The Lily House Family

Dawn Walsh

Executive Director

As Lily House co-founder and first board president, Dawn is now honored to serve as the inaugural Executive Director. She brings decades of experience in non-profit administration and leadership, most recently serving as Managing Director of the Summer Program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her interest in death and dying began with the death of her mother, Mary, when Dawn was a young adult. Over the years, this interest has grown into a calling. Dawn is an end-of-life doula, home funeral guide, green burial advocate, and death educator. It was her work as a hospice volunteer—witnessing the difference between those who had the resources and support to die at home and those who didn’t—that inspired the vision for The Lily House.