Rebecca Soffer is cofounder of Modern Loss, a publication and community that has helped shift the cultural conversation around grief and life’s hardest chapters–with candor, humor, and hard-won resilience in place of platitudes. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, and NBC Think, and her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR, among others. She is also the bestselling author of The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Your Resilience, coauthor of Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief: Beginners Welcome, and writes the Modern Loss Substack newsletter. Rebecca also wrote and hosts the student training educational video series for UGrieve, an initiative by the Parmenter Foundation aiming to ensure grieving higher ed students have the resources, understanding, and community they need to thrive.

A Peabody Award-winning former producer for The Colbert Report and an alumna of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Rebecca is an internationally recognized speaker on loss, resilience, empathy, and community building, known for drawing people into an uncomfortable topic with warmth and wit. She has spoken at organizations including Amazon, AMD, Justworks, and the University of Pennsylvania. She has also been honored by Experience Camps; the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS); and Jewish Women International, which named her a 2025 Woman to Watch.