About Jana Baldridge Vargas

Jana Baldridge Vargas is nationally recognized as a leader, author, and speaker in the area of death and loss. She holds a degree in the Social Science of Health and Medicine from Chapman University and is currently completing a Master's program in Education.

Jana's lifelong passion is helping others through the pain and loss each human being will eventually encounter through death and/or personal tragedy. She has focused her studies in the areas of death and loss, with an emphasis in hospice and long term care. Jana has worked directly in the fields of crisis response and intervention as well as crime victim assistance. She currently works as an educator with children who have severe cognitive disabilities.

Jana is also in high demand at numerous college and adult learning classes to speak on various Sociology and Death related issues. Jana's genuine warmth and charismatic style brings the discussion of death into a new perspective, one that embraces death and loss as a tool for living fully. Jana's articulate grace in discussing such a serious subject has made her a favored speaker and a personal advocate to friends, family, and anyone experiencing the loss of a loved one.

Jana truly lives the way she writes, passionately, honestly, and fully, with her husband of thirty years at their homes in southern California and Taos, New Mexico.