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Directors

Martha Laugen, MPH, is Program Director of Wellspring Family Camp. Martha joined Wellspring Camps as Activities Director at Wellspring New York in 2007. She has worked in activity promotion and obesity treatment since 1999, coordinating clinical research in obesity medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the most renowned hospitals in the world, and managing membership at one of the nation's largest public access rowing clubs. As an avid rower and coach herself, Martha holds a medal from the 2001 Head of the Charles Regatta. She earned her Bachelor's degree in public policy from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and her Masters in Public Health from Boston University.

Judith Wood, MA is Executive Director, Wellspring Camps – West and oversees Wellspring California. Prior to this, Jude served as Field Supervisor and then Program Director at Wellspring California. For the previous four years Judith worked as a Policy Officer for the Central Council of Physical Recreation in London, England. Specializing in health and young people, Judith worked directly with the UK and EU governments to promote physical activity as a tool for combating obesity. Judith sat on a number of advisory groups, was an elected member of the European Non-Governmental Sports Organization’s Youth Committee, and was involved in the London 2012 Olympic Volunteering Strategy. Judith is a graduate of Durham University and Warwick University Business School, where her time was divided between studying and playing sport. She competed in national competitions in both fencing and rowing, and is also a keen sailor and equestrian. Judith has hiked all over the world and spent three months on an expedition to Patagonia in the fall of 2007.

Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, Ph.D., is Clinical Director and Chief Program Officer of Healthy Living Academies. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in Illinois and California, was Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Northwestern University Medical School, where he is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Kirschenbaum is a Fellow and Diplomate in Clinical Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association and former president of its Division of Exercise and Sport Psychology. He has served as a consultant to the United States Olympic Committee, the National Basketball Association, the Ladies Professional Golf Association, the Chicago Bears, numerous professional journals, and several major corporations. Dr. Kirschenbaum has provided invited addresses at many professional conferences world-wide, received numerous grants for research, and published 9 books and 125 journal articles on weight loss, sport psychology, and related topics. His books include:Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity (1987); Weight Loss Through Persistence (1994); The 9 Truths About Weight Loss (2000); and, The Healthy Obsession Program: Smart Weight Loss Instead of Low-Carb Lunacy (2006). In 2000, the American Council on Exercise and its Board of Directors unanimously endorsed The 9 Truths About Weight Loss as “the best book ever written for the public on how to lose weight and keep it off.”