Sarah Menon, Chair & Camp Quest Chesapeake Representative

When not immersed in camp-related activities, Sarah works as a homeland security analyst specializing in understanding and improving community resilience to emergencies and disasters. Sarah holds a M.A. in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University; she holds B.S.'s from MIT in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She lives in Arlington, VA with her husband and spends her free time rock climbing, running, and scuba diving.

Katie Hladky, Secretary & Camp Quest Ohio Representative

Dr. Katie Hladky completed her PhD in Religion at Florida State University in 2011 and works as an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston. Katie serves as the faculty adviser for the College of Charleston's Atheist-Humanist Alliance and is working to complete her first book "Chasing the American Dream," a study of Trinity Broadcasting Network and the prosperity-based Faith movement.  Involved with Camp Quest since 2002, Katie is the Secretary of Camp Quest's National Board of Directors and the Secretary of Camp Quest Ohio's planning committee. As the assistant camp director of CQ Ohio, Katie is in charge of discipline and runs a daily program educating campers about world religions. Her favorite activities include: swimming, team games, performing in skits, making s'mores, and getting messy.

Norm Barrett Wiik, Treasurer

Norm has been involved with the freethought movement since 1998 when he joined the group now known as the Campus Atheists, Skeptics, and Humanists (CASH) at the University of Minnesota.  He was a founding board member of Camp Quest of Minnesota in 2003 and has served on it in various capacities ever since.  He was also a counselor during CQ MN's first 5 years of operation, and has represented MN on the CQ. Inc. board since 2007.  Currently he is the treasurer for both organizations.  In his spare time Norm is an avid gamer, enjoys baseball, and reads a great deal of history and science fiction.  Recently he earned his Masters of Public Policy from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.  Norm lives with his wife Katie in Shoreview, MN and they have a young son.

Amanda K. Metskas, Executive Director

Amanda K. Metskas is the executive director of Camp Quest, Inc. She has been involved with Camp Quest since 2003, and served on the board of directors from 2004-2007.  Amanda became executive director when Camp Quest, Inc. hired her as its first staff person in January 2008. As executive director, Amanda focuses on providing coordination and support services to all of the Camp Quest programs, and helps launch new Camp Quest camps across North America.

In addition to her work with Camp Quest, Amanda is the Vice President of the Humanist Community of Central Ohio.  She co-authored Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief with Dale McGowan, Molleen Matsumura and Jan Devor.  Amanda holds an M.A. in political science from The Ohio State University, and a B.A. in international relations and psychology from Brown University.  She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband August E. Brunsman IV and their two cats.

Brennon Church, Camp Quest NorthWest Representative

Brennon was raised without religion by agnostic parents. After the births of his own children, he became committed to help foster critical thinking in the next generation. He is a member of Seattle Atheists and a founding member of Camp Quest NorthWest. He also volunteers as a Homework Helper with the Seattle Public Library. In his free time, Brennon likes to bike, read, jog and play Civilization.

Jeff Duncan, Camp Quest Michigan Representative

Jeff is a professional firefighter/paramedic, husband, and father, who believes that helping to inoculate children against the harmful effects of superstitious thought, is one of the most important things that he can accomplish, during his precious time here on earth.  Jeff is Camp Director of Camp Quest of Michigan.  He enjoys spending time in Northern Michigan, swimming, biking, hunting, scuba diving, kayaking, and observing the beauty of natural things.  Jeff plays guitar, drums, and bagpipes and enjoys writing songs and poetry.

Mary Eversole, Camp Quest Oklahoma Representative

Mary started her involvement with Camp Quest Texas, and served as the Camp Quest Texas Camp Director in 2011.  She wanted to bring the Camp Quest experience to families closer to home, and so she is working with members of the Atheists of Oklahoma (A-OK), and the Atheist Community of Tulsa (ACT) to start Camp Quest Oklahoma.

In addition to her work with Camp Quest, Mary is a certified massage therapist.  She and her husband Kevin are members of the Tulsa Atheist Alliance.  They also own a tatoo and body piercing shop.

Amanda Hendrix, Camp Quest West Representative

Amanda Hendrix has been a Camp Quest West counselor for two years. She works full time at a tech company, and goes to school part time. Next year she will be transferring to school full time to get a degree in Sociology. She’s recently learned to play drums, and loves everything about nature including identifying flora and fauna, stargazing, and all there is to learning about how nature works. Amanda lives in Nevada City with her husband Mike.

Han Hills, Member At Large

Originally from the UK, Han moved to the US seven years ago and lives and works in Wilmington, North Carolina. Raised in a Humanist household, he has long had a passion to spread the word on Freethinking.

Han serves as the President of the Humanists and Freethinkers of Cape Fear, as well as on the boards of other Freethought organizations, including Camp Quest South Carolina where he is Vice-chair. He is the host of the Cape Reason podcast and recently chaired the first regional Carolinas Secular Conference. He is a class member of the Humanist Institute and works on many diverse local, regional and national projects to help build the Humanist movement. With a background in business, finance and technology, Han brings a practical goal oriented approach to everything. In what free time remains he is passionate about film, history and the written word. Han is a big fan of cheese.

