Ms. Susan Barber is the director of the Prison Palliative Program for the Humane Prison Hospice Project. She has worked in end-of-life care as an educator and a hospice volunteer coordinator for more than 30 years. Ms. Barber began this work when friends died during San Francisco's AIDS epidemic and worked with Stephen & Ondrea Levine for more than a decade. She serves on the advisory boards of the California Coalition for Compassionate Care and the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation where she also curates an online community education program. Ms. Barber authored a training manual to be used in California correctional facilities and directed the training of 12 men at the California Medical Facility 20 women at the Central California Women's Facility during 2023.