Founder/ EOL Doula/ Artist

Netarts, OR

My mission in life is to cultivate compassion and curiosity in myself and others.  My art practice led me to explore the meaning of legacy projects for members of my own family. Through the process I fell in love with how stories of family, community, and connection become a bridge to carry our relationships across generations. My legacy project acted as a celebration and inquisition of how we collect, hold, and preserve memories. This experience led me to becoming an educator and agent for end-of-life care. 

I believe that dying is not a medical experience, but rather a sacred and special time in our lives that should be treated with dignity and care. Working with North Coast EOL Collective, I aim to bring awareness to the end-of-life doula movement and the significance of advance care planning. I desire that everyone achieve comfort and peace at the end of life. Legacy work and life review are ways of reconciling fear and isolation that can arise while dying by leaning into the appreciation, intention, and interaction present in the process and to answer and ask what it means to exist collectively.

Funerary Artisans Collective