Lauren Tuchman is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She is the rabbinic intern at T’ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. She is passionate about bringing disability rights and justice perspectives to bear on religious and spiritual communities out of a firmly held belief that people with disabilities have spiritual insights that are too often not brought to the larger table of spiritual and theological discourse. She has written and taught widely on the intersection of Judaism and disability justice, including the Summer Institute On Theology and Disability, the National Havurah Committee, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Adas Israel and has served as a scholar in residence at synagogues and other Jewish organizations around the country. She has been published in the Journal of Interreligious Studies, State of Formation, Jewschool, RitualWell and Hayidion: The Ravsak journal for dayschool educators.