Mychal Copeland

MYCHAL COPELAND is a Reconstructionist and Reform rabbi and certified yoga instructor, and the author of I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book and Struggling in Good Faith: LGBTQI Inclusion from 13 American Religious Perspectives.

Copeland received a Master of Theological Studies and secondary teaching credential from Harvard Divinity School in 1995 and a rabbinical degree from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2000. I Am the Tree of Life received the Sydney Taylor Honor, and in 2005 Copeland was recognized as an Exemplar of Excellence by Hillel’s International Center.

When she’s not writing, Copeland serves as rabbi at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, a Jewish LGBTQI community, and previously served for thirteen years as a university rabbi at UCLA and Hillel at Stanford University.

Mychal lives in San Francisco, California.

Mychal Copeland’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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