Doneley Meris is a grief psychotherapist and bereavement counseling mentor and training consultant. Meris is the founder and executive director of HIV Arts Network. He was the director of bereavement services at the New York City LGBT Community Center and chair of both the HIV/AIDS and LGBT Committees at the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). Over the past four decades, Meris has trained and mentored graduate psychology and social work students as an adjunct faculty member at New York University and City University of New York’s Hunter College.
