Noah Rubin-Blose is a rabbinical student at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Rooted in Durham, NC, the homelands of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, he serves as student rabbi of the Makom 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 also the author of the cookbook Making the Table: Vegetarian Recipes to Nourish Community. When he’s not teaching or studying, you can probably find him walking by a river or cooking up something tasty in the kitchen.