Alum Network

Welcome to the Alum Network!

Encampers from all over the United States – and beyond – are making connections and sharing their experiences. If you are an alum, please use this space to catch up with alum news, connect with other alums, and get more involved in EFC activities.

Take the Alum Survey

Are you reconnecting with the Encampment? Complete the alum survey. (If you do not have a gmail address, or if you don’t get a reply within 10 days, email admin@encampmentforcitizenship.org.) To just update your contact information fill out our contact form.

Each One Finds One

Help the EFC get in contact with more alums! Send us contact info for one or more of your fellow alums.

The 2026 InterGen Is Meeting the Moment

Near the conclusion of the 2026 Encampment, we will come together to share current and past reflections, inspirations, and strategies. Join us July 17–19 in-person in Thousand Oaks, CA. You can also participate virtually for two sessions.

SNAPSHOTS

2020 Online Encampment
2025 Intergen.
2020 Online Encampment
2019 Intergen.

Tell us your story

Would you like to be interviewed about your Encampment story? Use our contact form to send all the details on to us »

2020 Online Encampment
2014 Chicago.

Send us news!

Do you have Encampment alum news to share? Use our contact form to send all the details to us »

Alum News

Graduating? Got into a program you are excited about? Working for a social justice project you want to share? Write to us and we’ll share your news either as a Story or short Alum Update.

Remembering our EFC Community Members

If you know of an alum or community member who has died, please share that information with us and we will post it here.

1940s
  • Isaac Ben Ezra, 1946 NY
1950s
  • Ed Peeples, 1957 NY
  • Bob Young, 1953 NY, Staff 1965 CA
Staff
  • Bill Shannon, Executive Director, 1952–58

The whole EFC experience has been empowering, …

and has helped me see that I have the ability to make a difference. It’s also helped me understand my ability to connect with people from totally different backgrounds to mine.

Maggie

2018 Encamper, Washington, DC

We are strengthening democracy by creating community.