Tamatha Thomas-Haase, MPA

Tamatha Thomas-Haase, MPA, was wife to a remarkable partner; mom to a quixotic creative; and a fierce public health practitioner, living with metastatic breast cancer. She knew the comfort provided to others by a warm, homemade meal, a note scribbled on a card or a sit on the front porch. She was told on more than one occasion that her emotions were too big and thus, she was unsupervisable.

In that legacy snapshot, can you feel how Tamatha lived?

Here's the thing: Tamatha is still (very much) alive, joining End Well from within her radical mission to be remembered for the whole damn thing: her pretty parts and her ugly bits, so that her legacy is really hers.

Professionally, Tamatha brings 30 years of public health experience facilitating communities of practice; writing tools and curricula; and leading meetings and conferences for state and federal agencies, as well as national nonprofits. Tamatha roots her work in connection — linking people to each other and to knowledge, in service of collective wellbeing. She also brings this spirit to Grand Exit, the life-affirming death wellness podcast she co-hosts with dear friend Chelsea Leader Gold, sharing the scenic route through the life-death-legacy continuum from ever-shifting vantage points.

Seven years after being diagnosed with Stage III-C triple negative inflammatory breast cancer, Tamatha is living, now metastatically, in a beautiful pile of juxtapositions. And you should know: she is still unsupervisable.