Designing Boyhood on Purpose
A documentary about teenage boys at my camp learning vulnerability at summer camp just premiered — and it's had me thinking about the question that guided my years running Camp Timberlake: what kind of experience of boyhood are we actually creating? The answer isn't hope. It's design.
Review of Boys of Summer: This is Timberlake
I spent five years as director at Camp Timberlake, finishing up after the summer of 2024. Boys of Summer was filmed the summer before that, in 2023, when NPR came to TL for the second half of the session. So when I sat down to watch it for the first time, I was watching a summer I lived, from the other side of my last one. A coda for the work. For the years. For everything we built together. I cried four times.