Webinar: Modern Loss - A Conversation with Rebecca Soffer

Rebecca Soffer

Rebecca is cofounder of Modern Loss, which offers creative, meaningful and encouraging content and community addressing the long arc of grief. She is also the author of the bestselling The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Your Resilience, which CBS's Gayle King named one of her two favorite books of 2022. Rebecca is also coauthor of the book Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome, which The Strategist named a best book on loss for a younger generation. Her writing has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, TIME, Glamour, and NBC. Rebecca is a Peabody Award-winning former producer for The Colbert Report and a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumna.

Allison Gilbert

Allison Gilbert is the critically-acclaimed author of Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive and co-author of Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman. Listen, World! is the first biography of Robinson, a single mother who survives the death of her only son and becomes the most-read woman in the country and highest-paid woman writer in the William Randolph Hearst media empire. Allison is a sought-after speaker and her work helps the bereaved all over the world. Her work extends to helping to build and launch the For Grief Speaker Bureau, bringing high-quality grief support to communities across the globe, including remote regions where no other support is readily available. A survivor of the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center, Allison is host of "Women Journalists of 9/11: Their Stories," a 20-part documentary series produced in collaboration with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City. She is also co-executive producer of the companion 2-hour film that featured, among many others, TODAY Show's Savannah Guthrie and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. Allison is the official narrator of the 9/11 Memorial Museum's historical exhibition audio tour, the only female journalist to be so honored. Allison is founder of Pub Day, a boutique literary consultancy that helps emerging and established writers realize their book publishing goals. Allison Gilbert proudly serves on the Advisory Board for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors and is a past Board Member for the National Alliance for Children’s Grief.