Eduardo has been a leader in the summer and out-of-school time field since the age of 12. From middle school through college, he worked his way up each summer from volunteer to Assistant Camp Director for San Francisco Recreation & Parks. After graduating Cornell University with a degree in Psychology, Eduardo became a Center Director for SCORE! Educational Centers, an afterschool tutoring subsidiary of Kaplan. Four years later he combined his passion for camp and learning and co-founded Edventure More with his dear friend and mentor, Sharon Mor. Eduardo’s passion for enrichment lives through his work and his commitment to bring equal access to high-quality enrichment to all children. In addition to serving as Executive Director of Edventure More, Eduardo has been active on the SF Department of Children & Youth’s Summer Work Group, The Big Lift collaborative’s Inspiring Summers Workgroup in the Peninsula, the Marin Promise in Marin County and the Oakland Summer Learning Network. He has also represented the Bay Area at summer funding lobbying events at the state capitol through CalSAC. Eduardo contributes to the field as a speaker at local and national summer and afterschool conferences. He has led workshops on Authentic Leadership, The Maker Mindset, and Social Emotional Learning at the National Summer Learning Association Conference, National Afterschool Association Conference, BOOST, and SXSWedu. He has completed the Leadership for Equity & Opportunity (LEO) learning-in-action program and is learning to be a better equity ally every day.

Sharon is devoted to making the world a better place by helping people foster, express and be their authentic selves in both their work and personal lives. For the last 25 years of her professional life, Sharon has devoted herself to leadership development, transformational work and education. A graduate of UCLA, Sharon is also a Hoffman Institute Teacher, a certified Life Coach and a Master Business Coach, and has integrated all of her trainings to create an internal coaching program where EDMO® staff are encouraged and celebrated for doing courageous personal and professional work. To Sharon there is no better time than right now to guide both adults and children to be kind, courageous and curious.

Courtney has held a variety of roles at Camp EDMO® since February 2012 and has most recently stepped into the COO role after our pivot into the world of online learning! She has been working to educate children in a variety of settings since she was 13 years old, starting as the manager of a kid’s martial arts program and then finding her passion for summer camp when she began directing a Humane Education camp while working towards her Animal Science degree. After graduating from Calpoly, San Luis Obispo and spending many years in the shelter industry, including working for two years as a surgery technician for veterinary medicine, she decided to make the exciting switch to a full-time emphasis on education with her move to the Bay Area to join Camp EDMO®. When Courtney isn’t working she is hanging out at home with her new baby girl and two awesome pups.

Sarah has been working at the intersection of education and philanthropy for the past 18 years. Sarah is a “get to the point” passionate relationship-builder who specializes in helping organizations and their people make an impact through fundraising. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Sarah loves connecting with people and building community, finding joy personally and professionally in facilitating meaning in people’s lives.

Rachel is excited to take on the role as Recruiting & HR Manager! After directing camp 3 years ago, she fell in love with all things EDMO and never left. Growing up Rachel was a serial day camper turned CIT and counselor. She’s a huge fan of what camp experiences can do to enhance a child’s growth and capacity to learn. Before going back to school for her masters in advertising, she taught enrichment classes, worked at an after-school program, and taught first grade and Kindergarten. Prior to joining the EDMO team, Rachel spent her days teaching and training adults on how to improve their work performance and helping brands build connections with their customers. This experience helped her figure out her love for Human Resources with a strong focus on the human part! She’s been the Recruiting Manager for the last year and is now delighted to take on all other parts of Human Resources. Outside of work, Rachel likes to read, write, explore, cuddle with her cats, and see live music (stream it for the time being).

Kendra has always wanted to work with children and joined EDMO® with years of experience working in various educational roles. She earned a degree in Education and her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. While earning her degree, Kendra worked at the local humane society where she directed a humane education camp. Kendra spent her first four summers with EDMO® working as an Instructor and Director for the Palo Alto and Fremont locations and has spent the past three years as the South Bay/Peninsula Region Manager and School Year Programs Manager. Kendra is now in the exciting new role of Programs Director where she is excited to continue to develop and create new programs for EDMO® while getting to provide development and training for programs staff.

Growing up, Mandee spent the majority of her days at her mom's in-home daycare, where she developed a passion for helping children grow. She took this passion for helping all children learn and began working as a behavioral therapist, providing ABA therapy to children with special needs. While attending college to obtain her teaching credential Mandee worked as the assistant director for a preschool, which is where she found she excelled the most by assisting and building rapport with families from behind the scenes. After exploring different opportunities in Customer Relations over the years, Mandee found her dream company when she joined the EDMO® team in Spring 2019 as an Administrative Assistant. Mandee is now stepping into the role of Customer Relations Director where she strives to provide all of our EDMO® families with the best Customer Service possible and is thrilled about building a team that shares in that same drive.

Joe is a programmer, designer, gamer, and educator. Since graduating from UC Santa Cruz in 2013 with a major in Computer Game Design, he’s worked to harness the power of games in education — writing game-based curriculum, developing game-based learning resources for other educators, and generally keeping classroom computers from catching fire. Having initially joined EDMO™ in 2016 as a tech curriculum writer, Joe now leads the IT & Systems department, programming and maintaining new tools to help streamline EDMO’s operations as much as possible. Though he now spends most of his time weaving the mystic runes of Google Spreadsheets, he still finds time to help build a new lesson plan in Minecraft here and there.

