Our Amazing Staff

We have many wonderful staff members for our year round events and summer camps. Below are the ones who work in our office daily or serve in leadership roles in our community. All our staff share a deep love for the work we do and for the participants who attend our many events.

Our Summer Staff

At Wayfinder we hold our staff to a standard of excellence that has allowed Wayfinder to be one of the Hudson Valley’s most celebrated summer camps since the early 2000’s. Wayfinder staff are trained in all of the building blocks of our camp and program. This includes our LARP programming, foam swordplay, our game systems, improvisational theater, collaborative storytelling as well as the realities of childcare and development that are present in running a summer camp. We focus heavily on safety and well-being to ensure that all of our campers feel comfortable engaging and have their basic needs met, while being immersed in our fun time tested program!

Wayfinder hires staff who have come up through our programming and also staff who are brand new to Wayfinder, LARPing, or even roleplaying. We seek to build a team who can provide the best care and experience to our campers in any given summer. Our staff are committed to building a safe and welcoming space where participants can build friendships that will last them a lifetime.

Year-round Staff

Judson Packard (they/them/ey/em), Executive Director

Judson Easton Packard graduated from Kansas State with a Bachelor’s degree in English and from Rutgers with an MFA in Creative Writing. They have been involved with the Wayfinder Experience since 2003 when they first came as a camper. They were on the Rules and Regulations board from 2013-2018. Before that they served the community by serving on the Hiring Board, and working every event they were given the opportunity to. They believe in hill trolls and LARP because the costumes bring out their eyes. In 2023 Judson became an owner as well.

Trine Boode-Petersen (none/they/them), Marketing Director and Programming Lead

Trine is a graduate of the New School: Eugene Lang College where they received a BA in The Arts: Theater. Trine has been teaching and director theater for all ages since they were 16, and working for Wayfinder since they were age 18.
Trine is a theater professional, with over 20 years of experience. Their passion for education through the arts goes back over half their life when T was a 15 year old Wayfinder camper and lived on a small farm in Massachusetts. One thing to know about Trine is that T is always ready for an adventure!

Lee Jackson Sorge (he/him), Warehouse Manager

Lee is an artist, writer and musician born and raised in the Hudson Valley. When he was eleven years old, Lee attended his first Wayfinder event and was enchanted by the magic of play and the joy of creating fantastical worlds. Lee has worked as staff for Wayfinder for since 2013, relishing in the ability to help bring dreams to life and the opportunity to be a part of the community he has come to call home.

Jordan Nagel (she/her), Programming Lead

Jordan grew up in ulster county where she developed a love of the outdoors. Her passion for personal development and outdoor education made Wayfinder a natural fit. She is a former biathlete on the US development team and D1 Nordic skier. Jordan holds an EMT license because every party needs a healer.
On weekends and days off you can find her running, painting, and rock climbing.

Deanna Abrams (she/her), Programming Director

Deanna first found Wayfinder through her cousin and began attending as a camper at the age of 14. Throughout college and her early career, Deanna made time every summer to work as a staff member at camp where she found joy in teaching improv and playing games with campers of all ages. While Deanna studied physics in college and worked for years in STEM fields, she loves to express her creative side through theater, and has performed improv live in San Fransisco. In the summer of 2025, after over a decade of living in California, Deanna pivoted her career out of the tech industry and moved to New York to join Wayfinder’s full time staff team.

Janet Packard (she/her), Executive Administrative Director

Janet was originally drawn to the Wayfinder Experience as the mother of our very own Jud Packard. As a parent she drove long hours, endured confusing LARP stories, and delighted in seeing the growth that Jud went through at camp. After a very beneficial run in the office from 2008-2011, she returned in 2017 as our Executive Administrative Director. And has since then joined the owner pool in 2023. Janet is also a former lawyer and loves the color purple.

Jack Purcell (he/him), Programming Lead

Jack grew up going to Wayfinder with the same friends he works with today. He never misses an opportunity for a fun swordfight or goofy game, and chances are if you’ve been to a Wayfinder event in the last few years you’ve either seen him there or heard our campers chanting his name. Jack has been serving as our Workshop Head at overnight camps since 2022. When he isn’t organizing camp games Jack is often losing Warhammer games to his friends or DMing his latest RPG campaign.