Bobbie Kirkhart, Member At Large

Bobbie Kirkhart grew up a very religious child in a devout liberal Protestant family in Enid, Oklahoma. At the University of Oklahoma, she majored in journalism and taught a Sunday school class.  After college, she became a social worker in South Central Los Angeles, serving mostly black and Latina single mothers. Her work experience eventually caused her to reevaluate her belief in an omnipotent, omnibenevolent god, and after further consideration she became an atheist.

Many years later Bobbie became active in the freethought community, joining Atheists United in 1983.  Since then Bobbie has served as president of Atheist Alliance International, and as vice president of the Secular Coalition for America. In addition to her work with Camp Quest, she is currently president of Atheists United, and a board member of Atheist Alliance of America.

Bobbie is a contributing author in three books: Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion; The Fundamentals of Extremism: the Christian Right in America; and Everything You Know About God Is Wrong (the Book).  She is a widow, with one daughter, and two grandsons.

Amy Monsky, Camp Quest South Carolina Representative

Amy has been involved in the freethought community since 2008 when she was delighted to discover there was one.  A fellow member of her local humanist group turned her on to Camp Quest and she knew immediately it was something she wanted to be involved in.  Since that time, Amy has served on staff at Camp Quest Ohio and Camp Quest Chesapeake.  Pulling from her experience at both CQ Ohio and CQ Chesapeake, Amy started a new Camp Quest location in South Carolina where she is the Camp Director.  After a successful Family Weekend Camp in the fall of 2011, Amy and the rest of her team are eagerly planning Camp Quest South Carolina's first week-long camp in the summer of 2012.

Amy is passionate about building and strengthening a supportive community for humanist families.  In addition to Camp Quest, she serves on the board of and is the Family Activities Coordinator for the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry.  She is also a founding leader of the Secular Humanist Families of Charleston.  Amy and her husband live in Charleston, SC with their 3 children, a cat, a dog, and any snake, lizard, or tadpoles that are unfortunate enough to be found by the children.

Chelsea Pavey, Member At Large

Chelsea Pavey has been involved with Camp Quest since 1997. Chelsea spent several years as a camper at Camp Quest Ohio, moved up to be a counselor there, and now is the Program Director for Camp Quest Ohio. Chelsea also helped in the inaugural years of Chesapeake and South Carolina and serving as Assistant Camp Director at both camps in 2011. She is excited to see more children grow up with Camp Quest as she did.
During the part of the year that Chelsea is not at a Camp Quest, she attends Georgia State majoring in Managerial Science and Business Economics, while working in Downtown Atlanta as a regional sales assistant. She has lived in Atlanta her whole life and spends her free time exploring the area, reading, and following Atlanta sports.

Bob Ready, Camp Quest Minnesota Representative

Bob has been a counselor for 4 years and a board member for 3 for Camp Quest of Minnesota.  His connection to Camp Quest started in 2008 when he passed by a Camp Quest table at the American Atheists national convention in Minneapolis. Bob signed up to volunteer for the 2008 camp session, and he has considered camp the best thing he does ever since.

In his non-camp life, Bob is pursuing further education in the interest of becoming a public advocate for science and science education, which currently has him studying biology at the University of Iowa and looking for graduate programs. Bob is a former chancellor for his business fraternity, and he has served on the board of directors of the Iowa Secularists. He also works from home doing remote tech support. Bob spends his free time in diverse ways when he actually has it, and they can usually be stereotyped as extremely nerdy.

Erin Taylor, Camp Quest Texas Representative

Erin has been involved with Camp Quest Texas since their kickoff one day camp in 2009.  She specializes in leading hikes and other activities that help children understand and appreciate the natural world.  Erin also serves on the Camp Quest Texas board, where she is one of the key planners of upcoming camp sessions.

In addition to her work with Camp Quest, Erin works on children's environmental education programs for the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area.

Chantal Yacavone, Camp Quest Montana Representative

Chantal is one of the directors of Camp Quest Montana.  She lives in beautiful Big Sky Country with her husband Rob and their four children, Vincent, Pascale, Garrett, and Tony.  As a teen growing up in Virginia, Chantal attended a really great science/nature camp at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Since then, it has been her dream to open a camp for kids that featured hands on activities that foster thinking, observation, and interaction with the natural world.  Chantal was a teacher for five years before quitting to raise her children.  Since then she has been a “professional volunteer."  Chantal served her local school district as School Board Chair for five of the past six years. She also spent three years as president of the school's Booster Club.  Chantal and her family live on a ten acre farm where they raise mostly sheep along with some goats, chickens, horses, dogs, and cats. She just recently started a business, and her husband is a successful gastroenterologist.