Laura Musselman is the Director of Communications with the Human Prison Hospice Project. Following the deaths of both of her parents, Laura felt compelled to begin work in end-of-life care and left her career in higher education as a college philosophy instructor. Upon her departure from academia, she trained with the International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA) as an end-of-life doula and became a hospice volunteer for Hinds Hospice in Fresno, California, in 2018. At Hinds, she took on roles as a patient care volunteer, a home hospice volunteer, and a vigil volunteer; soon, she began training other volunteers to sit vigil for patients, which led to working with the Comfort Care volunteers at the Central California Women’s Facility located in Chowchilla, California.
As a former teacher of ethics, and as a human being, Laura believes deeply in the accessibility of compassionate end-of-life care, and that the right to die with dignity is an essential human right. As such, she is proud and grateful to serve the Humane Prison Hospice Project in this role.
