Sarah Chavez

Sarah is a death practitioner, Death Positive activist, and writer working to examine the relationship between ritual, decolonization and death itself. She is the Executive Director of The Order of the Good Death, a founding member of the popular event series Death Salon, co-host of the Death in the Afternoon Podcast, and co-founder of feminist death site Death & the Maiden. In recent years Sarah has worked as a museum curator and served as the historian for a prominent cultural and historical landmark in Los Angeles. As a leader of the Death Positive movement, she is passionate about addressing the underlying issues that adversely effect marginalized communities’ experiences of death. Sarah advocates for others to reclaim experiences around death, dying. and grief by sharing history, education, and her own rituals and ideas for decolonizing death within her own Latinx community.