My path into this work began at the tender age of twenty, when I was blessed with the gift of witnessing my mother’s death. My deathwork honors the both sacredness of death and the political power of mourning. Through Hafez Death Care, I offer culturally-rooted, anti-imperialist support for dying people and their loved ones throughout the dying process. I also provide grief tending for personal, collective, and ancestral grief, teaching that grief is both an emotional process and an act of resistance. I facilitate community grief events, offer one-on-one death midwifery and grief support, and host Halva for the Heart, a podcast exploring death and grief through a diasporic lens. My work is grounded in the belief that by caring for our Dying and tending to our grief in community, we strengthen our movements for justice and deepen our capacity for collective care.