Our People
Who We Are
No Ordinary Camps is led by a dedicated board of directors and staff team with deep experience in pediatric burn care, camp programming, nonprofit operations, and community engagement. Together with our medical partners, camp professionals, firefighters, and volunteers, we create meaningful programs for burn survivors and their families.
Trudy Boulter, OTR/L, CHT, BT-C, is the Executive Director of No Ordinary Camps and Director of the Burn Camps Program. Trudy is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist specializing in burn care, upper extremity trauma and congenital anomalies for over 20 years. She has worked in the burn camps program since 1991 under the tutelage of Marion Doctor, a pioneer in the establishment of Burn Camps Nationwide. Trudy is an active member of the American Burn Association, International Association of Burn Camps and the American Camping Association. She is a certified burn therapist on the burn team at Children’s Hospital Colorado and is dedicated to the development of standards and programs that enhance the growth and development of young people and their families throughout their development into adulthood.
Trudy has been Camp Director since 2011 and actively involved in the Burn Camps Program since 1990 when she first began seeing a few burn patients on her caseload as an Occupational Therapist. Trudy held the position of Chair of the International Association of Burn Camps (IABC) for 10 years, recently completing her commitment.
Board of Directors
Alec Rhodes
Board President
John Bauknight
Board Vice President
Ben Dennis
Board Treasurer
Patrick Dennis
Board Secretary
Patrick Hynes
Board Member
Staff Team
Trudy Boulter
Executive Director | Occupational Therapist
Kerry Mikolaj
Chief Operations Officer | Physical Therapist
Caitlin McGonagle
Director of Engagement & Events | Child Life Specialist
Medical Team
During camp, our programs are supported by a multidisciplinary medical team that can address campers’ needs throughout injury, recovery, and aftercare. The team includes occupational and physical therapists, nurses, social workers, psychologists, child life specialists, and art therapists. Together, they support our campers, families, and staff, with every effort made to address each camper’s individual medical and therapy needs.
Campers with greater medical or therapy needs may be seen daily for range-of-motion exercises, scar massage, pressure garment needs, or splinting support.
Referring Burn Centers
Our camp programs partner with burn centers across the U.S. and internationally. Medical professionals—often nurses or therapists—from these centers may participate as counselors during camp. This gives them the opportunity to see their campers in the camp environment and share the impact of camp with their teams and other families.
Learn more about the hospitals and burn centers that partner with our programs on our Hospital Partners page.
Firefighters
Firefighters have long been part of our camp community. The Denver Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation has been a longtime supporter and generous donor to our programs. Firefighters are often among the first responders at the scene of a burn injury, helping children reach safety and medical care without always knowing what happens afterward.
Serving as camp counselors gives firefighters the opportunity to see the growth and healing of young burn survivors. The experience can be meaningful and restorative for them as well.
Community Volunteers
Summer Camp is intentionally staffed with medical providers from our referring burn centers, who may accompany their campers and serve as counselors, as well as professional staff from Cheley Colorado Camps. Each year, two counselor positions may be available for burn survivors, along with one or two positions for community members who bring a special skill or talent to the program.
These positions are filled on a case-by-case basis by the Camp Director.