Olivia Buzzelle (she/her), Warehouse Lead 

Olivia is a graduate of Bard College where she received a bachelor’s degree in Art History. She is going on to receive her MLitt in Dress and textile histories from the University of Glasgow. But before she moves overseas, she is working with us, mending, making and enhancing our costumes. She has been a part of the Wayfinder community since 2015 as a camper, and working in a leadership role at camp since 2022 as the Production Head at overnight camps. She loves swimming and dancing.

Committee for Community Concerns

Wayfinder’s Committee For Community Concerns is dedicated to providing a safe, supportive, and caring environment for participants, staff, and community members. This board, which is purely an advisory board, receives reports and concerns from the community, and tries to address those concerns in order to maintain a positive space at camp. The board has a commitment to confidentiality, and, as such, submitting a report does not guarantee the reporter a knowledge of the outcome. The board also maintains the Rules and Regulations section of the staff handbook, and provides an annual training for each staff member. Reports can be submitted to WayfinderCCC@gmail.com. The current board members are…

Reilly JeckerByrne (he/him)

Reilly got his start at Wayfinder when he was 17 and has been working as a staff member for ever since, jumping on every chance to work events in the summer and year round. He particularly loves working as a Counselor as that role allows for an opportunity to really get close with the community and participants. When he’s not working Wayfinder, Reilly works at Half Moon Books and spends his days digging through books, old and new, looking for treasures.

Alyssa Greenway (she/they)

Alyssa first came to Wayfinder as a participant at the fabled Unison Day Camps. She loved turning fantasy into reality, supporting her friends and saving lives as a stalwart cleric. Alyssa took some time away from camp to pursue her passions in the visual arts, and in 2018 as a staff member. She deeply enjoys teaching LARPs & Crafts, running trust workshops, and helping build the magic of cooperative storytelling.

Lynsey Ford (She/her)

Lynsey is a versatile powerhouse! A graduate of Brown University, Lynsey has worked for MIT as the Program Administrator for MITES, a weekend engineering program to help middle and high school students reach their highest potential. Now she works as a cake decorator for Laselle in RI, where she gets to show off her fabulous artistic skills. She has been working for Wayfinder since 2022, holding a number of positions such as counselor, workshop and photographer. She is thrilled to be taking part in this new role as a CCC member, supporting the community she holds dear.

Claire McHarg (she/they)

Claire is a young scientist who used to make the long trip up from Philadelphia to camp, but after going to Wayfinder since 2014 has finally settled in the Hudson Valley. Following the theater kid to workshop instructor to director pipeline, Claire has always loved giving their all when at camp and is so excited to join the CCC to keep supporting the community. In her free time these days, she is directing plays and looking at rocks before the next big cool thing starts.

Board of Directors

Reed Mollins (He/Him), Board Member/Treasurer

Once upon a time in Woodstock, a boy and his mother discovered a doorway to another world in a summer camp ad in the paper. Reed stepped through that door and never really left– starting with daycamps, moving to overnights, experiencing advanced camp, and joining the staff; He is now serving as senior leadership in the institution itself as the Treasurer. A product of Simon’s Rock and Purchase College, his professional life is a tale of software ventures, now in executive leadership at Press Ganey focused on the art of patient-centric care. His heart remains rooted in the Hudson Valley community. As a parent to two beautiful, chaotic monsters, Reed serves on the Board to ensure the program that helped write his story remains a sanctuary for every kid looking for their own magic.

Corinne McDonald (she/her), Board President

Corinne grew up a in military family and lived in a number of wonderful places as a child, before settling in Virginia Beach. It was while attending the Virginia Beach Friends School that she first encountered Wayfinder (then known as Adventure Game Theater) and discovered her passion for building strong, supportive communities while running around in fairy wings.
All these years later, she is still passionate about this work, and considers the friends she made at camp part of her family. Over the years, Corinne has worked every staff position at camp, directed overnight and day camps, and served on the Hiring Board. Before taking over full-time management of Wayfinder in 2012, Corrie was a butcher, a baker but never a candlestick maker. She loves her mother.