Maegan P. Brooks, PhD, is Associate 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 serves the bereaved as co-founder of the Diversity of Loss Arts-Based Grief Support Group at Willamette and 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 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 peer-reviewed journals, encyclopedias, edited collections, and books.