She/Her/Hers

PAUSE

Alica Forneret (she/her) is an expert consultant, educator, and author dedicated to creating new spaces for people to explore personal grief and collective grieving. Her work focuses on how we can support each other through death-related loss and the grief sparked by (and before) end-of-life experiences. Fiercely committed to making sure that our conversations about grief, death, and dying go beyond hospital rooms and funeral homes, Alica is excited to contribute to how we handle grief in the workplace, in our personal relationships, publicly, and very specifically, the grieving process for People of Color and diverse identities. She is the Founder and Executive Director of PAUSE, a nonprofit focused on supporting Communities of Color through grief and end of life.

Alica consults on product development and systems change to help companies create resources and tools for grieving communities. She facilitates sessions focused on inclusive bereavement responses and how to address grief at work for companies including Google, Culture Amp, Nielsen, and The California Department of Education. And she has partnered on international events and projects with the likes of The Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation, Columbia University, and Lululemon. Alica's writing and work about grief, work, and race have been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, Huffington Post, GQ, and has been translated into Spanish, French, Tagalog, Polish, and Hmong via her partnership with Grief Coach.