Ben Schmidt, MBIT, is a licensed funeral director and embalmer in two states and has been a funeral service educator for ten years at three mortuary colleges. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Northeast Texas Community College as well as an adjunct Teaching Specialist at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his teaching roles, he serves as the Community Engagement Coordinator at Frigid Fluid. He is also a textbook author, the host of two podcasts, co-host of the NFDA’s Funeral Face-Off Trivia, and an active member of the American Board of Funeral Service Education. Ben has presented both locally and internationally, including at The Cremation Association of North America's first embalming CE event and the Belgian Institute of Thanatopraxie’s 50th Anniversary.