camp quest smoky mountains
Dave Mason
Board Member
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Dave (he/him) joined the Camp Quest Smoky Mountains board in 2024. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC and brings experience from serving on previous boards including the Red Hat Foundation, GNOME Foundation, and Triangle Artworks. He is a classically trained musician, a mountaineer, traveler, and proud doggie parent.
Kristi Cummings
Secretary
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Kristi (she/her) has been a Camp Quest parent since 2012 and joined the CQ Smoky Mountains board in 2020. In her professional life, she's an IT project manager and Certified Business Analysis Professional. She's an Air Force veteran and used her GI Bill benefits to attend culinary school. Her hobbies are cooking, hiking the Smokies, and officiating secular weddings as a Humanist Celebrant.
Kristi's favorite freethinker is her Dad, a voracious reader and lifelong learner who introduced her to the writings of Robert A. Heinlein.
Timothy Gerla
Camp Director, 2024
Treasurer
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Tim (he/him) joined Camp Quest Smoky Mountains in 2016 as a cabin counselor. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his dogs and partner, and enjoys exploring nature, building things, and occasionally playing the piano. Before he moved to Chapel Hill, he served on the board of SkeptiCal, the Northern California Conference on Science and Skepticism.
Gretchen Moebes
Board Member
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Gretchen (she/her) began attending CQSM in 2013. After aging out she began working as a cabin counselor. Gretchen is a lover of crafting, music, and the outdoors. Thanks to a scholarship from the Taco Bell Foundation, she is currently working on her B.A. in parks and recreation management at Western Carolina University. She currently considers herself a professional concert goer and La Croix drinker. Mountain and gravel biking are a big part of her life and she races when it sounds like a party. Gretchen prefers oat milk in her coffee and adventure in her life.
Noah Davis
Assistant Camp Director, Board Member
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Noah Davis (he/him/his) has been a Camp Quest Smoky Mountains volunteer ever since he heard about the Camp Quest organization while attending undergrad in 2019. During that time he was the president of a local chapter of the secular student alliance and a secular talk show host for his college radio station. Professionally Noah is a customer service representative for a tech company, and a graduate student studying supply chain management.
Noah is known at camp for being a river time fanatic, and has a special love for the river systems that he regularly swims and fishes. Both in his home state of Alabama and his home away from home in the Smokies.
Meredith Porter
Past Camp Director, board member
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Meredith has been a member of the CQSM community since 2012 and took over as Camp Director in August 2019. By day, she works in international development. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Albania, where she adopted her cat, Kajsi. In her spare time, Meredith enjoys camping, traveling, gardening, and making up moderately successful recipes.