K-W West Staff

Carolyn Griffiths - KW West Trip Leader & Program Coordinator
Carolyn "Griff" Griffiths is currently a teacher at the Leadership School at Kieve and has been involved in the organization since arriving in the fall of 2010. This past summer she led the first ever Wavus Maine Trails trip, guiding girls around Penobscot Bay in Kayaks and hiking the last one hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail. Other past trips of hers have included back country hiking in the Wind River Range of Wyoming, rock climbing epxeditions in Kentucky and Nevada and numerous trips in the White Mountains of New England. She enjoys working with students from Maine during the Leadership School season and spends her weekends climbing locally, running, and planning for future adventures.

Henry R. Kennedy - Executive Director
Henry Kennedy has served as Kieve’s Executive Director since 1991 and is the third generation of his family at the helm. Henry graduated from Colby College in 1980 then worked as a Certified Public Accountant in California and Portland, Maine. His non-profit experience includes 2 terms elected to the Cumberland, Maine school board, member of the Colby College Board of Overseers, appointment to the Great Ponds Taskforce by Governor King, past president of the Maine Youth Camping Association, past member of Allagash Wilderness Waterway advisory committee, founding board member of the Family Ice Center in Falmouth, Maine, member of Governor Baldacci’s Equity in Education taskforce, and member of Maine Huts and Trails board. He was a Kieve camper from 1967 through 1972 and a counselor from 1973-1980. He lives in Cumberland and Nobleboro, Maine with his wife, B.J., and their 2 children, Sam and Blair.