Tangela Sawyerr is an Assistant Director of Student Affairs and Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. With more than two decades of experience in social work, she has practiced in the areas of addiction, homelessness, and child protective services. Sawyerr’s scholarly interests examines the complexities of grief experienced by bereaved adult siblings. She is also committed to advocacy and social justice with underrepresented groups to advance grief equity in bereavement.
