Xava De Cordova (she/her) is a Jewish educator, Talmudic scholar, future rabbi, neo-xasid, and writer living in Providence, Rhode Island. She cut her teeth as a teacher founding Beit Midrash Behind Bars, an organization that created Jewish study opportunities for incarcerated people inside Washington State prisons. She co-founded Shel Maala, an online-first queer yeshiva and co-hosts the world's first Queer Talmud podcast Xai, how are you?