Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez recently graduated from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota with a Master of Divinity degree. During the height of the pandemic, she served as Vicar in a sole pastoral presence to the congregation of St. Andrew Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Currently, Ohman-Rodriguez is awaiting her first call in Word and Sacrament ministry in the ELCA. Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez’s first book, A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance: A Love Story of Grief, Trauma, Healing, and Faith, was released earlier this year and is published by Chalice Press. She also curates Trauma Recovery at Compassionate Christianity. Ohman-Rodriguez’s extensive work in faith formation curricula published by 1517 Media and Westminster John Knox Press is in the resources Spark, Whirl, Frolic, Feasting on the Word, Christ in our Home, Sundays and Seasons, as well as in leader sourcebooks accompanying the work the Dan Erlander. Her magazine articles and essays appear in Gather, The Christian Century, Young Children, Young Children and the Creative Arts, QC Family Focus, The Lutheran, The Lutheran Digest, Zoay, Books Make a Difference, The Living Lutheran, Faith+Lead as well as The Little Lutheran and The Little Christian. Ohman-Rodriguez worked in the early care and education field for twenty years earning a Master of Education degree from the Erikson Institute for Advanced Studies in Child Development in Chicago, Illinois. Before becoming an educator, Ohman-Rodriguez was a professionally trained musician with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.