Riese is the aspiring power lesbian who invented A-Camp and is the Co-Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Autostraddle.com. She is a GLAAD-award-nominated journalist as well as an other-award-winning blogger, fictionist, video-maker and copy-writer. Her work has appeared in magazines including Marie Claire and Curve and online including Nylon, Jezebel and Emily Books. 

Sarah is a biracial femme designer living in Portland. For years she toiled away as a corporate ad drone before being whisked into the dreamy, glittery world of Autostraddle. When she’s not designing new merch, ordering the business womens special, or finding cool sponsors for camp, she’s taking extraordinarily long baths and dancing her brains out. She once recieved the award for “Friendliest Camper” at age 8.

"Some of the most wonderful people don't fit into boxes" — Tori Amos

Reneice is a black, queer, plus size femme living in Los Angeles. This gives her lots of content for her position as a Staff Writer at Autostraddle, and her work as a life coach for creatives in LA. She worked really hard and spent way too much money on her Masters in Social Work from New York University, and is an active and vocal advocate for racial equality and justice, LGBTQ rights, feminism, and body positivity. She has a serious obsession with robes and cookbooks, and loves yoga, brunch, and succulents like any good millenial angeleno should.

This is Lauren's fifth A-Camp! She is a new resident of Portland by way of NYC. She is a musician, woodworker, and driver of a super sweet moped named RBG! A lot of people call her Karen!

"live, laugh, love" – author unknown

UCLA social psychology PhD / professional data nerd. Volunteer crisis counselor experienced in emergency mental health services. Amateur mindfulness practitioner trained at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. After ten years of academic research, she's applying her expertise in the psychology of human behavior to help organizations optimize their services using a research-based approach. Also known as Liz From Accounting, because she probably won't approve your budget request.

"Love don't cost a thing." - J.LO

Alaina is a newly knighted Master of performance studies and current PhD student. They are obsessed with monograms, navy, and tan leather. They only love their cats, their bed, and their mama. A-Camp X will be their sixth camp, and they're thrilled to maybe learn how to do a cartwheel this year. Chat with them about gender and bodies, rituals, performance, play, and BDSM (duh).

Alexis Smithers is a queer black creator based on the East Coast. Featured in wusgood.black, Glass: Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and Freezeray Poetry among others, they’ve interned and worked for Winter Tangerine, interned at Aplastic Anemia & MDS Foundation, volunteered for Self Care After Rape, worked for Voicemail Poems and volunteered for the 2016 Tandem Reader Awards as their Social Media and Technology Intern. They’ve written for 365daysoflesbians, Monstering Mag, and Winter Tangerine among others. They are a 2015 Pink Door Fellow, 2016 LAMBDA Literary Young Adult Fiction Fellow, and 2018 #GrowWithGoogle Udacity Scholarship Student. A web development student at Bloc.io, they work in food production and are staff writer for Autostraddle.

A.E. Osworth is Part-Time Faculty at The New School, where they teach digital storytelling, and they are also the Managing Editor of Scholar and Feminist Online at Barnard Center for Research on Women (Barnard College). They have spent the last half a decade as the Geekery Editor at Autostraddle, where they are now a Staff Writer, and have just finished a novel inspired by the events of Gamergate.

Alyssa is a tiny thirty-something hanky-in-the-pocket cartoonist weirdo constantly working to evolve her art processes and communicate new ideas. They spent the majority of their young life sketching in hospitals, and experienced their first heartbreak at age 8 during game 6 of the '96 NBA championships.

Archie is a professional non-nerdy cartoonist, half of The Fist You Podcast, zine-maker, sexual health educator, and overall an overcommitted busy person. Their new book, A Quick And Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns, comes out this June. They will always eat the entire bag of Doritos in one sitting.

Audrey lives, writes, and eats their vegetables in Dallas, TX. They're ready to talk about bisexuality, faith, and feelings at A-Camp X and also extremely ready for that water slide.

