Isabel Knight (she/her) is the Founder of The Death Designer, a company that provides end of life planning services, including funeral and vigil planning, digital account password management, advance directives, and assistance with reconciling fears of mortality. She takes a human-centered design approach, with a focus on promoting individual autonomy, sustainability, and home deathcare options. Her goal is to create a more humane and equitable end of life experience for all.

Morgan (she/her) serves as an End of Life Doula in Bucks County, Pa. Her practice, Heron’s Flight, was born out of her mother’s passing in 2016. With this deep personal connection to her work, Morgan is dedicated to providing a warm and supportive environment for the terminally ill and their caretakers. She is deeply passionate about easing the fear and anxiety that so often surrounds death. 
 

Morgan’s background lies in providing at-home caregiving and companionship to individuals of diverse ages, cognitive abilities, and physical capacities. She received her initial doula certification at the Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC, and then continued to fall in love with this work through volunteering on their palliative care floor. Morgan now holds three program certifications, is a member of The National End of Life Doula Association, and has completed many specialty courses on topics such as dementia care and green burial practices.

Eva is currently studying to be a death doula through Alua Arthur's Going With Grace program. Eva works with Decriminalize Nature to work towards legalization of psychedelic use in Philidelphia and intends to one day incorporate psychedelic assisted care into death care.

Ask Nicely is walking towards their death one step at a time. Crafting spaces to acknowledge and enhance transitions of all kinds. 

They began to articulate what is known as The Puzzlement Laboratory over a year ago.

The Puzzlement Laboratory investigates how our differences can be invitations to community through Hand-On, Participatory, Community Based Arts & Crafts Projects. One of the projects of the Puzzlement Laboratory is the Burial Ground Bouquets Project, which provides free or low-cost bouquets to the mourners at Friends Southwest Burial Ground.

Michelle Pauls is a theatre artist, educator and writer.  She created, wrote, directed and acted in the pandemic art mini-web series, SPEAKING OF FAMILY… For over 20 years she ran her own theatre company in Philadelphia (B. Someday/Walking Fish Theatre) where she produced mostly original work. She has worked as an actor mostly in the NY/PA region and won a Barrymore Award in 2010 from the Philadelphia Theatre Alliance. She is on faculty at Penn State Abington where she teaches acting and devising. She is a trained facilitator in Theatre of the Oppressed and recently received certification in Positive Psychology with the WholeBeing Institute. She is a founding member and lead singer with the rock band, The Poettes. Her grief work includes examining and writing about the loss of her marriage and her husband, as well as continuing work on the Passage Project–using theatre tools to help those on hospice and their families celebrate life and choose a death worth living for. Michelle is a member of the Dramatists Guild and co-facilitator of the PDC Happy Hour.

Hi, there! My name is Mel Srolovitz (she/her) and I am the owner of Holistic Caring Death Doula Services, LLC. I am an INELDA-trained death doula and board-certified music therapist and have been working in hospice care for over eight years. Throughout the years, I have gained extensive experience working with individuals and their loved ones facing serious and terminal illnesses. I am also a hospice and end-of-life educator, who is passionate about not only serving folks within their sacred spaces and supporting their total selves through their serious illness and end-of-life journeys, but also in walking alongside all individuals who seek to learn more about end-of-life choices and care.

I became passionate about end-of-life and serious illness care after personally experiencing the lack of holistic support provided to a dying loved one, and have made it my mission to encourage and support individuals in expressing their desired needs, maintaining their sense of dignity at end-of-life, and supporting individuals’ support systems through their grieving processes, all within the realm of compassionate, person-centered care.

To learn more about Holistic Caring Death Doula Services, LLC please visit: https://www.holisticcaringdeathdoula.com/

I partner with individuals to provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support at the end of life. I also serve loved ones during the end of life process, through early grief and bereavement. 

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I serve as a companion to people as they explore the meaning of their lives and their legacy. I’m here to help individuals consider their hopes and wishes for their death, educate about the process, listen deeply, facilitate legacy projects, assist with vigil planning, and be a reassuring presence.

Rebecca Maury MD FACP (she/her) is board certified Internist and Hospice/Palliative Care physician with over 20 years of clinical experience. In the years before med school, she studied with an array of leaders in the alternative medicine movement while attending programs for therapeutic bodywork and clinical herbalism in New Mexico. She is currently enrolled in a certificate program for psychedelic-assisted therapies and research at California Institute for Integral Studies, and has completed MDMA-assisted therapist training through Naropa University. Dr. Maury trained as a death doula and home funeral guide with Sacred Crossings and its founder, Olivia Barham, in Los Angeles, CA. 

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She has maintained a daily meditation practice for 15 years and is a student of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and his senior teacher, Marcy Vaughn. She is committed to the anti-racist practice of Somatic Abolitionism, which was created by her teacher, best selling author and trauma therapist Resmaa Menakem. 

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She is the founder of Herbal Care Rx, which provides low-cost medical cannabis cards and consultations for cannabis based symptom management. 

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She is also the founder of Threshold Collective, where she provides clients with support in medical decision making, medical systems navigation, end of life planning, direct support to the dying, home vigils, grief support, and celebrations of life.

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Kat is an MSW candidate at Temple University. She also works as a Research Coordinator at the Temple University Collaborative, a national research and training center focused on supporting meaningful community participation for individuals who experience serious mental health conditions.

Dev Needelman is a horticulturist with years of experience in land stewardship through farming, orchard and tree care, gardening, and food systems organizing. Their Jewish, Queer and Non-Binary identities guide them in the importance of community and the art of contemplation. They are passionate about honoring and celebrating the complexities of the natural world and working to create change in how humans tread on the planet. They have been waist deep in a beaver meadow, knee deep in steaming compost, elbow deep in cucumber seeds, and heart deep in the messiness of life. They are fervently passionate about innovative environmental restoration, broadening access to food, and giving into the depths of change.