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Youth Summer Camps includes summer day camps, half-day camps, youth skate clinics, adult skateboarding workshops, and free youth skateboarding classes. Camp activities focus on skateboarding, with options that include Memorial Day youth skate camp and free youth skate classes connected to the Oakland Public Library. Adult participants have access to skateboarding workshops that are separate from the youth camps.
• Ages: 6–16 years old
• Schedule: Half-day youth summer camps and skate camps typically run 9:00 AM–12:00 PM or 9:00 AM–1:00 PM on specific weeks and dates; adult workshops run 9:00 AM–12:00 PM on select Saturdays
• Price: Half-day youth summer day camps cost $319; the Memorial Day youth skate camp costs $89; adult workshops cost $99 per session
Youth Summer Camps is part of Skate Like a Girl, a nonprofit organization formed in 2000 with over 25 years of impact. The organization states a mission to create an inclusive community by promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through skateboarding, and it operates chapters in Seattle, Portland, and the San Francisco Bay Area, serving thousands of individuals annually with a variety of programs and events. The program offers All Gender Weeks for skateboarders of all genders ages 6–13, and it states that camps are open to ages 6–16, all genders, and all skill levels.
The program notes that summer day camps use skateboarding as a tool for creativity, confidence, and community, and that camps incorporate learning to skateboard through discussion and practice of life lessons and themes such as Self Confidence, Humility, being Radical, Equity and Determination (SHRED). Programs also include Women &/or Trans Sessions and adult workshops that are described as exclusive spaces for skateboarders who identify as girls, women and/or trans, non-binary, queer, and/or gender expansive. Scholarships are available for any family or youth in need for summer camps, and scholarships are also available to any skater in need for Memorial Day and Spring Break youth skate camps.
Free loaner gear is available for Memorial Day and Spring Break youth skate camps, and free youth skate classes welcome youth of all genders from West Oakland and East Oakland and provide gear so participants are instructed to just bring themselves. The program partners with or recommends partners such as All Together Skatepark in Seattle, Rob Skate Academy in the Bay Area, and Stronger Skatepark in Portland for private lessons and birthday parties. The organization also runs free youth skateboarding classes in connection with the West Oakland Branch and 81st Avenue Branch of the Oakland Public Library.
The leadership team for Youth Summer Camps and related programs includes directors and program managers Erika, Patricia, and Carlee, along with additional staff such as Collin, Gabe, Jacque, Maxine, Mara Lei Monteiro, Yejun, Diana, Gezel-Jan, Kaitlyn, Jessica, Kelsey, Michelle, Cristiano, and Mateo. Erika has over 10 years of experience in volunteer recruitment, community engagement, managing teams, and partnership development, and has a BS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and is finishing an MS in the same field and focus. Staff credentials also include Mara working toward a BS in Film, Gezel-Jan holding a BA in Psychology from California State University of San Bernardino, Kelsey studying engineering at the University of Washington, and Mateo studying Environmental Science at the University of Washington.
Skate Like a Girl states that it acknowledges operating on the traditional and unceded land of Indigenous communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and suggests giving shuumi, a voluntary land tax, to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. It encourages self-education, sharing, and donating to Indigenous-led efforts including Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Friendship House SF, American Indian Child Resource Center, and Turtle Island Skateboard Project. The organization describes itself as dedicated to empowering individuals, especially young women, trans, non-binary, and gender expansive people, to grow as confident leaders who champion equity through skateboarding.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
• Ages: 6–16 years old
• Schedule: Half-day youth summer camps and skate camps typically run 9:00 AM–12:00 PM or 9:00 AM–1:00 PM on specific weeks and dates; adult workshops run 9:00 AM–12:00 PM on select Saturdays
• Price: Half-day youth summer day camps cost $319; the Memorial Day youth skate camp costs $89; adult workshops cost $99 per session
Youth Summer Camps is part of Skate Like a Girl, a nonprofit organization formed in 2000 with over 25 years of impact. The organization states a mission to create an inclusive community by promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through skateboarding, and it operates chapters in Seattle, Portland, and the San Francisco Bay Area, serving thousands of individuals annually with a variety of programs and events. The program offers All Gender Weeks for skateboarders of all genders ages 6–13, and it states that camps are open to ages 6–16, all genders, and all skill levels.
The program notes that summer day camps use skateboarding as a tool for creativity, confidence, and community, and that camps incorporate learning to skateboard through discussion and practice of life lessons and themes such as Self Confidence, Humility, being Radical, Equity and Determination (SHRED). Programs also include Women &/or Trans Sessions and adult workshops that are described as exclusive spaces for skateboarders who identify as girls, women and/or trans, non-binary, queer, and/or gender expansive. Scholarships are available for any family or youth in need for summer camps, and scholarships are also available to any skater in need for Memorial Day and Spring Break youth skate camps.
Free loaner gear is available for Memorial Day and Spring Break youth skate camps, and free youth skate classes welcome youth of all genders from West Oakland and East Oakland and provide gear so participants are instructed to just bring themselves. The program partners with or recommends partners such as All Together Skatepark in Seattle, Rob Skate Academy in the Bay Area, and Stronger Skatepark in Portland for private lessons and birthday parties. The organization also runs free youth skateboarding classes in connection with the West Oakland Branch and 81st Avenue Branch of the Oakland Public Library.
The leadership team for Youth Summer Camps and related programs includes directors and program managers Erika, Patricia, and Carlee, along with additional staff such as Collin, Gabe, Jacque, Maxine, Mara Lei Monteiro, Yejun, Diana, Gezel-Jan, Kaitlyn, Jessica, Kelsey, Michelle, Cristiano, and Mateo. Erika has over 10 years of experience in volunteer recruitment, community engagement, managing teams, and partnership development, and has a BS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and is finishing an MS in the same field and focus. Staff credentials also include Mara working toward a BS in Film, Gezel-Jan holding a BA in Psychology from California State University of San Bernardino, Kelsey studying engineering at the University of Washington, and Mateo studying Environmental Science at the University of Washington.
Skate Like a Girl states that it acknowledges operating on the traditional and unceded land of Indigenous communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and suggests giving shuumi, a voluntary land tax, to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. It encourages self-education, sharing, and donating to Indigenous-led efforts including Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Friendship House SF, American Indian Child Resource Center, and Turtle Island Skateboard Project. The organization describes itself as dedicated to empowering individuals, especially young women, trans, non-binary, and gender expansive people, to grow as confident leaders who champion equity through skateboarding.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
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