Camp Casco

Erin Fletcher Stern

CEO and Co-Founder, Camp Casco

Erin Fletcher Stern is the CEO and president of Camp Casco, a local nonprofit organization that provides free camps and community-building programs for childhood cancer patients, survivors, and siblings. Originally from San Diego, California, Erin became involved in the pediatric cancer community as a volunteer at a long-running camp in the area, while pursuing her undergraduate degree in microbiology at San Diego State. In 2013, she moved to Boston to study cancer biology at Harvard University's Biological and Biomedical Sciences program as a Ford Predoctoral Fellow.

It was there that she met Dr. Michael Goldberg, then an Assistant Professor at Dana-Farber. They decided to team up and start Camp Casco, a free camp designed just for kids surviving cancer, based right here in Massachusetts. The first camp session in 2015 was so successful that Erin ultimately left her lab work to run the organization full-time. Since then, Camp Casco has continued to grow year after year, with three separate camp sessions now offered each summer, as well as gatherings for families throughout the year.