Katie Hagan

Katie Hagan grew up in North Brunswick, New Jersey, and graduated in 2008 from Bates College where she was a member of the Outing Club, for which she led backpacking trips for incoming students. As a Biochemistry major, Katie was also actively involved with the Biology department as a teaching assistant and peer writing tutor. In 2010, Katie returned to lead for her 5th summer, but she was first introduced to Overland as student in high school when she went on the Appalachian Trail Challenge in 2002. In 2004, she completed a National Outdoors Leadership School backpacking course in Alaska, and in the summer of 2005, Katie traveled to Tanzania, where she volunteered at a health clinic and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Katie led New England Adventure in 2006, Yellowstone Teton Explorer in 2007, the American Challenge in 2008, the Alaska Leadership Course in 2009, and the Alpine Challenge in 2010. This fall, she began the Executive Master of Public Health program with a focus in Epidemiology at Columbia University. Katie writes: "One of my favorite things about leading for Overland is the summer family I get to come back to every year. Overland summers are such an incredible experience; from leader training to spending a month outside with a great group of teenagers and the connections that continue throughout the year with my students, other leaders and the awesome year-round office folks!"

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Overland Programs offers more than 40 different trips including New England summer camps and adventures for kids (4th graders, 5th graders and 6th graders), hiking trips for teens, teen bike trips in Europe and America, teen summer service programs, writing programs on the Williams college campus and field studies trips in the developing world. Overland has summer adventure trips and programs of all types, lengths, and locations. Our teen adventure travel trips and programs are for elementary school students, middle school students and high school students. We have wilderness adventures, bike adventures cross-country, and outdoor leadership programs spread across five continents. Overland is not simply a summer-long experience—it's a life experience with value and resonance that extends far beyond the boundaries of a single summer.

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Bright, charismatic and accomplished, our leaders ensure the safety and well-being of every Overland student. We recruit our leaders from America's finest colleges and universities, meeting with hundreds of campus leaders across the the country—an effort that generates over 450 applications for just 80 new leadership positions. No other organization of our kind invests the resources that we do to put together the finest summer leadership staff possible.

Programs and Adventures Since 1984

Overland, also known as Overland Summers, Overland Programs, Overland Travel, and even as Overland Adventures, is proud to have ACA accredited summer programs which are held to the highest safety standards. Overland is not a teen tour or a typical summer camp, our trips and programs are carefully crafted and designed to challenge our students, who are always in small groups of no more than 12 students with superlative leadership.