Isabella Carr is the founder of Deathfat Doula, specializing in end-of-life care, education, and advocacy for fat people. She began her doula training in 2020 and has completed more than 1200 hours of fieldwork with Death Doula LA and Compassion & Choices. She also served as the 2024–2025 Engagement Fellow at Compassion & Choices.

Isabella graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 2025, where she focused on a material and theological project titled Deathfat, which examines the intersections of fatness and subjectivity. Her work has been selected for presentation at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, the American Society on Aging Annual Conference, NEDA’s Doulapalooza, and several other conferences and outlets.

As a doula, her work prioritizes collaboration with fat individuals and organizations through resources, workshops, and direct care. Her offerings include pastoral and spiritual care, as well as advocacy around the medical obstacles fat people face throughout their lives, including medical discrimination; limited access to preventative care, testing, and screening; higher rates of in-hospital deaths; delayed hospice admissions; and increased funerary and disposition costs. Her tailored approach centers dignity, autonomy, and informed choice at the end of life. She has collaborated with Death Doula LA, Compassion & Choices, and the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance to bring fat people into focus in life and in death.

She is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and serves in-person clients in the Boston metro area. Originally from Portland, Oregon, with many years spent in Los Angeles, she also works with clients virtually. Before Harvard Divinity School, she studied fine art at New York University and religion at the University of Southern California, where she wrote her honors thesis on fat sexuality and spirituality. Her work continues to engage the wide and complex experiences of fat embodiment.