WA 2025 Staff
Allie Cliffe
Class leader: “Sketch 101: From Blank Page to Big Laughs”
Allie’s education and work background is in astrophysics and biomedical science writing, her extracurricular passion lies in writing and performing outside her comfort zone – the comedic arts. A self-proclaimed creative trapped in a scientist’s body, Allie is in a local sketch comedy group up in Portland, Maine, and has graced the stages of the Portland Fringe Festival (2024), the Portland Maine Comedy Festival (2024), and recently tickled funny bones at a Halloween-adjacent show at The Hill Arts.
Allie has been coming to Winter Adventure for more than a decade, since back when it was called Winter Workshop. She’s been on the board and has co-led Evening Sing and Evening Program. She is most proud of helping to safely pull off the first official un-official post-Covid Winter Adventure (2021).
Beverly Pincus, Psy.D.
Children’s Program Assistant
Beverly Pincus is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Psychologist with expertise in trauma treatment and Cross-Cultural Psychology, an award winning author of personal essay and poetry, and a teacher of Creative Writing. She has taught her playshop “The Write Stuff” at ECRS events over the last five years. This year, she is excited to be assisting in the Children’s Program. Beverly’s Bachelors degree is in Human Development and Family Studies and after completing her doctorate she worked for many years as a Child Psychologist, at NY Presbyterian Children’s Hospital and later as Director of Psychology Training at NY Foundling. She is a former camp counselor who remembers all the silly songs more than forty years later!
A proud Colombian-American “Jewtina,” Beverly loves to write, read, dance, travel, do yoga, go to live theater, take long walks in nature, enjoy good food (which she likes to cook) with good friends, and cuddle with her furry, funny cat Cole. She lives in New York City with her wonderfully wise elder sage of a mother, and the aforementioned cat.
Bonnie Ostrovsky
Class leader: “Relax with Board & Word Games”
ECRS member for 30 years, Bonnie has served on the Board and is currently the co-chairperson of the Program and Staffing committee. She enjoys the opportunity to play games, dance, sing, and play music together. She leads a monthly ukulele “jam” (play and singalong) in eastern PA and has been known to lead a ukulele band for New Year’s Eve at Winter Adventure.
Camden Elliott-Williams
Children’s Program Assistant
is an algorithmic data scientist who’s passionate about discovering, refining, and integrating new solutions and perspectives through creativity, empathy, and tenacious deduction. He has acquired playful exploration techniques from decades of practice with the likes of a five-time International Jugglers Championships gold medalist, a three-time American Ninja Warrior contestant, a Hugo Award winner, and even venerated ECRS teachers from the Workshop era.
Gabriella Frisone
Business Manager
has been involved with ECRS since she started coming with her family as a teenager, and she’s been hooked ever since. Gabby recently became involved in the planning of events and served on the Board. Outside of ECRS, Gabby works as an administrator in the Statistics Department at a university.
Heather Klemanski
Class leader: “Breathe and Be” and “Games!”, and Snacks Coordinator
Klemanski is a well-being expert in stress management, mindfulness, and self-compassion. She empowers individuals and groups through transformations that build resilience, self-worth, and compassion. With qualifications in Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), Safe Space Facilitation, and Somatic Practices, Heather supports individuals navigating overwhelm, burnout, and emotional disconnection through a trauma-sensitive approach, gently guiding them back to balance and well-being.
With a love for creativity and play, whether it’s making earrings, collaging, or weaving beauty into the everyday, Heather brings warmth, presence, and meaning into all she does.
To learn more: Mindful Self Compassion | Heather Klemanski
Hugh Abrams-Helde
Programs for All Co-Coordinator
has been attending ECRS since attending a weekend in 1994 at the tender age of 15 months. He has served in several supporting roles since 2014 (Assistant Registrar, IT support, and most recently on the Programming and Staffing committee) and is excited to be taking on a program leadership role for the first time as Evening Program Co-coordinator.
