Our Founding Partners

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Holly Pruett is a Life-Cycle Celebrant, home funeral guide, and co-creator of the non-commercial pubic information site Oregon Funeral Resources & Education. Certified in Thanatology by the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Holly's death education work includes founding PDX Death Café  and the Death Talk Project, organizing a 500-person conference, hosting a three-year run of monthly movie nights, facilitating with Oregon Humanities’ Talking about Dying Conversation Program, and leading workshops on natural burial, family-led death care, and rituals of remembrance and bereavement for a range of audiences. A well-known consultant providing strategic services to local and national public interest organizations, Holly brings over 30 years of experience as a community and political organizer, nonprofit leader, and social change advocate. She has a Master's Degree in Applied Behavioral Science, and studies with Stephen Jenkinson's Orphan Wisdom School.
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Lee Webster is the Director of New Hampshire Funeral Resources, Education & Advocacy, President of the Green Burial Council, former President of the National Home Funeral Alliance, and a founding member of the Board of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, the NHPCO End-of-Life Doula Council, and the Conservation Burial Alliance. As a writer, researcher, web designer, hospice volunteer, home funeral guide, conservationist, and frequent speaker on the benefits of home funerals and green burial, her career and volunteer service spans years in public relations and development for nonprofits, conservation groups, health agencies, private secondary schools, colleges and universities. She is the author of several books on home funerals, green burial, and funeral reform, and has published articles and interviews that can be found in various magazines and blogs such as Natural Transitions, American Funeral Director, FuneralOne, Funeral Business Advisor, PhillyVoice, the New Yorker, Newsweek, and more.