Reimagine Virtual Candlelight Vigil
June 4, 2025 8pm EST
Let's honor our loved ones, hold space for grief, and reflect on the possibilities of transformation with writers Leslie Gray Streeter and Nora McInerny, known for their honesty and humor on a wide range of topics including grief, widowhood, and other hard stuff.
Reimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we've lost. This gathering features Leslie Gray Streeter and Nora McInerny. Both are award-winning writers, podcasters, and speakers. Both are widows. And both are very, very funny. Our other featured guest is grief counselor, mentor, and Reimagine community collaborator Henry Cameron-Allen.
Leslie Gray Streeter is an author, veteran journalist and speaker on everything from grief to pop culture, whose debut novel, “Family & Other Calamities” (Lake Union Publishing) will be released on June 1, 2025. Her hilarious and candid memoir “Black Widow,” published in 2020 by Little, Brown and Company, looks at widowhood through the prism of race, mixed marriage, and aging. She is the lifestyle columnist for the Baltimore Banner, and the co-host of the pop culture podcast “Fine Beats and Cheeses.” Leslie was the longtime entertainment and lifestyle columnist and writer for the Palm Beach Post. A native of Baltimore and a University of Maryland graduate, she and her work have been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Atlantic, the Today show, SiriusXM, O, The Oprah Magazine and more. She lives with her son Brooks in her hometown of Baltimore. She’s a slow runner, an amateur vegan cook and a true crime and “Law and Order” enthusiast. https://lesliegraystreeter.com/ FB IG Photo: Rissa Miller
Nora McInerny is the author of several funny books about sad things, and the host of Thanks for Asking, a call-in podcast about what matters to you. https://noraborealis.com/ FB IG
Rev. Rabbi Henry-Cameron Allen is an internationally certified grief counselor, universal life skills mentor, and ReImagine collaborator, devoted to transforming how we understand and navigate grief across the lifespan. Following the passing of his 13-year-old son Cameron to a rare brain cancer in 2008, he founded The Lost Travelers Club, a global sanctuary that reimagines grief and empowers purpose for Peregrines, a term he coined for parents who have outlived their children. He is the award-winning author of The Lost Traveler’s Field Guide: Navigating the Grief Journey Through a Quantum Lens, blending spiritual insight, science, and lived experience into practical tools for resilience and meaning-making. His signature initiative, SUPERGRIEF, reframes grief as a universal life skill that evolves over time. Through virtual workshops, mentorship, and public speaking, he honors grief as a lifelong relationship with love, memory, and the courage to embrace the mystery of being human. https://www.losttravelers.club/ FB IG
About Reimagine
Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together in the hopes of healing ourselves and the world. We specifically support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and – at our own pace – actively channeling life's biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth.
Ritual & Ceremony Talk, Panel, & Conversation Music & Sound Community Gathering Celebration & Remembrance
Track:
Wellness, LGBTQ+, Arts & Entertainment, Grief, Relationships, Collective Grief