Francesca Lynn Arnoldy

Francesca Lynn Arnoldy is a community doula & death literacy advocate. In addition to her birth and deathcare work, she is a published researcher with the Vermont Conversation Lab and a hospice volunteer. She is the author of "Cultivating the Doula Heart" (guidebook), "Map of Memory Lane" (picture book), "The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared" (workbook), and "My Death Journal" (lined notebook). Francesca frequently presents on life-and-death topics with hopes of encouraging people to support one another through times of intensity. She was the original developer of the University of Vermont's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Programs.

Francesca lives in rural Vermont with her loved ones in a most idyllic village. She can be found contemplating birth, death, and life with the doula heart on her website FrancescaLynnArnoldy.com.