Rabbi May Ye (she/her) is a Chinese-American Jew from unceded Wabanaki land. A weaver of tradition and fashioner of new liturgy and ritual, she seeks to center and highlight the experiences of those who have been disenfranchised and marginalized from Judaism and Jewish spaces. A passionate activist, she explores how to decouple Judaism from Zionism and is an ardent supporter of Palestinian liberation. 

Rabbi May is a 2023 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC). She currently lives and works on unceded Duwamish and Coast Salish land and is the Associate Rabbi at Kadima Reconstructionist Community. Rabbi May is honored to sit on the national rabbinical council of Jewish Voice for Peace. She also volunteers as a movement chaplain.

From 2023-2024 Rabbi May worked with Mending Minyan as their inaugural rabbi. She was also the 2023-2024 Walter and June Keener Wink fellow with the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

As a rabbinical student, Rabbi May worked as a rabbinical intern at Tzedek Chicago and for Aurora Levins Morales on new liturgy that centers the voices of indigenous Jews and Jews of Color. She also served as a teacher for Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy, as a climate justice fellow with POWER, an interfaith social justice organization in Philadelphia, and as a chaplain at Yale New Haven Health.

Rabbi May is the founder of the Person of Color Havurah at Kol Tzedek Synagogue. In May 2022 she received the Tikkun Olam award from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College “for her inspiring & passionate Palestine Liberation rabbinate and for connecting our politics to the way that we pray.” She is also the 2023 recipient of the Rabbi Devora Bartnoff Prize for Spiritually Motivated Social Action.