Senior leaders are typically teachers, graduate students, and college seniors.
Assistant leaders are usually college sophomores and juniors.
Many are former SHP trip participants. Each senior leadership applicant goes through a lengthy application process and a personal interview with a director. Phone interviews are not acceptable. Leaders selected after this screening must complete one of our 5-day training courses in Massachusetts before being assigned a trip. We do not assign a first year leader to trips based solely on his or her application form.