The Sierra Camp Community celebrates the diversity of identity, background, skills, experiences, and values that each of our community members (both Staphers and guests alike) bring! We are committed to create spaces for all of our community members to feel celebrated, loved, and cared for.

Sierra Camp Community Contract

We expect all who choose to be a part of the Sierra Camp community to stand for diversity, equity, and inclusion. We ask our community to contribute to Camp’s efforts in supporting its progress in this arena, by individually taking responsibility for one’s own behavior and development, as well as, in both action and rhetoric, cultivating and maintaining a healthy, safe environment in which all community members can thrive and are able to live without fear of racism, discrimination, harassment, and violence.

We ask members of our community to continue to self-educate, engage, speak up, make space, get curious, call in, take risks, acknowledge mistakes and keep learning, practice gratitude and humility, question the status quo, and work to elevate the voice and visions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

Land Acknowledgement

We recognize that Stanford Sierra Camp sits on the ancestral land of the Washoe Tribe. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Washoe people. Consistent with our values of community and inclusion, we have a responsibility to acknowledge, honor and make visible Camp’s relationship to Native peoples.

Stanford Alumni Association’s Racial Justice Resources

“During this time of heightened awareness of violence and discrimination against marginalized people, particularly Black Americans, it is even more important that we support all members of the Stanford community and equip ourselves with information and skills to create change. The Stanford Alumni Association’s mission is to reach, serve and engage all Stanford alumni, and we are committed to keeping you informed on the university’s response and scholarship pertaining to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. We hope that you will be inspired to participate in an activity, lecture, or program to help us to take action to strengthen our Stanford community.” (racialjustice.alumni.stanford.edu)

Stanford Sierra Camp’s 2020 Week of Action

In 2020, a group of former Staphers were called to create a Week of Action. The idea behind this week started with a few staphers coming together with hopes of harnessing the collective energy of this powerful community to engage with the Black Lives Matter movement. Our wish for this week is to grow alongside the Sierra Camp community that has so immensely impacted many of our lives. We hope to elevate the voices and work of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color leaders and hold space for our community to learn, grow, and join together to make a difference and take action against systemic racism through intentional reflection, self-education, fundraising awareness, and meaningful conversations guided by the work of these BIPOC leaders.

We hope engagement with these resources inspires larger and more prolonged action. We strive to carry these lessons beyond just this week, and work to become consciously and actively anti-racist within our communities, Camp and beyond.

Student Art Commission

Program Intro 

The spirit of this program is to foster the link between students and the greater alumni community, actively invest in student work, highlight the ideas and work representative of the recent Stanford student body, and to raise awareness and funds for organizations that support Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

Each year, Sierra Camp will partner with a student or recently graduated student artist to commission a piece. After purchasing the student artist work through the financial support of our Funding Client, the highest guest bidder from the previous year, we will display the commissioned piece and make it available to be bid on throughout the summer program, collecting bids each week. On the final day of summer, early September, the piece will go to the highest bidder.

Sierra Camp will reserve an amount of the purchasing payment to go towards commissioning next year's piece from a new student artist. For 2021, the minimum bid was set at $450 to cover the cost of next year's commission. Any amount over the minimum bid will be donated to an organization supporting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. 

We’re excited about this program’s potential to establish support for student artists in an ongoing nature, while honoring and advancing Sierra Camp’s collaboration with Stanford University.