About this Event
Death Café Facilitation
A Death Café is a facilitated group conversation—often among strangers—designed to create a welcoming space to talk openly about death, dying, and the thoughts and feelings these topics evoke. Death Cafés are not therapy and do not follow an agenda, belief system, or prescribed outcome. Instead, they offer a structured yet open dialogue rooted in curiosity, reflection, and shared human experience.
About Jennifer
Jennifer Sanfilippo, MBA, is a trusted advisor, facilitator, and community leader with a distinguished background in government, finance, and public affairs. She previously served as Head of Corporate Responsibility for First Niagara Bank and as Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for New York Community Bank, advising CEOs and policymakers at the highest levels. Earlier, she built her career in politics as a strategist to members of Congress, governors, and mayors.
After the passing of her husband Jim in 2020, Jennifer shifted her focus to supporting individuals and families through profound life transitions. She is a certified executive coach (Columbia University) and end-of-life doula (University of Vermont), with advanced training in group facilitation (Center for Group Studies).
Today, Jennifer provides grief and transition coaching, end-of-life guidance, and community education through forums, Death Cafés, and hospice volunteer work. She brings empathy, clarity, and compassion to every conversation, believing deeply in the power of human connection to ease life’s hardest moments.
Our Last Walk Home
Love, Cancer, and the Agony of Letting Go
In January, 2020, Jennifer Sanfilippo's life was upended when her husband Jim was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. Thrust into the cancer battle against the backdrop of a roiling Covid-19 pandemic, Jim fought for his life while Jennifer fought to protect their family from the indignities of the healthcare complex.
Our Last Walk Home is an exploration of cancer treatment in the US, from diagnosis to death, through the lens of a widow's grief. This very personal, often painful, and surprisingly funny narrative challenges the big questions of mental health care for patients and families, patient centeredness in teaching hospitals, and our nations cultural refusal to create useful dialogue and practices that support individuals through death and grief. With a heartfelt and generous telling, Jennifer guides the reader through her journey of hope and loss.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bookery Manchester, 844 Elm Street, Manchester, United States
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