Dominique Brielle Fluker

Dominique Fluker shares her deeply personal journey of losing both of her parents at a relatively young age—her father to gun violence and her mother to brain cancer—and how those losses reshaped her life, identity, and sense of purpose. Speaking with honesty and care, Dominique explores the long arc of grief: the shock, the anger, the unanswered questions, and the quiet resilience required to keep going. She reflects on navigating public life and professional ambition while carrying private pain, and how grief can become a teacher rather than a life sentence. This talk offers compassion, validation, and strength to anyone processing loss, while opening space for conversations about violence, illness, legacy, and healing.

Attendees will leave with:

• A deeper understanding of the grief process after traumatic and compounded loss
• Language to name and normalize complex emotions such as anger, guilt, and unresolved questions

• Insight into navigating ambition, visibility, and responsibility while carrying private grief

• Tools for honoring loved ones while continuing to build a meaningful life and legacy

• A compassionate framework for healing that allows space for both sorrow and growth

• Greater awareness of how gun violence and serious illness shape families beyond the moment of loss

• Validation that grief has no timeline—and that purpose can coexist with pain