Mara June Pfeffer

Mara is a community organizer, educator, herbalist, artist, and budding birth + death doula who turned towards community death care & grief work after doing end of life care for their father. They reside on ancestral Anikituwagi lands in so called Asheville, North Carolina.Mara dreams of combining their experience and training to become a radical death studies scholar, an advocate and educator for community death care, home funerals, and green burials, and a facilitator for personal, collective, and climate grief. They want to create spaces of collective support, mourning, and healing, for those grappling with the challenges of birthing, living, and dying in troubled times.