Mandy Benoualid

Mandy Benoualid is the President and co-founder of Keeper, and the co-founder and Editor of TalkDeath. Since 2013, Mandy has developed Keeper Memorials, a collaborative online memorial platform for families, which includes a suite of digital memorialization tools for deathcare professionals. Mandy works with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration on the Veterans Legacy Memorial project, which memorializes Millions of American Veterans. Her work extends to editing the consumer-focused death positive blog, TalkDeath.com, interviewing deathcare professionals for the web series #TalkDeath, as well as attending and speaking at Death Cafes, and funeral and cemetery conferences. Mandy first came across Becker’s The Denial of Death while writing about the stigma and fears surrounding death in the West. It has since become a permanent resident of her nightstand and continues to influence her work and outlook on life. Mandy has served on numerous nonprofit boards including Leave Out Violence, The International Memorialization Suppliers Association and the PBS Documentary, Speaking Grief.