As a queer radical care worker and death doula, Katherine (they/she) has worked closely with both elders and adults with disabilities. They were trained by a life deeply lived, and by the revolutionary Going with Grace, and she is a member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance. She has collaborated in Chicago for 20+ years with young people and artists as a facilitator and art teacher. Katherine now organizes, practices mutual aid and care with disability justice activists, care workers and sw collectives.

As a community member, elder queer, parent, artist, partner to two other queers and gardener, Katherine believes deeply in our humanity and everyone’s inherent beauty, value, joy, grief and autonomy. Through her work and relationships, she heralds the importance of love and vulnerable community connection in our fight for collective liberation and justice for all those oppressed. Death teaches us so much about living.