About the Author

Adriene Jenik (she / they) is an artist, educator, and end-of-life doula who resides in the high desert of Southern California as well as Phoenix, Arizona. Jenik is a professor at the School of Art, Arizona State University, affiliate faculty in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Desert Humanities Center, and Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.
 
The Artists' Literacies Institute was established in 2018 in New York City by artist, teacher, and producer Andrew Freiband, to be a research agency for artists, putting artists' unique ways of knowing to use in building a just, sustainable, postcapitalist and postcolonial world. ALI is a partner within the NYC Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, from which The Grief Deck emerged.