We believe that just like a high-quality education, an amazing summer camp experience should be available to all children. One of the most important components of making this dream a reality is a fun, talented, dedicated, and mission-driven team. Camp Beyond is staffed by our school partner teachers and alumni as well as dedicated individuals looking to ensure campers are safe and have the time of their lives.

 
 

81% of team members feel connected to the mission of Camp Beyond.

 

Senior Team Profiles

 

Monia Johnson, Director of Camp Beyond

As Camp Director for Camp Beyond, Monia brings operational excellence and systems-building to joyful camp programming. Through her work at Change Summer, Monia aspires to build robust social-emotional learning opportunities where campers can discover their strengths, test their limits and learn new skills while having fun.

Monia developed her affinity for the outdoors during family camping trips where she fell in love with the adventure of open-water swimming and climbing trees, the connection fostered over community meals and campfire songs, and the overwhelming peace of being in nature. She spent three consecutive summers at Camp Mendocino in Yountville, CA, where she became an archery master and later served as a Junior Camp Counselor.

Prior to joining Change Summer, Monia earned a Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Georgia State University, serving as a core community Clinician for teens. She then took a risk and ventured abroad to South Korea to teach English to children ages 7-13. Following her experience abroad, Monia transitioned to the private sector, bringing her educational and leadership prowess to JP Morgan Chase’s Learning and Organizational Development team. In 2018, Monia decided to return to her first passion: serving, mentoring, and inspiring the next generation of leaders. She then joined Uncommon Schools as the Director of Operations at Brownsville Collegiate Charter School, where she combined her business acumen with love of program development.

Monia previously served as Change Summer’s Senior Advisor. She is passionate about kickball and strives to deepen her impact by stretching learning experiences beyond classroom walls and into the great outdoors. She finds deep joy and purpose in sharing camp experience with campers and counselors who look like her.

When Monia isn’t raining jumpers on campers and counselors in 3-on-3 basketball, she can be found fishing on her family boat or snuggling with her beloved 14-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, Roxy. Monia is a proud graduate of Spelman College and currently resides in Houston, TX.