Laura Stavoe, M.Ed. is an educator and writer who lives in Boise. Over the last thirty years she has taught a variety of subjects to a wide range of ages, and in many interesting places including high schools, colleges, juvenile detention centers, hospitals, summer camps, and in the slot canyons of southern Utah.
Laura first came to the College of Western Idaho in 2009 as an English Instructor, and from 2013-2019 she was Assistant Dean and then Dean for the School of Arts and Humanities. She left CWI in 2019 to help care for her mom. Since that time, Laura has devoted many hours to learning and writing about end-of-life issues. She teaches workshops on writing about death and grief and is the author of Tending to Endings a blog that aims to build community and conversation around end-of-life matters.
Laura is currently working towards certification as an end-of-life doula through INELDA as well as a graduate degree in interreligious chaplaincy. She is very excited to also be back teaching at CWI. This semester Laura is teaching Psychosocial Aspects of Dying and Death in the Department of Social Sciences.