Leadership Team
Committed to ensuring that the staff and students have a fun and loving atmosphere full of love and support. They are passionate about ensuring the environment is healthy for all those that enter the Adventure Cove space.
Executive Director
Alicia Ochola
M.S. Early Childhood Development
B.S. Childhood Education
Three years experience training elementary teachers in Uganda, five years working at Carthage Central School District, five years administration experience at BASIC College Ministries
Associate Director
Genevieve Pedaci
10 years of pastoral leadership experience, she taught church classes for ages 2-17 for a number of years, summer camp leadership experience, from 2017-2020, she led activities and coordinated host family experience for the international student program, and mother of three girls, ages 10-14
Program Advisor
Joan Banach
B.S. Speech Therapy
25 years experience working at Kidstart as a speech therapist and evaluation team leader, administrator of a private school for 10 years, overseeing curriculum and instruction of students
Staff
Meet the leadership and team that will be creating an environment of care and joy for your child/children.
Special Guests
Meet our specials teachers and our alternate teachers. Our specials teachers over see our programs such as sporting activities, cooking, and gardening just to name a few. Our alternate teachers are teachers that will rotate in and out at times with our main stay teachers. All teachers have a passion to ser
Outdoor Adventure
Moses Ochola
Certified as Organic Agricultural Trainer
Agriculture trainer, teaching how to use organic pesticides, and how to develop and maintain proper soil health.
Experimental Cooking
Pearl Brunt
Founder and Director of “Le Twisted Spoon”, a vegan whole food advocacy website, where she shares her own experiences with quality food and sustainability. Pearl has taught cooking at homeschool co-ops, and is a mom to two amazing girls who she currently homeschools.
Adventures in Art
Lex Blaakman
Lex Blaakman is a wood sculptor, painter, and graphite drawing artist of the Finger Lakes area. He has created professionally since 1976, when he was awarded his first commission of an oil portrait for Brighton High School's Art Department Chairman. As an artist, he learned that an artist's career must involve learning in all fields of education. However, he realized that knowledge helps create informative art, but applying the issues of the heart and spirit of man raises art to its higher values.
Alternate Teacher
Brock Thrasher
A.S. Marketing
B.S. Elementary Education
Eight years experience at the YMCA as a fitness personal trainer, lifeguard, before and after school coordinator, and camp counselor. He was then promoted to Camp Family and Teen Director for two years. He also had experience at Village Sports as Operations Director, and met his wife, Stephanie, there. Brock is currently a football coach for the Geneseo Jr. Blue Devils. He also works as a peer mental health specialist, working with youth, teen, and adult mental health support services for all of Livingston County.
Alternate Teacher
Stephanie Brock
B.S. Mathematics
Director of the after-school program in Fairport for one year. Extensive experience in elementary classrooms, and children’s extracurricular programs. Experience teaching 5th grade math in South Africa, for three weeks. Stephanie is a math whiz, and currently works as Senior Consultant and Project Manager for Data Strategy, Management, and Analytics. The Thrasher family is settled in Geneseo with their three sons and daughter. You can find this energetic group outside with their Rescue dog Rambo practicing football, or camping whenever they get the opportunity!