Our Camp Owner, Meghan Gardner (whose own daughters attend Wizards & Warriors camps), is trained by the American Camping Association as a Camp Director, and has more than 12 years of experience in running youth programs and 6 years running camps. Meghan has also taught (literally) thousands of kids and teens important Assault and Abduction Prevention skills through Guard Up, Inc., and has coached Junior Olympic Volleyball for the Gators Volleyball Club out of Bedford, MA.  Meghan is the founder of Guard Up! Family Swordsmanship out of Burlington, MA.

Our Day Camp Director and Director of our After School Program, Adam Rodgers, is a seven-year veteran of camp and after school programs. He comes to Guard Up from the YMCA of Greater Boston, where he ran after school programs and worked in all facets of their camp programs. He holds a myriad of certifications, including EEC Qualified Site Director and American Camping Association Camp Director. Adam has a degree in Archaeology and is an avid history buff. He loves working with kids because every day holds the possibility to see them grow.

Our Facility Director, Morgan Kuberry, has been working in the education field since 1999 and graduated with a dual degree in History and Theater in 2004. During that time he has worked for camps, museums, daycare, after-school programs, and other educational pursuits. Morgan has previous professional experience working with children with Aspergers syndrome, and a close family member with severe Autism. As a hobby, Morgan is involved with world class Living History groups in the U.S., and continues to study childcare development and historical swordsmanship in conjunction with his career at Guard Up.

Plot Director and part Owner, Jeff Wegman (also a parent of three boys), is certified as a Camp Director by the American Camping Association, and has been writing and running plots and storylines for groups for 15+ years. Jeff has been an instructor and educator through his local church for 6th through 9th graders for more than 15 years. He has also served as a personal mentor, sharing and exploring key virtues and ethics for youth. Outside of camp, Jeff is a corporate buyer in South Hadley, MA.

Christopher Wiley, also certified as an ACA Camp Director, and holds a position as our Counselor Director, is originally from Alabama, and has made Boston his home for the past three years. He has spent much of his life working around younger kids; as a big brother, a daycare volunteer, an assistant scout leader, and teaching children’s theater classes/camps. He is a double major in English and Theater, and an active performer. On days not spent at Guard Up, Chris works closely with the Burlington-based theater company “Atlantis Playmakers”, where he performs in stage plays and stage combat presentations, and teaches both to kids.

Our Prop, Make Up & Costume Director is Corey Philips, who has been fascinated with world mythology for as long as he can recall. As a teenager, he would lead friends and neighborhood children on adventures through the woods and yards of his neighborhood, replacing cops and robbers with elves and orcs, knights and monsters. While in High School, he got involved in his school’s drama club. He then attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied stage combat and melee combat interpretation. While at the university, he also learned theatrical and special effects makeup techniques. His dual interests in teaching and makeup led him, at one point, to working in a daycare center by day and a haunted house by night.

Guard Up also has a full time Health Supervisor on staff during the camp season; our camp is fully licensed. All counselors are trained in CPR, First Aid, and Special Needs.