Ariel (they/them) is a senior rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Outside of JTS, they are a steering committee member for Svara's Trans Halakha Project, also serving as a member of the Teshuva Writing Collective, with whom they are preparing the publication of their second teshuvah. They are a certified shochet, having finished a two-year program of study in Jerusalem and the US. Ariel is a Midwestern native, coming from Ohio where they studied French and Comparative Religious Studies. They hope to receive their MA in Halakhah, one of their passions alongside theology.