Ellise Shafer editorFor Jackie McGuire, CEO and founder of production company Rave Family, music has always felt like more than a hobby.
But with a burgeoning career in finance, McGuire settled for attending any EDM festival she could to blow off steam – until an opportunity fell into her lap during the inaugural year of Camp EDC in 2018.As she hopped from festival to festival in a 40-foot-long school bus she’d bought with her husband, McGuire grew increasingly concerned about the accessibility of these events.
Tickets were incredibly expensive, most of them weren’t wheelchair-friendly and even camping had its barriers. What started with emailing a list of harm-reduction services to Camp EDC’s organizers turned into manufacturing thousands.
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