Rooted in Durham, NC, the homelands of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Noah Rubin-Blose (he/him) went to rabbinical school in order to resource his home community. He is a dreamer and listener, maker of queer ritual, teacher and facilitator, a builder of interfaith coalitions, a lifelong participant in Southern movements for racial justice, and a student of Jewish ancestral wisdom. He is passionate about building non-hierarchical structures for communal life, and once built and co-ran a cooperative bakery from the ground up. He is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, a fellow with SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva, and author of the cookbook Making the Table: Vegetarian Recipes to Nourish Community. He is a white Ashkenazi and Italian American, trans and queer, Southern Jew, and he loves the ocean.