She received her Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, as well as rabbinic ordination from the Academy for Jewish Religion, California. She recently completed her manuscript, Narrative Dialectics: Rabbinic Theology and Ecology in Bavli Taanit, and is now working on a new book project: Fashioning Catastrophe: Gender, Sexuality, and Ecology in Talmudic Disaster Tales. A strong advocate for disability rights and women’s health, she co-authored A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities, published by the Hesperian Foundation and distributed to grassroots groups and health workers around the world.