Ash Forrest is a marketing support and digital creative for EDMO. She is passionate about social justice and equity in arts and education. She is also an abstract artist!

Brittny is pleased to be a new addition to the EDMO team as the Curriculum Manager. She has been a high school science teacher for the last 8 years as well as an Activities Director and ASB Leadership Program Director. In her years as an educator, she has taught Chemistry, Earth Science, Health, AVID and Leadership. Her love for camp was birthed from attending summer camps as a kid and working summers as a camp counselor at the Learn-by-doing Lab Summer Camp, at her alma mater, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She is passionate about helping campers connect with their innate creativity and fostering community amongst differing race, gender and economic backgrounds. She loves nature, reading, good food, comedy and of course, Harry Potter.

After her tenure at California State University Chico, Kenia joined the EDMO® Sacramento team when the region debuted in 2015. With her early childhood care experience and good-heartedness, Kenia has risen through the ranks from School Year Presenter, to Summer Instructor, to Camp Director, to the year-round EDMO Junior Pre-K Curriculum Manager and Sacramento Area Outreach Manager to Programs Manager for EDMO Live!. You can find her starring in several EDMO® YouTube curriculum videos or stepping in as the fearless Camp Director of our Rocklin camp. Kenia loves to work with children of all ages and loves how the organization values completely align with her values. Kenia’s passion is to create fun and educational projects that make kids fall in love with science.

After spending two summers as the Rocklin Camp Director and three summers as the Sacramento Region Manager, Miranda is thrilled for her 6th year with EDMO as a General Programs Manager. She graduated from California State University, Chico with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and has a passion for teaching science! Miranda worked as an Camp EDMO® instructor, an instructor at Chico State’s Hands-On Science Lab, worked as a summer camp leader for the Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe, and was previously the Camp EDMO® School Year Programs Coordinator for the Sacramento area. She’s also a nationally certified EMT to help keep the kiddos safe! Miranda can’t wait to continue bringing her summer camp spirit and experience with EDMO® to the home office team. She loves science and camp!

Janise is excited to return to EDMO as a Programs Manager! Janise joined EDMO 4 years ago as an instructor and then became a Camp Director for the next 3 years. Janise has always had a passion for education and programming so she is excited to use her experience and education to continue supporting EDMO families and staff. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Janise continued her education at the University of Houston. While completing her Masters in Higher Education, Janise worked in student activities and career services. Janise has worked with students from pre-k to graduate students and believes in empowering others to be who they are and chase their dreams. When Janise is not working, she is working on completing a doctorate degree in education, performing spoken word, reading, hiking, and volunteering.

My name is Helena Ortiz and I have been working with the youth for over 11 years. I am a mother to a 7-year-old girl who I love to spend time with. Besides spending time with my daughter I love to shop, eat and enjoy the outdoors. This will be my second school year with Camp EDMO and I am very excited to have fun with the students and be able to provide a safe, engaging and eventful program. I look forward to having your child attend our program and continue to expand their learning!

Dustyn is excited to join the EDMO IT team! Originally from Southern California, Dustyn currently lives near Kansas City with his wife and four kids. A graduate of Missouri Western State University with a degree in History and Philosophy, Dustyn has spent his career working with children either in the non-profit field or as an educator. He is a huge fan of music and plays guitar, piano, drums, saxophone, bass, and pretty much anything he can get his hands on. He and his family love to travel and take trips as often as possible. His overall life ambition is to turn into Captain Ron and spend his life sailing.

Amy has joined the EDMO team after spending the last 8 years working in education. Amy brings with her a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, a Masters’s degree in Education, and two years of coding and robotics education. She has worked with kids from ages 4 to 14 (and their teachers) and knows that there is something special to be discovered and learned at any age! Amy is excited to be joining EDMO as a Curriculum Developer so that she can continue to create new and exciting activities for kids of all ages. After work, Amy loves spending time outside, learning new recipes in the kitchen, and planning trips to new places!

Monique is excited to be the new Customer Relationship Specialist, and looks forward to helping parents, children and colleagues leave every interaction feeling better than when they arrived. Her mission in life is to guide communication between individuals and their highest selves. She models this through her continuous pursuit of holistic wellness, trauma-informed healing, and ability to cultivate authentic relationships grounded in joy, respect and loads of fun. A lifelong writer, she moved to the Bay Area in 2015 to finish obtaining her B.A. in English Literature from UC Berkeley. After a decade of working in hospitality and helping build small businesses, Monique is pleased to have entered the nonprofit world with EDMO. She is continually inspired by EDMO’s social-emotional learning tools that value individual learning styles and help children and adults become more compassionate and curious humans. In her free time, you can catch her posting stories and recipes to her blog, adventuring outdoors, studying to become a yoga teacher, practicing mindfulness meditation, watching too much 90 Day Fiance, and slowing down to savor the present moment, especially when it involves biting into a warm chocolate chip cookie.