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f ever in doubt about sending
a kid to Tamarack Camps or
encouraging your teen to then
jump into volunteer service with the
Detroit nonprofit Summer in the
City, just talk to Ben Falik at Repair
the World (RTW) Detroit — or
meet Ari Cicurel, in charge of this
summer's TSS (Teen Service Staff)
at Tamarack Camps.
Founder of Summer in the City in
2002, and now Detroit director of
RTW, Ben is on a mission to change
the landscape of student volunteer
programs in the city through pur-
poseful and playful work in partner-
ship with a network of organizations
investing their energies in Detroit.
Seven years ago, Summer in the
City partnered with Tamarack to
provide campers a service oppor-
tunity in the city. And today, with
thanks to the Stephen H. Schulman
Millennium Fund, the program has
evolved into a more encompassing
program involving the camp's junior
staff.
And that's where Ari comes in. A
camper at Tamarack since he was
8 years old, Ari is now in his 13th
season at camp and a stellar example
of the caliber of young people who
return each summer to become
counselors and staff. At 21, Ari is a
recent graduate of the University of

Michigan, heading to Kings College
in London next year to earn his mas-
ter's degree in war studies.
"I realize I could be spending the
rest of my life explaining what my
field of study is," says Ari. (Ari's aca-
demic interest has little to do with
camping, but everything to do with
building and solidifying his Jewish
identity.)
He explains that as he spent
a semester in his junior year in
Washington, D.C., at a think tank
working with an Israeli Defense
Forces (IDF) officer who steered his
interest in Israel toward research.
Additionally, his affinity for the
study was fueled in Jerusalem, where
he spent last summer during the
2014 conflict with Gaza. "Those
experiences exposed me to the idea
that you don't have to work in the
military to learn and write about
conflict in the world and influence
change. The way we like to talk
about war studies is to say that we
want to work ourselves out of a job
someday:'

Taking 'Victory Lap'
After Graduation
Though this will be Ari's last sum-
mer at Tamarack, his enthusiasm
for the TSS program has not dimin-
ished. Describing this summer as
his "victory lap:' Ari started as a TSS
member three years ago and "fell
in love with the program" as it fit
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