Isaac Lebwohl-Steiner
Isaac Lebwohl-Steiner – Class leader: “Small Scenes” and “Improv Games”
has been coming to ECRS his entire life and currently serves as Board Chair. He leads improv, cooperative and theater games, Small Scenes, and other ways to play at ECRS events. He has served on various committees over the years.
He invites you to join him at ECRS for the same reason he leads here: connecting with a caring community and playing just because we can.
Josh and Rachael Silverbauer
Class leaders: “Hat Game” and “Rock Opera Build”
By day, Rachael is a creative director and Josh is a director of analytics—but they’ve woven creativity into every corner of their lives. Josh has written two full-length rock operas, while Rachael is in the process of publishing her own children’s books. Together, they’ve collaborated on numerous projects, including an annual musical retelling of the Purim story. Improvisation and creative play are their love language, and they’ve been playing the Hat Game through every chapter of their journey together. Now as parents, they’re bringing that same spirit of music, play, and imagination to their kids. They’re thrilled to lead classes at ECRS this year—and can’t wait to stretch your creative limits right alongside them.
Judi Powers
Class leader: “Chair Yoga” and “Joy of Movement: Moving to Heal”
Judi has been a member of the ECRS family for over 10 years. She has her blue belt in NIA and is a certified instructor for Moving to Heal. She loves teaching joy of movement-moving your body’s way. Dancing is an experience that can be so uplifting and healing on many levels-in a group it’s just infectious!
She lives in the Adirondack Mountains where she enjoys her many outdoor passions from skiing to gardening. She is a licensed Adirondack guide in hiking, camping and whitewater. She is part of the local theater group of dancing witches. Hope you come join me and share some smiles!
Karen Wisnia
Staff Coordinator
Karen has been attending ECRS events since she first came as a sophomore in college (Spring 1979). She loved it so much she’s hardly missed an event since. Karen was Treasurer on the ECRS Board of Directors in the 1980s and Board Co-Chair in the 1990s. She was Chair of the Weekend Planning Committee starting in 1986 until it morphed into the Programming and Staffing Committee in 2020, and continued to Co-Chair until 2022. Karen’s staff roles at Winter Adventure include Staff Coordinator, Assistant Business Manager, and Class Co-Leader. At weekend events, Karen has held roles such as Co-Coordinator, Class Leader, Registrar, Assistant Registrar, and various scholarship positions. Karen has most recently been Co-Coordinator at several one-day ECRS events in Philadelphia.
Kay Gering
Class leader: “Crafts: Deck the Halls”
Kay first attended ECRS with her family when she was 16. In her 20s she was offered a position as Children’s Program Leader where she loved trying to engage the kids with a wide variety of activities. But creating art has always been her passion. So it was inevitable that she find her way to leading Craft classes. Now she is ever on the hunt for new art and craft projects to bring to the welcoming and creative ECRS community.
Kim Neubauer
Class leader: “Leadership Playground”
Kim is an award-winning Learning and Development Consultant with expertise in leadership development and career transition. She has supported US Department of State diplomats, USAID development professionals, graduate business students, and Fortune 500 company employees with coaching, workshop facilitation, resume writing and interview preparation.
Kim is a folk dancer, dance musician and a popular guest leader for two Israeli dancing groups.
As a child, Kim enjoyed collecting frogs/tadpoles while absorbing ECRS values, theory and practices well enough to be invited onto the staff by age 18. She has since served on the Board as well as designed and facilitated the first ECRS leadership retreat. She has coordinated Evening Sings, and led singing, games and international folk dances. She has mentored multiple ECRS leaders and has offered a variety of leadership classes.
