[2] After graduating, Camp worked as an educational organizer in Chicago, creating and putting into practice programs designed to help residents of public housing study for their GED's and programs to provide instruction in English as a second language to members of Chicago's Latino community.
[2] Camp eventually decided to return to school, and received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.
[2][3] In 2013, Camp accepted a tenured offer from Rutgers University where she is Professor of Philosophy (and where she is additionally affiliated with the Center for Cognitive Science.
Along with Elizabeth Harman and Jill North, Camp initiated and co-organized Athena in Action, a series of workshops aimed at providing mentorship and networking opportunities to graduate student women in philosophy, which met at Princeton in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
[1] Much of Camp's research has focused on forms of thought and speech that do not fit neatly in to standard propositional models.