Karalee Kothe received degrees in Psychology and Global and Multicultural Studies from Montana State University and worked in the Stress, Adversity, Resilience and Health Lab,  exploring the different responses to acute anxiety between emotion regulation and mindfulness coping strategies. She earned her M.A. in Psychology at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University, aiding with research in Near Death Experiences. She is currently a Ph.D. Clinical Health Psychology student at CU Denver, interested in exploring how clinical health populations can live meaningfully unhindered by the fear of death, understanding the lessons that death and dying teach us about how to live, and connecting to our shared sense of mortality as our greatest common ground.