Maegan Parker Brooks, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Civic Communication & Media at Willamette University, where she teaches Death and Grief Communication, Autoethnography, and Artful Communication for Wellbeing courses. Brooks currently serves the bereaved as co-founder of the Diversity of Loss Arts-Based Grief Support Group at Willamette and has also served as a facilitator at the Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families. Her teaching, service, and research are informed by compassion-based and meaning reconstruction approaches to supporting both death and non-death losses. Certified in Arts-Assisted Grief Therapy, Brooks integrates expressive arts methodologies into her grief pedagogy and the grief groups she organizes. Brooks has published her scholarship in books, peer-reviewed journals, encyclopedias, edited collections, and popular press outlets.