Rabbi Yair Walton is from Cincinnati Ohio and has worked with Jewish communities all over the world in Ukraine, Costa Rica, Argentina, and Lithuania, and of course Israel and in various capacities in education and programming. In Israel, he worked on Arab-Israeli coexistence projects as well as food justice in Israeli society. He has worked as a Jewish Educator in North Carolina, South Florida, and Los Angeles.

Rabbi Walton has worked for various Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform organizations helping people connect to the greater Jewish community. Deeply pluralistic and committed to the Jewish people, Rabbi Walton wants to empower others to be enthusiastic authors of their own Jewish stories. Rabbi Walton is interested in how relationships build Jewish communities and what the next normal of the Jewish community will look like in the future.