Member Profile

Jerry Romero Jr. is a San Antonio–born death doula, end-of-life guide, and caretaker of memory. As a queer Latinx practitioner, Jerry’s work is rooted in ancestral practices, honoring death not as an ending but as a transition, a return, a homecoming. His calling to this work emerged through his own brushes with death and the teachings of his elders, who taught him that tending the dying is sacred community labor.

Jerry offers compassionate, culturally grounded end-of-life support for individuals and families, including bedside presence, vigil planning, and legacy work that helps loved ones tell their story in their own voice. His practice includes grief support and ritual design — rosaries, candles, prayer altars, limpias, and remembrance ceremonies that honor both the person and the lineage they come from. He also supports families navigating complicated goodbyes, especially in communities that have historically been ignored, medicalized, or silenced.

In addition to active bedside care, Jerry provides death education and accompaniment for those preparing for transition, including advance care conversation support, dignity-of-choice planning, and emotional and spiritual witnessing for the dying and the people who love them.

Jerry is a bilingual (English/Spanish) end-of-life doula and a doctoral fellow in Culture, Literacy, and Language at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where his work centers on care, dignity, and voice for marginalized communities. He works especially with Latino/Hispanic, working-class, queer, and trans families in San Antonio who deserve end-of-life care that is culturally rooted, gentle, and treated as sacred.

I welcome you, your loved one, and your family exactly as you are, and it would be my honor to walk beside you — with care, dignity, and gentleness — through this part of the journey.