If you or your family are navigating an active diagnosis or loss, call (206) 617-1199. For emotional crisis, call or text 988 anytime.

Bainbridge Death Support

Not the reaper.

Stars and seashells are made of me.
I am made of seashells and stars.

A two-frame strip on the Seattle waterfront: Miranda Sita hidden behind two enormous bouquets of dahlias, then laughing with the flowers in her arms.

The Doula

Celebrating being alive, on the Seattle waterfront, Washington

Miranda Sita, founder of Bainbridge Death Support, smiling and looking down, her long hair falling past her shoulders.

Founder & Principal Producer

Miranda Sita

she/they · Bainbridge Island, Washington

I make records of people's lives.

Learn more at mirandasita.com

How I got here

Bainbridge Death Support is named the way it is on purpose.

Support, as in: someone shows up, figures out what's broken, and helps you through it. I come from documentary work and digital storytelling, the kind of craft that turns a life into something you can hold.

Bainbridge, as in: where I am. Not who this is for.

Before this

Creative Technologist & Death Doula

Media Production & Consulting
Editing, coding, and interview support for publishers, educators, and non-profits
Columbia Global Reports
2016–2020
Vox Creative, Vox Media
2014–2016

Training

Sacred Crossings Death Doula Intensive
Certification Training Program · NEDA certified, 2025
Columbia University, School of Professional Studies
MS, Information and Knowledge Strategy · 2018–2020
NYU Tandon
BS, Integrated Digital Media · 2015

The full record is at mirandasita.com.

I followed that work here.

Hands holding an oyster shell and driftwood found at low tide on the Salish Sea (Puget Sound).

low tide, the Salish Sea (Puget Sound)

Miranda holding an oyster shell up in front of her face on the beach.

beach finds

A photo-booth strip from Chicago: the three of them laughing in front of a mosaic portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama; and her small son alone on a wide floor, looking up at four enormous salvaged letters spelling HOPE.
Certified End-of-Life Doula
National End-of-Life Doula Alliance
Remote, and in person here
Based on Bainbridge Island, working wherever the story is
NEDA Member, National End-of-Life Doula Alliance
Miranda and her toddler sitting together on a driftwood log among beach grass.

motherhood is the most mind-bending experience. Levi, my absolute joy

I live on the south end of Bainbridge Island with my people and my animals. The water is close. The ferry comes and goes.

Motherhood out here is lonely in a way nobody warns you about, so I built somewhere to put it: a private circle for mothers between Seattle and the Olympics, on Suquamish land, where nobody uses their real name. If that is you, come and find us.

Bainbridge Island, Washington · Est. 2025

north side walks with Levi

Bainbridge Death Support calls home the ancestral lands of the Suquamish People (suq̀wabš, the People of Clear Salt Water) and their Coast Salish relatives, who have tended these shores and waters since time immemorial, and tend them still. It's God's country. I'm so fortunate to be here.

If this place has given you something too, consider giving back through the Suquamish Foundation, which supports the Tribe's cultural revival, education, and community.

Call (206) 617-1199, any time, any day. A receptionist will answer your questions and book a free 15-minute call with me.

Not ready to connect yet? Read the Journal or join my newsletter and get to know my work quietly, from a distance. I don't update it often on purpose.

Photographs by Austin Sita and Mike Schneider.

Founded by Miranda Sita, Bainbridge Island. she/they

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