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Camp Quest West Key Contacts

Chris Lindstrom
Camp Director
50 W. Edith Ave #2
Los Altos, CA 94022
(650) 949-3192
1-866-896-5217 (Fax)
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Chris Lindstrom is a software engineer by day and uses her superpowers for good during her off hours organizing Camp Quest West. She has been involved in the Freethought movement for over 10 years, organizing   meetings, letter writing campaigns, protests, rallies, dialogs and more. She served on the board of the Silicon Valley's Humanist Community for three years and is passionate about making non-belief a "mainstream" viable alternative.

She was talked into recruiting volunteers to start Camp Quest on the west coast because she thinks many of the world's problems could be solved if we did a better job of teaching youngsters to think critically for themselves. She is working with the others on the team to transition Camp Quest West from a small and scrappy volunteer organization to a solid institution that will outlive us all.
 

Marketing Director TBD
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Adrienne Mowery
Treasurer
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Adrienne originally hails from Texas, but has spent the last 8 years in San Francisco, CA. After 10 years as a project manager in the IT industry, Adrienne will soon be pursuing a master’s degree in Interior Architecture & Design. In her spare time, she enjoys adding stamps to her passport, photography and making photo books for her friends, playing on her computer, volunteering as a local guide for tourists, practicing yoga, watching reality tv, and making lists of things to do.

For the past 5 years Adrienne has been treasurer for San Francisco Atheists, gives speeches on the importance of civil liberties and tolerance for the non-religious community, and also volunteers with the Garrison-Martineau Project, a group that brings believers and non-believers together for open dialogue. Adrienne has been on staff  with Camp Quest West for the last 3 years as a volunteer, camp counselor and now treasurer, and believes that connecting with youth is one of our most important goals in the non-religious community.
 

Roy
Staffing Director
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Roy is a 56 year old forensic engineer living in Kentucky. He is single, with two adult children. Roy is a lifelong freethinker who has attended about a dozen Camp Quests in three states and Canada. He's a former Senior Division baseball coach and scholastic chess team organizer, having founded the Kentucky state scholastic championships in the latter and coached two teams that won it. Among his favorite pastimes are rock climbing, music, and reading.

Gloria
Registrar
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Gloria grew up in Europe/Germany, and moved to the U.S. 15 years ago after  traveling around the globe. She loves to travel and experience new cultures and languages. She is a military wife with two teenagers who love attending Camp Quest West.

Gloria works full time as a cardiac nurse and also teaches Yoga. She has been a vegetarian for 27 years. She enjoys nature, organic gardening, and animals, and says she really "should be living on a farm since I keep adopting more and more" animals. While living in Texas, she volunteered for the ASPCA   Mobile Adoption Program and developed and ran a Pet Visitation Program for them.

Now she enjoys volunteering for future generations of secular children at Camp Quest West. She loves being a parent and enjoys watching her children grow up into independent adults who think for themselves. 
 

Bev Church
Fundraising Chair
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Bev is a registered nurse. She has been a Freethinker since about age 12. She didn't discover organized Humanist and Atheist groups until age 50, but is making up for lost time. She is an absolute dynamo with a hand in many different service organizations. She currently serves on Board of Directors of the American Humanist Association and is the vice president of the Humanist Association of the Greater Sacramento Area. She has also served on the board of Atheists and other Freethinkers where she is still a member. Bev believes in the next generation of Freethought and is helping us make this happen.
 

Sean Laney
Program Director
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Sean C. Laney is an entrepreneur and single father. He spreads his working time between running a real estate/land development company (yes, it hurts right now) and a limousine/entertainment company (likewise), with a little left over to look for new opportunities in a variety of areas. He is a proud father of 3, and homeschools the 2 older kids (alumni of Camp Quest West). He has been an atheist and freethinker most of his life, having been lucky enough not to be religiously indoctrinated as a young child.

Possessed of chronic insufficient reluctance to volunteer, he was roped into becoming the archery instructor last year by our charismatic organizer, Chris Lindstrom. Like our fearless leader, he shares the view that teaching children critical thinking is an important key to a brighter future. In furtherance of such, he has volunteered once again to help as the Program Director of Camp Quest West
 

Julie Willey
Mini-Family Camp
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Julie Willey is the primary driving force behind our Mini Family Camp for 2008! She is a mother of 4 great kids and an electrical engineer. When she is not goofing off with her kids she enjoys tinkering with all things electro-mechanical. Julie has a passion for learning, creating and collaborating. Julie and her family are active in the Silicon Valley Humanist Family Co-op program.
 

 

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