Elliot Kukla is a rabbi, author, and activist. He has been tending to grief, dying, and becoming (more) disabled since 2007, and he has been engaged in justice work since 1996. His practice of radical spiritual care brings together these two streams of expertise with his lived experience of being a trans, non-binary, disabled, anti-zionist Jew. Elliot currently offers individual and organizational spiritual care for grief and loss, in addition to speaking and writing for international audiences about the intersections of justice and care. They are the founder of the Collective Loss Adaptation Project (CLAP), a project of SVARA, which honors the disenfranchised and suffocated grief of disabled people.

Elliot’s essays have been featured in frequently in the New York Times, as well as Time Magazine, Teen Vogue, British Vogue, Them, and The LA Times. His essays are included in numerous anthologies and university syllabi and have been translated into Spanish, Korean, French, and Japanese. His activism is frequently featured in the media. In 2006, Elliot was the first openly transgender rabbi to be ordained by a seminary in Judaism (Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles). Elliot lives on Ohlone Land (aka Oakland, California) with their partner, kid, queer chosen family, a Boston Terrier, a cat named Turkey, and over a hundred house plants.