Julie B. Platt is a member of the Reshet Ramah Board and the Ramah California board. Her reflection originally appeared in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, “Beyond Philanthropy: Q & A with Julie B. Platt“.

Camp Ramah. [was my most formative Jewish experience] It changed my life. I remember no place feeling more at home as a Jew than surrounded by that environment. For me, it was like Disneyland, because I didn’t have any Jewish kids around me in Wichita, so to go and make Jewish friends all summer long was just indescribable. I counted the minutes [during the school year] till it was time to go back.