Peace Camp Staff

Jennifer Holt Enriquez (Jen, she/her/hers) is a Christian formation professional at St. Christopher’s in Oak Park in the Diocese of Chicago. She is a licensed attorney by formal education, focusing on helping folks understand the legal system and make plans for future contingencies. Jen began working with kids in a professional capacity when her own kids were in preschool. She transitioned to ministry in 2015. Jen is an advocate for Christian formation and the importance of lay ministers within the church. In 2017 Jen organized the first Peace Camp for kids in Oak Park, now expanded to other communities in the western suburbs of Chicago. Jen began her antiracist journey in 2020 and connected with Will Bouvel. She and Will created Tell Me the Truth About Racism as a way to talk with kids and adults about this problem in our world through the lens of faith.

Jen’s family includes husband Tony, kids Eddie (13) and Luke (12), and three dachshunds. She loves to get her hands dirty in the garden and recently began fostering monarch caterpillars. She has completed ten marathons. Jen grew up in North Dakota, spent 27 years in Virginia, and identifies as white.

Rev Will William Bouvel (Will, he/him/his) was ordained in the diocese of Chicago in 2022 and was previously Director of Children’s Ministries for 5 years at St. Chrysostom’s Church Chicago. He completed his Masters of Divinity in 2020 at the University of Chicago and also holds a Masters in Music from the Royal Academy of Music London. He’s had several previous careers as a classical tenor soloist, computer programmer, and aspiring urban planner. Will identifies as White and is originally from the Philadelphia suburbs.

Will's graduate thesis "Recovering Scripture through the Sacred Imagination of Bibliodrama" explores how imagination is essential to scriptural interpretation. Bibliodrama (developed by Peter Pitzele) and other wondering-based approaches easily invite individuals and communities, especially children, into the ongoing work to make meaning from the holy texts that tell us who and whose we are.

In 2018 Will started exploring the idea of an “antiracist Sunday School” and has been working with Children’s Formation leaders for several years to grow that work. The 2020 pandemic and outcry over racial injustice catalyzed this work in October 2020 when the Holy Spirit connected him with Jen Enriquez over a zoom session. He now works with her in sharing the good news that comes from bringing children into the work of dismantling racism. Their work together has been a great joy.

Outside of ministry, Will and husband Fred are new dads to their toddler daughter. Will loves living in Chicago, cooking, biking, bird watching, Star Trek, and yoga.

Shawn Amador, LCSW grew up attending a Methodist Church sponsored Music, Arts, and Drama camp every summer. She loved taking the clowning workshop and eventually ran the clowning workshop herself when she was in college. It was really a great experience just being able to be free and express oneself through play with others! When Shawn became a social worker, she created a clowning (now improv/sketch comedy) program at her school. In the creation of Social Theatre™, Shawn continues to utilize clowning and improvisation in her work with children in schools, clinical settings, and in the community to help bring people together through the art of play, peace, and humor.

In utilizing theatre and sketch comedy, Shawn has seen many children become more expressive and comfortable with themselves as well as provide a platform to increase social interactions.

Some of the cool places Shawn has been able to clown are in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital. Other places her groups have performed are at the Governor's All Kids Event at NEIU, Navy Pier, special recreation programs, the Yes and Mental Health Conference at the Annoyance Theatre, schools, nursing homes, and Brookfield Zoo.

Professionally, Shawn has given workshops at many conferences including the Illinois Association of School Social Worker Conference, the Yes and Mental Health Conference, Social Thinking® Providers Conference, and Lagrange Area Department of Special Education. In 2009, she was honored to receive the Heartspring Creativity and Innovation in Special Education Award and has most recently published a book called “Teaching Social Skills through Sketch Comedy and Improv Games.”

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Theresa O'Neil, A yoga instructor since 2010, Theresa practices and shares yoga as movement meditation, challenging and nurturing students, body, mind and spirit. She has more than 1,000 hours of training, is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) 500, and is currently studying with master teacher Shiva Rea. Theresa completed the Decolonizing Yoga and Dismantling Racism program with Nya Patrinos and Riley Skye of Yoga Jubilee in 2021.

Theresa is also a marketing executive with more than 25 years of experience leading high growth technology companies. She takes the power of yoga and meditation off the mat and into the workplace, where she is an active advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion. She has led yoga classes, meditation workshops and anti-racism discussion groups at technology companies throughout the midwest. Theresa is also active in empowering and mentoring women in tech.

When not yoga-ing or working, Theresa is baking sourdough bread, hiking or beaching in the Indiana Dunes National Park, or (at least pre-COVID) traveling.

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