09/06/2025
"I dream of building spaces where Iranian and SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) diasporic communities can grieve in ways that feel whole, communal, and connected to ancestral tradition," shares Misha, our August INELDA Doula Profile. "I want to help normalize public grief, ritual-making, and collective care—especially in cultures impacted by exile, political violence, and ongoing colonial trauma."
Misha (she/he/they) is an Iranian-American death doula and grief tender whose work honors the sacredness of death and the political power of mourning. Their path into this calling began at the tender age of 20, when they were blessed with the gift of witnessing their mother’s death.
Today, through Hafez Death Care, Misha offers culturally rooted, anti-imperialist support for dying people and their loved ones before, during, and after the dying process. They also provide grief tending for personal, collective, and ancestral grief, teaching that grief is both an emotional process and an act of resistance. They facilitate community grief events, offer one-on-one death midwifery and grief support, and host Halva for the Heart, a podcast exploring death and grief through a diasporic lens.
Misha’s work is grounded in the belief that by caring for our Dying and tending to our grief in community, we strengthen our movements for justice and deepen our capacity for collective care. Misha is currently based in Seoul, South Korea, but is moving to Marin County, California, United States soon.
Read Misha's full doula profile here https://inelda.org/doula-profile-misha/ and find links to their website and Instagram page.
