Teleconference: End of Life Ceremonies During COVID-19

Anita Peters has been a Humanist Celebrant endorsed by The Humanist Society since 2014.  In 2017, she was certified by InSight Institute, the organization training funeral directors, as a Funeral Celebrant. She is a founding member and on the Steering Committee of The Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County, Connecticut. She brought the Death Cafe movement to Connecticut and regularly officiates at lifecycle events. She is the founder of the Humanist Celebration Project, which she introduced at the AHA 2019 conference at University of Miami (www.humanistcelebrationproject.org) She is a former board member of the Connecticut League of Women Voters. She describes her family as a cultural bouillabaisse:  “Within my immediate and extended family are Catholics, German Jewish refugees, Church of England and British Humanists, secular Turkish Muslims, Unitarians, agnostics, a Uruguayan atheist, a Sanskrit scholar.” She has a BA in Chinese Studies from Vassar College, an MIA from Columbia University and is a certified CT high school history teacher, specializing since 2010 in homebound instruction.