The Rev. Kyle Oliver, EdD
I’m an Episcopal priest supporting growth in faith & faith-adjacent settings through participatory learning & creative media practices. I’m also a multimodal education researcher; multimedia writer, producer, & editor; experienced teacher & coach; minister in the Episcopal tradition; & former nuclear systems analyst & modeler.
Here are some specifics about what I’ve been up to since my ordination in 2012.
- strategic organizational communications direction, including magazine, digital, and mail piece production, at Church Divinity School of the Pacific;
- research about making meaning by making media in faith-adjacent settings as a graduate researcher and post-graduate fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University;
- product development, including digital communication audits and on-demand and hybrid ministry training resources, at Learning Forte;
- production of The Way of Love with Bishop Michael Curry and other podcast episodes and series;
- research, publishing, and resource development about how religious leadership formation programs address digital literacy, plus development of what at the time was a premier digital ministry training community in the height of the social media era, at Virginia Theological Seminary;
- research, media production, and advocacy with the Media and Social Change Lab;
- liturgical, pastoral, Christian formation, and evangelism ministry leadership at St. Michael’s Church in New York, St. Paul’s Parish (K Street) in Washington, Trinity+St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco, and as a volunteer at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco and St. Lawrence Episcopal Church in Libertyville, IL.
I’m married to the Rev. Kristin Saylor, the rector of St. Lawrence here in far north Chicagoland. We live in Libertyville with our daughter, Fiona.
Before seminary I worked as a research and project assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing a master’s thesis in nuclear fuel cycle systems analysis and editing Teaching and Learning Insights for the Engineering Learning Center. I also helped found The Hacker Within, a forum for networking and peer training among students and faculty in computational science software development.
I enjoy running, yoga, surfing, paddling, soul and jazz music, comics, makerspaces, Wisconsin sports teams, and miscellaneous groundskeeper tinkering in the Saylor-Oliver family garden, which is a borderline hobby farm.