Our Team
Saph Fischerhall
Board Member
Saph (she/her/hers), attended Camp It Up! with her lesbian moms as a child and teen, and is thrilled to return to camp as a bisexual queer woman with her trans partner and two kids. She currently lives in a multi-generational house in Albany, California where she takes care of her kids and her parents-in-law. Since the age of 8, when she decided to always be out and proud about her family, she has been a queer activist. Growing up in queer community, she learned the importance of chosen family and of building strong, supportive queer community, and that has been a driving passion all her life. She loves raising her kids in the same beautiful East Bay Area that she and her partner grew up in. Her favorite activities include: Sliding down the concrete slide at Codornices Park, dancing Argentine Tango with fellow queers at Abrazo, drawing with her kids, raining dollars on drag kings, holding babies, collecting picture books about queer history and gender identity, baking cookies, rejecting false binaries, reading queer romance novels, and camping with her family.
Krys Morgenthaler
Board Treasurer
Krys (they/them) is a queer masc-of-center non-binary dad who lives in Berkeley with their wife and two trans daughters. They currently serve as Chief Development Officer for the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity and oversee resource development, brand management, and community engagement. Krys loves building, sports, hiking, birding, camping, and nerding out about tools and gear. Their family has been camping with Camp It Up! since 2022 and they are passionate about supporting the community.
Sophia Cruz-Perez
Board Member
Sophia (she/her) is an Native Xicana Femme Dyke, mama to a saucy Cancerian wildfire, wife to an adoring Cubana, and a true Sagittarius. Sophia lives in Gainesville, Florida (by way of Oakland!) and works as a Clinical Social Worker. Sophia’s work/organizing/interests always come back to addressing and hopefully transforming social issues/inequities such as domestic violence, birth work, Fat Liberation, environmental science, death movement, and BIPOC affinity spaces. She attended Camp It Up! for the first time in 2026, after a very long time manifesting it (and parenthood!). Sophia enjoys all things outdoors/nature, sweet water, swimming, crafting, skin care, and travel. She hopes to contribute to the board by promoting BIPOC/Red State attendance and figuring out how to otherwise best contribute to the magic that is already Camp It Up!
Joey Stevenson
Board President
Joey (she/her) is a white queer femme mama in Oakland, CA. She has been a hairdresser and salon owner since 2002. Joey has been a community organizer since the 90's, and spent almost two decades running programs in San Francisco for National Queers Arts Fest, El Rio, the Lexington Club, and changed the route of the SF Dyke March in 2015. She served on the Board of Directors for SF pride 2015-2017 and is currently involved in the Integrated Schools movement. She was a summer camp counselor from 1991-1997, and from 2002-2015 volunteered summers working in the kitchen of a queer music festival. There is little she enjoys more than summer camp in the woods with queers and kids.
Clark Graham
Board Member
Clark (e/em/eir, they/them) loves rainbows, works as a special education teacher, and cherishes time with eir chosen family. Clark enjoys reading, needle arts, gardening, cooking and other creative ventures. E has lived happily in Sacramento with eir family since 2016 (growing by a few members since then). Clark hopes to find more opportunities to connect with queer community, which e found chance to do at Camp in 2019. Clark is eager to support in the continuation and growth of Camp It Up!
Kiko Guerra
Board Member
KIKO (He/Him/They) is a ball of QUEER JOY and has a passion for creating a loving space where families get to freely express themselves and create those unforgettable core memories that will last a lifetime. Being “More than a Plumber” is his motto and strives to expand his contribution to this Mother Earth and those living in it. Having grown up going to summer camp most of his childhood, getting the opportunity to give back and be a part of making an impact in the hearts of our rainbow community is a dream come true. He joined the Camp It Up family in 2024 as a Camp Counselor, now returning as a lead on the 2026 Programming Committee. You will find him spending time with family and friends when not working hard in his family plumbing business. Finding the WONDER in everyday life and standing in LOVE for the world to see, is what gets him up in the morning with a smile on his face…
Sonya Dublin
Board Member
Sonya (she/her) is a queer single mom living in Berkeley, CA and raising a Latinx, bilingual, elementary schooler. Sonya has been involved in local CIU events since 2024 and a participant in other Bay Area LGBTQ+ family camps since 2022. Sonya is an avid camper, hiker, kayaker and crafter. She loves sharing these passions with youth and being in spaces where kids can get dirty and run wild. By day, Sonya works as an evaluator for public health programs and is excited to grow her relationship to CIU and bring data geek and grant writing skills to the Board. As part of a transracial, bilingual, adoptive family, Sonya is passionate about creating community where all families can feel welcomed and see themselves reflected.
Our Founder
Jill Rose co-founded Camp It Up! in 1990 and has dedicated her career to camp management and community empowerment, working in various camp roles since age thirteen and serving as a former Oakland public school music teacher, songwriter, and community organizer. As director of Camp It Up! until her retirement in December 2016, she focused on non-urban camps as sources for individual, familial, and communal healing, training teenagers to work with children and enabling families to experience camping together for the first time. A co-founder of the non-profit Camps In Common, which manages Feather River Camp for the City of Oakland, Jill has been a Northern California resident since 1967.