marketing.

As executive director of Camp Jewell YMCA in Connecticut, Gary assembled and inspired a team that became an incubator for camp program, facility, marketing, and operation innovations that continues to draw visiting camp leaders to see what they have heard and read about in Gary’s countless presentations and magazine articles. More than 20 Jewell alumni are now year-round camp directors around the United States.

But it was the independent research Gary began while he was the YMCA’s National Camping Specialist and served on the American Camp Association National Board that his greatest contribution to youth development emerged. Visiting over 250 camps and annually surveying thousands of parents and campers, Gary began helping camps make dramatic enrollment improvements through a disciplined focus on fewer things rather than more.

Gary even met his wife Meg at summer camp 30 years ago when she was the camp nurse. Bradenton Florida is now their base-camp, from which he travels to 35 camps and a dozen conferences each year, consulting and presenting on operations and risk management, programming and marketing, staff selection and training, and of course, camp facility design!

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Faith Evans, who holds an MEd in Gifted Education, has worked with camp professionals for more than 45 years. Faith applauds Plato, who said, “You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than a lifetime of conversation.” She is a nationally acclaimed camp staff trainer, team builder, author, and speaker. Faith has received rave reviews for her interactive workshops that make action-learning fun and relevant. She is the CEO of PlayFully, Inc, and resides happily near Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

Faith specializes in experiential learning with small and large groups in the areas of relationship building, creativity, problem solving, leadership, communication, and play for a purpose…or for no purpose!

The American Camp Association twice honored Faith for her outstanding staff training and for excellence in writing for Camping Magazine. The Association for Experiential Education has also honored Faith for her innovative work with youth development professionals.

Faith has written numerous book chapters and articles about play and teambuilding and is a long-standing member of ACA. Her newest book, “The More The Merrier—Games for Large Groups” has received high praise and “99 of the Best Experiential Games We Know,” which Faith co-authored, is a perennial best-seller.

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Jack Erler is an attorney in Portland, Maine. Jack earned his BA in psychology from Grinnell College and his JD from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

For over 35 years Jack has been representing youth camps in all aspects of their operation including issues related to children, employment, health and safety, regulatory compliance, organizational structure, land use, environmental, tax, purchase and sale transactions and transition planning.

In addition, Jack represents and lobbies for youth camp organizations. Jack is the recipient of the Halsey Gulick Award for distinguished service to the organized camping movement in Maine.

Jack worked with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to draft the original youth camp rules in 1974 and assisted in each subsequent substantive revision. He is a member of the American Camp Association.

Jack is a speaker on legal issues affecting youth camping including the duty of care, risk management, child abuse, sexual harassment, laws regulating alcohol, drugs and tobacco and confidentiality.

For more than sixty years, Jack has been in camp as a camper, then counselor, activity director, unit director and assistant camp director. His wife, Ellen and his children, Mark, Todd and Anne also have extensive camp and youth development backgrounds.

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