Amy A. Cunningham
Funeral Director and Experience Designer, Fitting Tribute Funeral Services, Editor of TheInspiredFuneral.com
- Role
- Owner at Fitting Tribute Funeral Services
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Amy A. Cunningham
Amy Cunningham is a New York State licensed funeral director particularly passionate about earth-friendly funeral planning and highly individualized end-of-life events. Before her own father\'s death in 2009, Amy was a magazine journalist and healthy living blogger. She regularly lectures on the greening of the 20 billion dollar funeral industry, and maintains a funeral planning blog at TheInspiredFuneral.com.
Experience
Owner
Fitting Tribute Funeral Services
Jan 2016 — Present · Brooklyn, NY, US
FITTING TRIBUTE FUNERAL SERVICES is a progressive, independently-owned funeral home that helps families in the New York Metropolitan area plan green burials, affordable cremations, home vigils and all manner of uplifting end-of-life services. Our company empowers families to craft the best possible tributes that pay homage to the memory, values, and beliefs of the deceased. Respectful, non-invasive care of the body is paramount. Creativity and compassion are part of the formula too. Our founder Amy Cunningham was profiled by The New York Times for bringing a back-to-basics approach back to the New York funeral, then was listed among the “Nine Most Innovative Funeral Professionals” in the country by FuneralOne, a leading voice for change in the funeral industry. Our firm believes that sustainable, artful, personalized funerals can give everyone in attendance an enlarged appreciation of the deceased, and even an altered view of the world we share. In short, we honor the dead, comfort the living, and celebrate the magnificence in everyone.
Education
American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service
Associates Degree
2010 — 2011
University of Virginia
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature
1973 — 1977
Skills
- Event Management
- Funeral Celebrant
- Editing
- Fundraising
- Marketing
- Cemeteries
- Trained in Hevra Kadisha by Rabbi Regina Sandler Phillips,
- Social Media
- Public Speaking
- Public Relations
- Funeral Homes
- Nonprofits
- Teaching
- Compassion
- Copy Editing
- Newsletters
- Blogging
- Social Networking
- Training
- Community Outreach
- Event Planning
- Meditation
- Media Relations
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