Lover of animals, spreadsheets and warm socks, not necessarily in that order. Main goals in life are learning and laughing, both things she expects to do A LOT at A-Camp. She got engaged at A-Camp. She got married at A-Camp. She has a cat and a dog that miss her when she's at A-Camp.

Brittney Williams draws cartoons, superheroes, and queer comics for kids. Twice GLAAD award nominee. Aspiring weightlifter.

Cameron is a professional midwesterner and a monthly cartoonist for Autostraddle. She loves bourbon and Cranium and brooding and casual astrology and the fact that Stef has not broken her ankle again (yet). She is now uncomfortable with how many times she used "she" to refer to herself. Also excited to learn what vitamin D is in California.

Carolyn is a hard femme writer and editor with a focus on the intersection of sexuality with cultural issues and public life. She’s written about sex, kink, queerness, polyamory, culture, feminism, bodies, ideas, and her personal life for places like Autostraddle, Nylon, Bitch, Refinery29, The Toast and more. She’s Canadian and currently lives in Los Angeles.

Cee is the Tech Director of Autostraddle - they do all the technical things for the website which include coding, maintaining the servers, keeping everything working, and helping the writers and editors automate things so they can spend their time writing and making great content for you! They also run a small WordPress based website development company. When they're not in front of a computer, they like gardening, making things, tinkering with their house, reading, cooking and baking, traveling, hiking/camping, community building, being outside enjoying nature, and listening to music. They're poly, and are lucky to have really amazing partners. They live in Portland, OR with their two kittens, Tucker and Finley. This will be their 9th A-Camp.

UCLA social psychology PhD / professional data nerd. Volunteer crisis counselor with eight years of experience in emergency mental health services. Amateur mindfulness practitioner trained at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Crafty DIYke with a chemical dependence on green tea. After ten years of academic research, she's applying her expertise in the psychology of human behavior to help organizations optimize their services using a research-based approach. As A-camp’s chief R&D consultant, she wants to pester you with a million annoying questions to help A-camp be even more sparkly and queer!

Gia (or Gigs!) is a jag of all trades from Pittsburgh, PA, working primarily in video, dance, and performance art. When they're not "touring" (finding excuses to visit a-camp family) they can be found running with the Steel City Kitty variety show and the queens of the prestigious Blue Moon, and is frequently spotted clumsily canoeing near the 40th street bridge.

Grace lives in Portland, Oregon and drinks a lot of coffee as a result. She's the Senior Managing Editor of My Kid Is Gay, a site that provides advice and support to parents of LGBTQIA young people, which is pretty neat! Talk to her about podcasts, your life goals, or just let her show you pictures of cute babies. She went to summer camp for 3 days as a kid and cried the whole time, but she promises this time will be different.

Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior editor who lives in New York City with her partner, Stacy, and their zoo of rescued pets. She is a member of the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, the Television Critics Association, and Hufflepuff house. 

Isabel is a Mexico City native and current Brooklyn dweller. She's a documentary filmmaker by day and expert quesadilla architect by night. She runs a small production company with her brother and has spent the last three years working on her first feature film. She's a mediocre bowler.

Isabella Rotman is a cartoonist and illustrator from Maine living and drawing in Chicago. Her art is usually about the ocean, mermaids, crushing loneliness, people in the woods, or sex. She is author of the sexual health comic You're so Sexy When You Aren't Transmitting STIs, Not On My Watch; The Bystanders' Handbook for the Prevention of Sexual Violence, and Artist in Residence at Scarleteen.com.

Jennifer is currently in a doctorate program in clinical psychology and wants to listen to you talk about your feelings.  Her friends frequently tell her that she reminds them of a puppy and frankly she’s okay with that.  She can relate to anyone who loves german shepherds, dances weird, or eats at all food trucks indiscriminately. Jennifer is also a supervisor at the Trevor Project and loves mental health crisis services. Her clinical interests include researching how diversity can influence the health of an organization and she wants to be able to use that knowledge to make the world a more inclusive, safer place.

