Ria Uzzielli

Ria Uzzielli is Shomer Collective’s Media and Communications Strategist. Formerly, she has supported the work of GYST founder Chanel Reynolds and her groundbreaking positive death enterprises, including her course materials and content creation.

The words marketing and death don’t usually belong in the same sentence; despite this, Ria is passionate about normalizing the conversations around death and dying, even for the audiences who don’t yet see death as inevitable. Ria holds a degree in English Literature and Psychology from the University of California, and writes about her own relationships to death and Judaism from time to time.

Through Shomer’s work, she strives to increase the accessibility of meaningful, compassionate resources to those faced with sudden (or even foreseen) grief. Whenever she isn’t talking her family members into the importance of password security, she’s cooking Judeo-Italian recipes or playing with her doodle.