Katie Blankenship serves as the Satellite Music Director at YEAH! and oversees all of our out of town Rock Camps and Rock Block Programs. She holds a Master of Arts from New York University in Non-Profit Administration and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Cultural Anthropology. She started working with YEAH as a volunteer at the Southern Girls Rock & Roll Camp four years ago, and fell so in love with the program that she moved home from New York City to help run Music Programs all year long.
Rachel Rogers has been involved with Southern Girls Rock and Roll Camp in one way or another since the program was two years old, and is beyond thrilled to be taking on the roll of director for both SGRRC and Rock Block Summer Camp. She holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from MTSU where her education focused on theatre and women’s studies. She has been involved in arts education since 2004 when she began working in children’s theatre as a director and acting instructor at Murfreesboro’s Center for the Arts. She also has worked as camp counselor in several different settings and has taught knitting to both children and adults. She has been involved in too many theatre productions to count. Her passion for music has been lifelong, and she considers the opportunity to help create the YEAH camp experience for as many kids as possible an incredible gift.
First a camper at Southern Girls Rock n’ Roll Camp, I fell in love with YEAH’s ideals and goals in the summer of 2008. Less than a year later, I organized Zeitgeist, a music festival of high school bands at the University School of Nashville. I quickly began to see the continuity of ideas and goals behind both Zeitgeist and YEAH: both the event and the organization strived to provide young people opportunities and tools for empowering artistic expression. So after
volunteering at all three rock camps run under YEAH during the summer of 2010, I joined the staff as Assistant Director of SGRRC and TNTRC. Also a musician, I’ve played in a folk duo called Ave Marling, an all-girl grunge trio called MOM, playing guitar, banjo, ukulele, accordion, and stompboxin’ up a storm. I continue to write/perform/tour as a solo gal now under my own name, as well as in
a brand new orchestralesque folk band called Honey Locust.
Katie Blankenship
Rachel Rogers
Lizzie Conner
