YES! Staff

Shilpa Jain is the Executive Director of YES!.  She has been a member of the Jamily (Jam family) for nearly ten years, and, in that time, has co-facilitated and co-organized nearly 20 Jams around the world.  She is a learning activist who spent ten years working with Shikshantar, based in Udaipur, India. Her passions are around healthy food, organic farming, cooperative games, zero waste and diverse ways of building learning communities. Prior to serving YES! in this capacity, she spent two years with Other Worlds, an organization focused on alternatives in economics, ecology, education.

Michele Robbins is supporting as Managing Director. Ever since she arrived bright eyed at her first YES! Camp 17 years ago at the age of 18, she has been living and breathing YES!: serving as the Executive Director, then President, then on the Board. She is thrilled to help shepherd YES! into its next iteration. In addition, she is now focused on directing a transformational Sonrise program for her 10-year-old twins with autism, growing her family's garden, singing/songwriting, and supporting healing and transformation for friends and loved ones.