Dante Broadbent

I’m Andrew Broadbent, but everyone, including my wife and family, calls me Dante. I switched to that name in high school because I liked it better, no other reason than that 🙂

This will be my 7th season as a leader in summer camps (3rd at Augusta); sadly, I only spent about three total weeks as a camper during my entire life :(. I mostly spent my younger days playing outside with other kids and reading books. I have a Bachelors in Outdoor Recreation Management and I’m a licensed vocational nurse and Wilderness EMT and I just completed a masters in recreation administration and I’m working on am MBA.

I got into studying recreation because of my time at Augusta in 2012. I had just gotten back from a deployment as a nurse in Afghanistan and I loved Augusta so much I wanted to make summer camp my life’s work. 5 years later I’m back at camp with two degrees and living my dream, so it’s worked out pretty well! I had a great time in my undergraduate program and I currently work as a researcher and as a consultant for summer camps. I’m hoping to open a website that will make risk management simpler for companies everywhere.

At college in Utah I would occasionally dress up and attempt to teach classes unannounced. A student instagrammed this picture one time.

I love to take walks in the woods, go on bike tours, and bike commute in general. I am a big sports guy, but only eSports: I love to watch professional Starcraft 2 games, ask me about it sometime! If not doing any of the above, I’m usually playing with my daughter, Briar, and my wife, Karisa, doing silly things and cooking up some adventurous dish we’ve never made before.

I was pretty silly even in Afghanistan, I even interviewed for Augusta while I was there.

I am currently living on site at Camp Augusta. I just moved from the east coast where I was attending and working at the University of New Hampshire. I was a senator on the Graduate Student Senate and involved with many aspects of improving the campus recreation for graduate and faculty members of the community. I’m also a Sunday School teacher at my church and a leader in the local boy scout troop.

I am so excited to work as camp again to bring back all the lessons I’ve learned since I was here last time! I’m currently the Master of Programs and Risk, or the D.A.N.T.E (delegate anything, nothing too extreme) as they say. I get to help out the MFGs, the Kitchen, Wilderness program, our risk management program, and all the clinics at camp to make sure they are getting better all the time. It’s a great job!

My wife, Karisa, and I love to go biking on time off, nature heals the spirit!

My deepest wish for each camper that comes to Augusta is that they learn to lose themselves in the magic of our community. I remember feeling so loved that all my self consciousness melted away and I was able to be present and have so much fun. I hope I can show campers what someone looks like who struggles to have fun and let it all go, and still is able to let it all go to dance a zany fun time jig while being sprayed with a water gun. Camp is what helps me come out of my shell and be wholehearted, I hope to show people how that can happen for them too.

Hiking the Lost Coast & found a stranded cihton!

I’m a dedicated risk manager, and I love the profession of recreation. my experience with this can be summed up by one sentence uttered after I had given a presentation on my greatest passions in risk management “it’s pretty dry stuff.” So I’m excited by things some people find uninteresting and I’m uninterested in things others find fascinating. I am also nearly blind in one eye, I whittle for fun, and I love board and card games so much I’m in a club to play/discuss new ones every week. My experiences in the military taught me a great deal about how some people choose to see the world, and I have chosen to view it another way that we at Augusta strive to embody.

I hope to see you soon!

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