Christopher Colahan
Managing Director
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Chris arrived at Peconic Dunes Camp in 2007, enjoying the fresh air of the North Fork after 10 years of progressive education in rural Japan, The Bahamas, NYC/Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. Before he was a camp director, Chris refined his multitasking skills in The Bahamas, where he served as Ecomuseum Advisor to the South Eleuthera Mission (associated with his masters thesis on Ecomuseums), and at the Island School where he taught about Pre-Colonial through post-Colonial history and literature, was co-medical director and collaborated with Eleutherans to host American students in their homes. Chris' personal love of camping began much earlier, as a young camper at Willow Grove Day Camp in Willow Grove, PA, Camp Canadensis in the Poconos, and Camp Kawanhee for Boys in Weld, ME, where for a combined 11 years he developed as a camper, cabin counselor, canoe and archery instructor. Chris' education has been formal and informal. He holds an M.A. degree in International Educational Development: Family & Community Education (the ethnographic study of learning that takes place outside of schools) from Teachers College, Columbia University, a B.S. degree in Secondary Education: 7-12 Social Studies from Villanova University, and an A.S. degree in Liberal Studies from Montgomery County Community College. In college he started two outdoor adventure clubs, MCCC Adventure Group and Villanova Adventure Group. He has been an EMT since 2000, a certified PADI Divemaster since 2003, and a Wilderness EMT since 2005. Chris splits his free time between surfing and exploring archives.
