ABOUT Amiyah king
Amiyah King is a death doula, hospice volunteer, researcher, and cultural worker whose work is shaped by lived experience with loss, transition, and legacy. With a professional background in criminal justice, government, and nonprofit spaces, she has witnessed firsthand how unaddressed grief, unresolved legacies, and systemic inequities can tear families and individuals apart long after a loss occurs.
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Amiyah is no stranger to reinvention. Having rebranded her own work multiple times across different seasons of life, she understands the grief that can accompany identity shifts, career endings, and the loss of versions of ourselves we once held. This lived experience informs her consulting work, where she supports individuals and organizations navigating intangible losses such as business closures, divorce, career transitions, burnout, and major life pivots, helping them find language, clarity, and direction for what comes next.
The Afterwords centers memorialization, storytelling, and legacy-building, creating space for people to put language to what comes after loss. This work is rooted in deep listening, cultural care, and the belief that how we honor endings shapes how we continue living.
Meet The Team
I created The Afterwords to honor my ancestors and loved ones whose stories were never fully told. So many of us carry the weight of silenced lives and unspoken truths, and this work was born from a desire to create space where those narratives can finally be named, held, and honored. The Afterwords ensures that their voices are not lost to time, but carried forward through memory, reflection, and care. It is an invitation to embrace grief, find healing in truth, and allow the words that come after loss to guide how we continue living.
-Amiyah King
Joseph King II
1977-2017
Melinda Marshall
1954-2003
