Our Team
Alissa Vatter
Founder & CEO
Alissa Vatter is the Founder and CEO of Joyfully Grieving. She is the proud mom of her 3 sons and is beyond grateful for the gift of grace in the daily art of perfectly imperfect parenting. Her loss has fueled her hearts passion to create space for others to feel and do the hard work of learning to breathe and find meaning in the face of loss.
By day, she is a 1st grade distance learning teacher, preschool chauffeur and AVP, Title Sales Executive for national commercial services and builder services, to name a few roles. By night, she is a domestic wonder woman and loves diving headfirst, fully present, into the simplicity of loving on her family. She strives to not get lost in the busyness of life and be her absolute best at the business at hand.
In her spare time she enjoys hiking, riding endless miles on her bike that goes nowhere, getting lost in Lego or boy mom super hero adventures and dating her incredible husband.
Tiffany Mansfield
Vice President &; Chief Operating Officer
Tiffany Mansfield is mom extraordinaire to her 3 beautiful children. In between the parenting chaos, she is a successful entrepreneur that works diligently with clients to discover great domestic fits for the many needs in their homes and daily lives.
After losing both her parents at a young age, Tiffany’s empathy and compassion has driven her to live a life of happiness and strive to bring joy to all. This loss made her realize how precious and short life is.
She’s very outgoing and greatest passion is to help others.
Jacqui Tricco
Chief Financial Officer
Jacqui Tricco is a wife, mother, sister and daughter who loves deeply and is committed to creating a reality of beauty, peace and joy.
After experiencing her own loss, she has a great love and commitment to helping others heal their heart-ache, love bigger and ultimately find joy in the journey.
Jacqui currently serves as the Vice President of Finance & Operations for OneFuture Coachella Valley where she works to bring equity and opportunity to students across the valley.
In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, family board games, dancing and all things silly.
Becca Arrieta
Chief Donor Officer
Rebecca Arrieta, advocate of love, grace, and hope. She is a mom of two amazing boys, wife, and a believer of gratitude.
Her own journey has pushed her through loss, postpartum depression and every day struggles of juggling family, work, and self care; however, through gratitude, she can’t express enough, her love of the life she is living.
She is an Education Specialist who has focused on supporting children and families living with Autism. She works tirelessly for her students in the middle school setting and understands the importance of being a positive role model to the young, precious minds of our future generation.
Her passion to serve others pours over in all that she does and all who she encounters. She feels blessed to be here, walking this journey, with so many beautiful souls.
Nicole Trigg
Chief Creative Officer
Nicole Trigg is a wife to a Greek, strives to be the most intentional mother to three, and has a mission to live out her purpose in using Creation to help people feel seen, chosen, treasured, and loved. Through her journey of launching her company, Botanical Verbiage, she’s discovered a passion for helping others heal in deep hardships + grief. In creating her Language Arrangements using florals, botanicals, seeds, and scents with their Biblical + Victorian symbolisms, she’s able to share her gifting + faith with healing through Creation and creating a lasting comfort & memory for the Recipient.