Full Name
Murillo Fernando AA
Job Title
Manager
Company
Humane Prison Hospice Project
Speaker Bio
Mr. Fernando Murillo is the Program Manager at the Humane Prison Hospice Project, where he trains incarcerated people to provide palliative and hospice care to their aging and dying peers. Before joining Humane, he was a Program Coordinator with UCSF AMEND, where he supported initiatives aimed at transforming correctional culture and reducing the harms of incarceration. Based in San Francisco, he previously worked as a Pastoral Care Support Worker in the only licensed prison hospice in California. His work is informed by 24 years of lived experience inside prison, where he was committed to improving quality of life for both staff and incarcerated individuals.