The Voices &
Faces of La Mort
We are curious humans seeking wholeness, and we are waiting for you.
Lauren
Our CEO
Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives. She lives on an urban farm at the base of a mountain where she tends to her animals, raises her two children, and dances around bonfires on the full moon with friends while listening to Nick Cave.
Belle
Our CVO
Belle Augusta, co-founder of La Mort, is an Oregon-born, NYC-based storyteller, photographer, and multidimensional artist with a knack for digital systems, a passion for helping new voices and visionaries shape their presence in our collective digital spaces, and a drive to build new systems in society that contribute to (rather than deplete) the whole of humanity.
A co-founder of La Mort (and childhood best friend of Lauren), she has been dreaming of creating this space - where we might nurture one another, listen deeply, and co-create the yet-to-be-imagined worlds - since she was little. She is here to support seekers, helpers, artists, lovers, and change-makers in bringing into being their unique modes of service.
A 3/5 Splenic Projector and seasoned facilitator in business development, web design, branding, marketing, and creative direction, she spent years directing the communications department of a prestigious Waldorf school (where she adopted a threefold approach - head, heart, and hands - to her work in the world) before stepping fully into her creative calling. With over 20 years in the NYC art and design space, a decade building Web2 and Web3 ecosystems, and a photography career spanning portraiture, high fashion, and fine art, she brings a richness of experience to her work today. “She’s like my intuitive artsy friend, who can also code.”
Belle comes from a lineage of artists and works from the viewpoint that art - both the creation of and experience of - is essential to a healthy society. She is the mother to three children who she is raising in New York City, her favorite place in the world.
Our Digital Dreamweaver
Morgan
Morgan Everitt is a death doula and multidisciplinary artist based in the Pennsylvania countryside. Her twin passions—art and deathwork—have been constant threads throughout her life.
With a master’s degree in acting from NYU, Morgan built a career performing on and off Broadway while simultaneously working as a professional caregiver for the elderly. Her journey into deathwork began after the loss of her mother in 2016, sparking a profound calling to support others and help carry them through life's final journey.
Morgan’s training began at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and expanded to include programs with Deathwives, INELDA, and Quality of Life Care. She served as a volunteer on the palliative care floor at Mt. Sinai, earned her proficiency badge from NEDA, and is an active member of the Philly End of Life Doula Collective. She now runs her own private practice, Heron’s Flight: Morgan’s End of Life Care, serving the Bucks County, PA, community.
Morgan’s artistic practice complements her deathwork. Her goal is to encourage empathy and ease isolation through creation. Her internationally awarded short film, Morgan and the Medium, explores the afterlife while bringing to light the many complexities of grief. She continues to create art when she is not helping individuals and families at the end of life and has a dream of one day opening an Omega Home to provide even greater support to her area.
McKenzie
Our Co-Creator
McKenzie Victoria, co-creator at La Mort, is a project manager and artist-in-training who helps develop La Mort’s digital presence and community initiatives (like the Grief Cabaret). Her work, vision, and life, center on embracing the full spectrum of human experience, shaped by her life-long fascination with the human’s capacity to feel, create stories, and find beauty.
Sweet, silly, and shy in that order, she approaches everything as an observer first, taking it in from the outside before stepping in.
McKenzie is based in Bali, Indonesia, where she lives with her best friend (who also happens to be her mother) and her ginger cat. Together, they dream of having a "Practical Magic" house by the sea and becoming wise, gray-haired old ladies who carry stories, wisdom, and laughter in equal measure.
Sarah
Our Death Pals Director
Sarah is a self-proclaimed dirt child based in Denver, Colorado. When she is not fraternizing with bugs, feeding squirrels, or hugging trees, she is making greeting cards, painting crabs, writing letters, and contemplating the tiny threads of magic that bind the universe together. Her mission is to create the kinds of things that get nestled into shoebox portals to past lives, devoured by underbed voids, befriended by dust bunnies, and lost to time. Maybe to be found by an unsuspecting relative or historical adventurer who will casually raise an eyebrow in awe or wonder. Maybe to feed the beloved critters of detritus and decay. Maybe a secret third thing. Occasionally, she cosplays as a respectable businesswoman who definitely enjoys sitting in meetings that could have been emails.