Lane Neubauer
Class leader: “Games!”
has been attending ECRS since she was 11 (over 55 years!). She has been on staff many times teaching a variety of classes including Informal Dramatics, Games, Square Dancing, Group Dynamics and Leadership. She has been Staff Coordinator as well Evening Program Coordinator multiple times. Lane served on the ECRS Board and was Chair for two years of her three year term. Professionally, Lane was Associate Dean of Students for 17 years at La Salle University. She initiated and facilitated a Peer Education program and grew this to be over 60 students. Prior to La Salle, she was Director of ‘Wellness Services’ at Arcadia University for 10 years and was an Adjunct Faculty member teaching Group Dynamics to Masters level teachers; in this course, she incorporated ECRS philosophy in teaching teachers how to build a positive, inclusive climate with their students. Throughout her professional career as well as after she retired, Lane has been called upon by a variety of different populations to facilitate workshops focusing on team building, conflict resolution and leadership.
Lisa Natale
Children’s Program Coordinator
Lisa loves to grow, create, and play. She’s been fortunate to pursue these passions under the tutelage of experts—children. A grateful mom and teacher, she has spent the last eight years crafting meaningful learning opportunities for people at various points in their educational journeys, from preschool to college. In every classroom and every community she has experienced, she strives to inspire openness, curiosity, and collaboration.
Patricia Williams
Class leader: “International Folk Dance”
Williams loves to bring people together through singing, dancing, informal dramatics and cooperative games. Her expertise in human interaction and group dynamics has been honed over many years as a group facilitator and coach. Even reluctant first-timers find her instructions to be simple and clear, her enthusiasm infectious.
Reed Dewey
Class leader: “Explore Your Encore”
is a transition coach with What’s Next Coaching. He supports clients who want to explore and plan for the life they want — and dream of having — especially in later life. Reed holds numerous coaching certifications and received his coach training from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (accredited through the International Coach Federation). Prior to his encore career, Reed was a senior leader at numerous local and national nonprofits. He ran the Montgomery County Volunteer Center where he supported thousands of volunteers and hundreds of nonprofit agencies. Visit Reed Dewey’s website at www.whats-next.org.
Rob Eames
Class leader: “Empathy Games”
Eames, M.A., is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication and a Relationship Coach who specializes in helping people build relationships rooted in authenticity & compassion. As founder of Couples Focus and Relational Academy, Rob offers coaching and workshops that blend practical skillbuilding with experiential discovery. His approach centers on cultivating relational skills—both with ourselves and others—as the foundation for interdependence, resilience, and meaningful connection.
Sharon Underberg
Class leader: “Sacred Circle Dances”, and Programs for All Co-Coordinator
Underberg believes in the power of play and its importance for adults as well as children; her membership in ECRS since the age of 16 is a large foundation of this belief. As a pediatric radiologist, she combines state-of-the-art high-tech imaging with being able to sing all the verses of “The Wheels on the Bus,” motions included. Her passions include live-action role-play, singing, and acting. As well as being a Programming and Staffing committee member, Sharon teaches folk dance workshops (ask her about teaching dance in Sweden and Finland) and works as a coordinator at ECRS events.
Susannah Duncan
Children’s Program Assistant
is an after-school instructor at an elementary school, where she organizes themed program days for kids. She loves connecting with people of all ages through creativity and play, and has been a creative writing club leader, substitute teacher, and director of a theater workshop in which she worked with second- and third-graders to develop, write, and perform their very own plays. In her free time, she enjoys writing fantasy and sci-fi, exploring new artistic mediums, exclaiming over cool bugs in the woods, and traveling.
Tom Helde
Tech/AV Support
is the fourth Winter Adventure for which Tom will provide sound and other A/V support. Outside ECRS, Tom volunteers for his church as a video producer on live-streamed services and is their lighting designer/operator for special events. Before raising his kids, Tom volunteered as a sound operator for dances, concerts, and festivals in the DC area folk music community, and worked on lighting in college and community theater.
Zsuzsi Nagy
Assistant Business Manager
Zsuzsi has been coming to ECRS since childhood with her family. Following a hiatus during college in Hungary, she returned to ECRS now with her son Daniel – wanting him to also experience the shared joy, freedom, love and community. She has served on the Board and has filled various staff roles at ECRS events. Zsuzsi works as a mental health clinician at a university, in an emergency room and teaches at a Hungarian Saturday school. Biking, hiking, and discovering new things are her joys.