Welcome to YEA Camp - A Summer Camp for Social Change
Thanks for your interest in YEA (rhymes with Hey!) Camp and making our world a better place!
OK, we admit we’re biased, but YEA Camp really might be the most amazing place on the planet.
Since 2009, we've been training some of the most amazing people on the planet to make a bigger difference on the social justice causes they care about -- all while having what many of our campers call the best week of their life!
Learn More About Our Work
Want help getting started or getting serious in your activism?
Download our ebook, The Beginner's Guide to Changing the World, for free to learn more about our approach to activism and to take your change-making to new heights!
We're proud to have trained and encouraged thousands of up-and-coming changemakers through our in-person summer camps since 2009!
In 2024, we're reinventing ourselves and taking a hiatus to create new programs to reach even more people in the future.
It's hard to believe that we've been running YEA Camps for longer than our campers have been alive! We've been at this a while!
We gathered 100 or so of our favorite camper thank you letters to celebrate!
Who We Are

Not your typical summer camp counselors.
Every summer since YEA Camp began in 2009, we've brought together the most amazing group of changemakers we can find to help train our campers to make a bigger difference on social justice issues from climate change to racism, LGBTQ+ rights to animal rights.
Our staff has decades of experience working on a variety of causes and want to support you in making a bigger difference on the issues most important to you.
Our campers go on to do such inspiring things -- from raising thousands of dollars for the causes of their choice, launching voter registration drives, changing school and corporate policies, organizing rallies, and so much more. And many of the more than 1,000 campers who have gone through our programs commonly describe YEA Camp as critically important in helping them to get more active on a cause they care about -- or even as one of the greatest experiences of their life.
We're here to help you make a bigger difference in a way that inspires you -- because we could all use a little help making a big difference.
Meet Our Founder!

Nora Kramer
Founder & Executive Director
It took 8 years from when our founder, Nora Kramer, first had the idea to start a summer camp for aspiring activists until finally launching YEA Camp in 2009.
During those 8 years, she set out to become the person she felt she needed to be to run the life-changing and world-changing camp she wanted to exist. Obsessed, she worked as a full-time activist, got her teaching credential and taught high school English, spent 3 years in intensive communication and leadership training and coaching, studied social movements and many interconnected social injustices, and worked at and learned from 4 different camps around the country that were the closest thing she could find to what she envisioned.
Now in our second decade of YEA Camp, Nora has spent about half of her life devoted to training others to make a bigger difference on the social justice causes they care most about.
Meet Some of Our Amazing YEA Camp Staff!
Most of our staff only work at 1-2 sessions per summer, and we may still be finalizing who will be working at which/your session, but check out some of the bios of our staff below to get a sense of the type of people who work at YEA Camp, if not the exact staff members for your upcoming session.

Laura Carver

Aaron Sorto

Danielle Holtz

Martina Gaurderer

Monica Carr

Natalie Christensen

Jeri Schneider

Amanda Farman

Leanne Alaman

Alice Ragland

Diana Frances

Melissa Bergman

Pierce Delahunt

Anthony Pizzo

Hannah Rosenberg

Erin Hiebert

Elizabeth Buechele

Ananya Singh

Kameke Brown

Michael McLendon

Shelby Kim

Miranda Snyder

Rachael Weinberg

Joyce Frink

Andina Aste-Nieto

Charles Orgbon

Lydia Harris

Michael Starkey

Xiao Kuang

Chloe Pearson

Jen Hung

Katerra Martin

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Thanks so much for your interest in our work and for all you do to make our world a better place.