Jay Michaelson has taught meditation for twenty years in Buddhist, Jewish, and secular contexts. He is currently an editor at the Ten Percent Happier meditation startup, as well a columnist for New York Magazine. Jay was a member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Board of Directors for six years, and is authorized to teach in the lineage of Ayya Khema by his teacher, Leigh Brasington. He is also an ordained rabbi.
Jay is a visiting fellow at the Center for LGBTQ Studies in Religion who worked as a professional LGBTQ activist for ten years. He holds a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University and a JD from Yale Law School.