How do we live life and approach death with “merciful awareness?” What does it mean to become aware of life and death’s “zero point?” Is there a connection between our dreams and the life we are living? In this session, Wilka Roig, a death doula, therapist, and global educator, reflects on how her own life has informed and shaped answers to these profound questions and how from her vantage point, a revolution is unfolding in how we interpret and understand the end of life.

Wilka Roig, MA, MFA was born and raised in Puerto Rico and has a BA in psychology and writing, and an MFA in photography from Cornell University, where she later taught as a lecturer. Roig is the founder and president of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation branch in Central México, co-founder of Red Latinoamericana de Acompañamiento en la Muerte y el Duelo, International/ BIPOC advisor of the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA), and Impact Producer in Latin America for the documentary The Last Ecstatic Days. She is also a dream worker, cellist, silversmith, and believes “the work of life is also the work of end of life.”