Katie is a sewing and craft educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She loves how sewing helps us present the way we want and is currently developing a gender non-specific sewing pattern line. She also has some hobbies such as eating avocados, dancing on roller skates, being enthusiastic about pressure cooking, and talking about feelings.

Kaylah is a snarky southern belle and selfie queen, with a closet full of crop tops, and an eternal love of dance. If you miss one of her amazing dance classes, you can find this melanated goddess busting it wide open on the Klub Deer dance floor.
She'll wait for you there ;)

Kip Reinsmith is A-Camp's resident Barber, style icon, and elf mascot. When he's not busy making your hair look cute, he works as a podcast and video producer, most recently producing a series on the unknown history of comedy for Stitcher Radio. A Pennsylvania Dutch boy at heart, he's now living among the trees and squirrels of the Pacific Northwest. As a Taurus, Kip can also be found near wildflowers, growing veggies, and healing others through Reiki. Loves to talk about gender. Winner of the Softest Hair Award.

Director of the Edible Schoolyard Project in Berkeley, a national program that promotes school gardening and cooking as part of the academic experience. 16 years working in food education, policy, and school food reform. Thinks mostly about food and how it is connected to everything. Obsessed with studying how people learn. Raises two kids, makes a lot of pancakes. Loves to dance. Best brunch in town.

Natalie Miller is a queer, trans, falconer who loves puns, playing hockey, and her German Shorthair Pointer, Gus! Natalie runs her own financial planning business out of Madison, WI, is one of the only people who gets excited when it snows, and loves talking over a warm cup of tea! She volunteers her time serving several boards and committees of LGBTQ public health and engagement organizations. When no volunteering, Natalie is usually on her motorcycle, hiking, kayaking, cross-country skiing, fly fishing, or watching Netflix. She is a complete bird nerd and founder of Klub Chickadee! Seriously, she knows A LOT about birds! Her newest passions include building an orchid collection, learning how to swing dance with her roommate, and mentoring friends who want to learn how to hunt and gather their own food. Natalie has been dreaming of joining the A-Camp staff since her first camp in October of 2013, and can't wait to welcome you all to Ojai!

Nikki has over 5 years experience working events. You'll probably see her running around camp making sure supplies are where they are supposed to be. You might see her in a flash here and there, papers flying about on her clipboard and popping up when someone asks if "Anyone has a sharpie"

Laneia has been described as "always on the computer" and "pretty approachable for an only child, I guess." This is her tenth A-Camp (!!!) and she's very enthusiastic for how mommi it'll be. Camp specialities include telling parenting tales, helping you feel chill about coming out after 25, collaging as praxis, and talking for hours about menstruation and childbirth and how men have systemically worked to convince us that we don't know what's best for our own bodies! She's obviously a lot of fun at parties. Laneia has two entire teenage kids, one glorious wife, and when she's not at A-Camp (and sometimes even when she is) she's being the executive editor of Autostraddle, where she's worked for like 70 years at least. Come say hi!

Immigration lawyer for a bunch of badass kids by day, DIY maven and novice capoeirista by night. Really into plants. Thinks menstruation is always a good conversation topic. Could not be more excited about doing crafts with y’all.

Mal Blum is a musician who writes songs and sometimes other things that aren't songs. They play in a band with their friends and tour around the country. Their last album (out now on Don Giovanni Records) was mostly just first-person narratives about depression set to punk music. They're also a helpful non-binary transgender human who is a friend to Autostraddle. See ya at camp.

Megan is your veteran Program Support Coordinator. She’s a Californian who’s eaten more cookies than hot meals, and loves bodyboarding and drumming. Two dogs, one cat, two kids, and one smoking hot wife.

Mika is a venezuelan graphic designer, art director, artist, and recognized funny friend. He has previously worked as art director at Backroom Caracas, design fellow at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), designer at 2x4 (NYC) and Rumors (PDX). He currently lives and works in Minneapolis. If you have specific thoughts on soccer, reggaeton, or pets he would really like to know them.

Molly Priddy is a writer and editor living in Northwest Montana. She likes mountains, manatees, Diet Coke, and campfires.