The voices that shaped
Maybe Life Hurts

Co-founder, Prodeo Academy; public charter school network closing the opportunity gap in Minnesota.

Investigative journalist; co-author of Dear Jacob: A Mother’s Journey of Hope.

Psy.D., BC-DMT; integrates movement and body awareness into psychotherapeutic practice.

Accredited professional coach helping teams and families in business, nonprofit, and education.

Award-winning educator, organizational change; founder, OpenSource OD.

Cassandra’s college roommate and close friend; based in Concord, Massachusetts.

High school English teacher; based in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Saint John’s University ‘25; poet exploring science, faith, and adversity. From Nassau, Bahamas.

19th President of Kalamazoo College; founding director of the Cassandra Voss Center.

Multi-genre writer and musician based in the Sierra Nevada mountains; author’s novel ARROWS forthcoming.

Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota; co-founder of Braver Angels.

Award-winning journalist and style editor; writing has appeared in Teen Vogue and beyond.

Clinical psychologist and researcher; Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Community leader building bridges between faiths; based in Brussels, Belgium.

Sister of the Order of Saint Benedict, Saint Joseph, Minnesota.

Professor, therapist, and writer in Nashville; founded the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Lipscomb University.

Writer, speaker, and sober artist; author of ARROWS (Penguin Random House). Based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Doctoral student in theology at Fordham University; writes on regional religious history.

Certified CRAFT recovery coach; helps families navigate addiction and early recovery.

Mental health and couples therapist; owner of Growing Together Counseling & Healing, Hudson, Wisconsin.

Inaugural Resident Scholar, The Cassandra Voss Center. Beloved sister, friend, companion, and caretaker of Valeria Watkins.

“Notes app poet”; creator and co-founder of the Bearing It All podcast on grief and life.

Teaches English and Strategic Communication at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.

Teaches interpersonal and family communication at the University of St. Thomas; co-author with Carol Bruess.

Poet and assemblage artist based in New York City; M.A., Courtauld Institute of Art.

St. Norbert College ‘23; researcher and writer for this book project.

Physician practicing hospice care; based in Wisconsin.

Musician, minister, yoga teacher, and “Nana”; author of Honoring Loss, Growing Through Grief.

Creator and host of Tips From Dead People; lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Cassandra’s favorite art teacher; close friend of the Voss family; based in DePere, Wisconsin.

Helps individuals and organizations grow; background in human resources and organizational learning.

Former AmeriCorps member serving the Cassandra Voss Center; works in nonprofit community engagement.

St. Norbert College ‘21; works in community mental health in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Emmy-winning anchor/reporter, KARE-TV; author of And She Sparkled and Peace In, Peace Out.

Colorado-based writer and grief therapist; writes at Sated Soul on Substack.

Author and speaker; retired inaugural director, Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community, St. Olaf College.

Based in New England; devoted to functional fitness and mushroom foraging with her wife, Mia.

Yale ‘25; works on the Child Sex Trafficking Team at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies, St. Norbert College; author of Friendship and the Moral Life.

Retired advisor at Berea College; Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology. Sister of bell hooks.

Co-founder, Jacob Wetterling Resource Center; author of Dear Jacob: A Mother’s Journey of Hope.

Death educator and end-of-life doula; co-founder of Full Circle Care in Minneapolis.

Broadcast journalist, Minnesota Public Radio & Twin Cities PBS; founder, End in Mind Project.