Riv (they/them) is a queer artist, outdoor educator and Jewish ritualist. After seven years working with innovative Jewish organizations and film clients in the Bay Area, Riv now serves as Arts & Culture Producer at the Minnesota JCC (Dakota land). Their creative work is process-oriented and often participatory, reveling in the intersections of ancestors, interspecies relationship, justice, queerness and spirituality. Blending the roles of Educator, Priestess and Artist, Riv is dedicated to sharing the wisdom and the medicine of their Jewish ancestors through adaptive, accessible, and liberatory means.