Who We Are
Hannah Barker Nickolay
Hannah Barker Nickolay (she/her) grew up in the cornfields of northwest Iowa. These days, she lives in west Michigan. She loves the trees but misses the wind.
As a member and co-founder of Wayfolk, Hannah is passionate about helping others engage scripture with curiosity and creativity. She works to create spaces—physical spaces and worship spaces—for others to experience love and belonging and to encounter God. She dreams of more people at the table.
Hannah has an M.Div. from Western Theological Seminary and a B.A. in Theatre from Northwestern College.
She is a licensed candidate for ordination in the Reformed Church in America. #sheiscalled
Hannah loves dandelions, dragons, poetry, telling stories communally via playing D&D with her friends, and feeding people.
Jackson Nickolay
Jackson Nickolay (he/him) is originally from the North Woods of Minnesota along the shore of Lake Superior, but has lived in Michigan for the last 6 years. He is a theatre artist and enjoys practicing his art through acting, producing, playwriting, directing, and even analysis on a weekly theatre podcast called No Script: The Podcast. He also graduated with a Master of Divinity from Western Theological Seminary with a focus on worship design and is a licensed candidate for ordination in the Reformed Church of America.
As a member and co-founder of Wayfolk Arts, Jackson has a passion for living into the dual vocation of an artist and a minister and finds application for these callings in worship music, embodied scripture, performance criticism, theatre, and liturgical arts.
His interests include camping, hiking, tabletop games, Celtic Spirituality, D&D, pretentious coffee brewing, bread making, and discovering new facets of being an enneagram 3.
Maddie Lambert
Maddie (she/her) is originally from the westside suburbs of Chicago, Illinois but has enjoyed her time in Michigan since 2013. She currently resides with her spouse, Dylan, and their cat, Appa. Maddie is an enneagram 8, an active user of curse words, provider of spaces where people can be and discover their full selves, and instigator of the best kind of shenanigans. She plans to join her fellow WayFolk artists in being a Master of Divinity in 2023.
As a co-conspirator of WayFolk, Maddie believes that every moment can be sacred and looks forward to creating resources for people to engage moments as such. Including: the holy, the painful, the silly, the new, the challenging, and even (gasp!) the curse word inspiring.
Her interests include creating new things, drinking coffee, reading FanFiction, telling stories, going to therapy, and breaking the tension through sarcasm. Maddie loves dinosaurs. She is currently a candidate in the PCUSA and hopes to one day be ordained.
Phil Quinn
Phil Quinn (he/him) grew up in the Les Cheneaux Islands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Phil is a lover of story – a love shaped by talking beasts and magical wardrobes, pirates and princesses, empires and rebels, and the everyday events in the life of the person living down the street.
Phil is a student of history, a teller of stories, an enneagram 9, and a disciple of Jesus. His journey has included seasons of storytelling and community cultivating in children and youth ministry, program development and relationship building in a local resource ministry, leading a congregation as a church pastor, and walking alongside people one-on-one as a therapist. He holds a B.A. in World Religions, an M.Div. from Western Theological Seminary, and is in the process of completing a M.A. in Counseling from Northwestern University. Phil is an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America.
Phil enjoys writing, performing, speaking, teaching, conflict resolution, nurturing inclusive spaces, and mentoring others along the way. He is a lover of spiritual disciplines, comics, anime, sci-fi and fantasy, tabletop roleplaying games, miniature painting, thunderstorms, and coffee.