Francesca Lynn Arnoldy is a community doula, a death literacy advocate, and a hospice volunteer. She is the author of Cultivating the Doula Heart (a guidebook), Map of Memory Lane (a picture book), and The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared (an interactive workbook).
Francesca is a published researcher with the Vermont Conversation Lab and was the original course developer of the University of Vermont's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Programs. A trusted thought-leader, Francesca has been featured in articles by the New York Times, Fast Company, Newsweek, The Verge, and AARP. She regularly presents on life-and-death topics with the hopes of encouraging people to support one another through times of intensity.