Our Team

  • Co-Founder, School Director

    Rochelle is the daughter of Debbie, wife of Don and mother to Jovian and Soleil. She is originally from California, USA and was raised in the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe. She knew she wanted to be a teacher at a young age and chose to study English at University primarily because she felt she could make the most impact on the hearts of her students through a subject centered around communication and understanding. After undergrad, eager to enter a classroom and start impacting young lives, Rochelle joined Teach For America and worked as a high school English teacher in the south side of Chicago. She earned her Masters of Arts in Teaching and after the two-year teaching commitment, pivoted toward a career in wilderness therapy and ski instruction. She witnessed first-hand the healing benefits of nature and deepened her knowledge of outdoor leadership through a NOLS Outdoor Educator Course. An avid outdoorswoman, traveler and life-long student (learner), Rochelle always felt led to create a school environment that balanced a deep love and appreciation for the outdoors with rich content learning. Concerned for the hearts of her students and their families, Rochelle’s priority is to create a welcoming and respectful community that teaches youth how to live responsibly, powerfully and joyfully.

  • Co-Founder and Project Director

    Carolina is the Mom of Andina and Quino and has several educational projects in Austin, Texas, USA. Originally from Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, Carolina discovered her passion for education through the Montessori philosophy when she first became a Mom. Before that, she was on TV and film production and journalism in Argentina, working along with her husband Ty. During their Texan chapter, life challenged them into raising children in a different culture, that’s when she felt the call to found an alternative school option in her town: La Tribu, the first Spanish Immersion Montessori preschool in Austin. Their mission was promoting bilingualism from the early years and creating opportunities to connect with nature, even when they were in a big city. Later on, during the pandemic crisis, they created  a homeschooling pod in their homestead’s backyard, GreenDome Project. It was a creative response to a very important need: for children to experience childhood in a safe and natural way, apart from screens and connecting with peers and community. Those were years of wood chopping, fire making, capturing critters from the creek, building playgrounds on the tree tops and yet more edible gardens.

    After 12 years in Texas she decided to move back to Bariloche to continue her intertwined passion for guiding children in connection to the outdoors and facilitating educational environments for that purpose. Her latest mission is to create a patagonian hub where families, children and educators alike, come together to cultivate a regenerative school culture within a strong community that evolves together around the values of love, respect, empathy, autonomy and care for Mother Earth.

  • Education Consultant 

    Eldest daughter of Marcos and Sofia, sister to Pilar, Tomas, Alfonso & Charlie. Agustina has lived abroad 11 years, which has provided her with an open and multicultural mindset. She chose Bariloche as her place to live as an adult, to live a life outdoors. She enjoys hiking, trail running, backcountry skiing, rock climbing, and nature photography. She is passionate about how education can change lives profoundly and create new narratives to live in our Home Planet. Her studies include a B.A. in Education by the Universidad de San Andres, outdoor education and Master Leave No Trace by National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), and environmental education by Universidad de Comahue. She’s currently studying to be a Mountain Guide by the Instituto Superior Argentino de Guia de Montaña (ISAGM-AAGM). She is a firm believer that the outdoors should be an accessible place for all types of people to grow and flourish. When she’s not in Bariloche, she’s out exploring nature in some beautiful part of the world.