Caryn Aviv is the rabbinic and program director at Judaism Your Way in Denver, CO. She's a rabbi, recovering academic in sociology and Jewish studies, and (mostly) formerly anxious Jew. She creates spaces, stories, rituals, and practices that offer safety, healing, equity, compassion and justice for Jews and their loved ones and allies. As a professor and rabbi she's taught Jewish history and culture for two decades, and she now teaches the material in this book in workshops, at conferences, with congregations, and online in partnership with national Jewish organizations all over the US. She lives in Denver, CO.