Jonas Jankauskas joins the team as our Community Engagement Manager and is responsible for maintaining relationships with the broader Neringa family, through on and off-season programming, communications, marketing and fundraising. Jonas is also from New York, and his ties to Neringa go back to his močiute, Eleonora, who frequently worked in the kitchen when he and his four sisters were campers. Having graduated as a camper from one of the last all-boys camp sessions, he believed his Neringa “career” to be complete. However, a chance meeting with Aldona Lingertaitienė at a Lithuanian scout outing in Michigan changed all, when she urged him to return as a counselor that summer for the Lithuanian-speaking session. That first 2-week experience blossomed into a nearly decade-long run as a counselor, working all of the summer sessions during his last several years, one of which even included the first-ever Heritage family camp.

Vydas Marijošius joins the team as our General Manager and is responsible for the overall management of CNI to assure that the Mission is integrated into the programs, services and operations. In other words, Vydas will be the first "point person" when you reach out to Neringa. Vydas is from New York, and has been a camper, counselor, family camp camper, and program coordinator at Neringa. Since the 1980s, started camping at age six, was a camper at the last of the Lithuanian boys’ camps and the first co-ed session. Throughout that time, he somehow managed to never win Sports Day (and as such is still looking forward to his first sweet taste of victory watermelon). Having graduated from camp, he spent the entire next two summers as a counselor at all of the camps, which was an eye-opening experience that showed the breadth of Neringa's offerings and the size and strength of its community.

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Darius has been a Camp Neringa Inc. Board Director since 2019 and President since 2021. With more than 15 years working in marketing and communications, Darius has a background in marketing strategy, branding, storytelling, design and data analytics. He got his start in communications working with nonprofits, including several NGOs in Lithuania, where he has worked in politics, human rights and was even a summer camp counselor in Vilnius. As a long-time Neringa camper, counselor, coordinator and parent to two campers, Darius has a keen interest in Neringa's mission of nurturing Lithuanian culture, Catholic values and providing opportunities for personal growth.

Darius has been a Camp Neringa Inc. Board Director since 2019 and President since 2021. With more than 15 years working in marketing and communications, Darius has a background in marketing strategy, branding, storytelling, design and data analytics. He got his start in communications working with nonprofits, including several NGOs in Lithuania, where he has worked in politics, human rights and was even a summer camp counselor in Vilnius. As a long-time Neringa camper, counselor, coordinator and parent to two campers, Darius has a keen interest in Neringa's mission of nurturing Lithuanian culture, Catholic values and providing opportunities for personal growth.