Trisha Arlin blogs her prayers, kavanot and drashot at triganza.blogspot.com where Trisha combines her interests in writing, performance and Jewish ritual in her Words of Prayer and Intention. She is in her first year of the rabbinic program at the pluralistic Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR). Besides her blog and ritualwell, her work can be found at opensiddur.org and at kolotchayeinu.org/http://www.kolotchayeinu.org/blessings_and_prayers. Trisha works as the Communications Coordinator at the unaffiliated progressive Brooklyn Jewish congregation, Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of our Lives. She is the co-author, along with Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, of the essay, "We Eat First", published in the book, THE SACRED TABLE: CREATING A JEWISH FOOD ETHIC (CCAR Press). In 2009-2010, Trisha was an Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute and from 2010 - 2012, she was in Aleph's two-year Davennen Leadership Training Institute (DLTI). Trisha received a BA in Theater from Antioch College in 1975 and an MFA in Film (Screenwriting) in 1997 from Columbia University School of the Arts. triganza.blogspot.com