I am a Death + Grief Guide, a knowledgeable project manager who leads from the heart. When death and grief enter our lives, they bring with them a mix of overwhelming logistics and complex emotions. I help ensure essential tasks are completed in alignment with your values, so that you can deepen your awareness and connection to the experience at hand. I empower you with information and choices, standing with one foot in the mundane and the other in the mystery. I hold space for both the logical and the ethereal. I get the forms filed and light the candle.

Prior to becoming a Death + Grief Guide, I was a Business Operations leader for various technology companies, startups, and non profits. I always partnered with a founder, CEO, executive team, or board of directors to clarify strategy, solve critical problems and ensure work was best aligned with our mission and values. I did a lot of “change management” to help organizations and employees understand and adapt to transition. Empathy and compassion have always been center to my work.

Over the past five years, I navigated much personal loss, collective grief for the world, and a growing awareness of mortality. Through it all, I found my grounding by slowing down, reconnecting with myself, and building a stronger relationship with nature. I practiced letting go and opening up to what was next through the natural ebbs and flows of the seasons.

And then a very dear family member was diagnosed with cancer. Navigating a terminal diagnosis in a death-phobic and grief-illiterate society is disorienting, scary, and isolating. The more I learned, the more I wanted to help others lessen their suffering during this meaningful phase of life. I could contribute my skills and compassion to help others sort through the messiness of dying in America while supporting them wrestle with the hard emotions that arise.

Called to this work, I completed a 9-month death midwifery training, Nine Keys, in January 2024. I am also currently a volunteer for End of Life Choices Oregon (EOLCOR), where I help individuals understand their options when facing a terminal diagnosis.

I believe everyone has a right to dying with dignity, that every death is sacred, and all grief is valid. My hope is to empower people with knowledge about death and grief, to alleviate overwhelm through planning and tackling the many to-dos, and to hold sacred space so that people can center, let themselves feel, and connect to what matters most to them.