Our Team
Go Palestine takes pride in its experienced staff who are focused on a safe and fun-filled summer experience.
Staff
Go Palestine has 5 summer camp counselors on our staff, both men and women . They are mature with an average age of 24, yet fun loving leaders. It is important our staff protects the campers health and safety, which is non-negotiable. Equally important is for the counselors to open the doors of cultural understanding in a summer camp setting.
2019 Staff in Taybeh
Walid Musarsa
Director
Walid is a proud Go Palestine alum (2011), and holds an MA in Religion focused on Peace and Justice from Earlham College and a B.S in Business Administration from Guilford College. Walid is also an RFS grad, Class of 2012. Go Palestine has had a profound influence on Walid, and he is looking froward to share that very same transformative experience he had at Go Palestine with all our future campers.
Mays Kuhail
Assistant Director
Mays is a writer who works in the social entrepreneurship space in Ramallah. She graduated from Birzeit University with a major in Business Administration, Marketing, and HR Management. She studied and worked in Spain and the United States during her time in college. She was a counselor at Go Palestine in 2018, 2019, and a camper in 2012.
Advisors
Ted First
A designer and builder of solar and energy efficient homes, Quaker for 40 year serving in prison ministry, Habitat for Humanity and a supporter and participant in the Ramallah Friends Meeting and the Israeli- Palestinian village of Wahat al Salam/Neve Shalom
James “Biff” Houldin
Program advisor and staff instructor, has enjoyed being part of the development of Go Palestine for the past 7 years. As the owner and director for 35 years of summer camps and travel programs for teenagers, it is a privilege to lend my experience to make Go Palestine a meaningful, safe and well organized summer camp.
Rania Maayeh
Rania joined the RFS team as Head of School in July 2021. She is a long-standing RFS community member, having been a parent of three alums, a teacher and a former student. Rania brings with her broad experience in Palestinian education and management that spans three decades.