Eileen Shanley-Roberts is the Assistant Director of Formation and Contextual Learning and Lecturer in Practical Theology. A Medievalist by training, Eileen completed both bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Notre Dame and taught church history and theology at Marian High School in Mishawaka, Indiana. Prior to ordination, Eileen was a campus minister at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 2004 Eileen received her M.Div. from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. and was ordained in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. From 2007 to 2018 Eileen was the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Waukegan, IL. She is currently completing her thesis for the D.Min. in Congregational Development at Bexley Seabury. Her practical ministry specialties are building maintenance and church finance.
Having grown up along the Mississippi river in Iowa and Wisconsin, Eileen has a keen interest in the intersection of economic and environmental justice and their impact on communities. She serves on the steering team of Lake County United (an IAF affiliate), co-chairs Clean Power Lake County, and is a founding board member of Waukegan to College. She and her husband, Ross Shanley-Roberts, recently moved to Highland Park. They have two daughters and two pugs.
View Eileen Shanley-Roberts’ CV. Email: eshanleyroberts@bexleyseabury.edu