Tashel Bordere is assistant professor of Human Development and Family Science and State Extension Specialist in Youth Development at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is past editor of The Forum (Association for Death Education Counseling), past board member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, and past Chair of the People of Color/Multicultural Committee. Bordere has conducted numerous workshops, consultations, trainings and published works relating to diversity and resilience through loss, including, with Darcy Harris, Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief. Her research focuses on adolescent adjustment to death and loss, with emphasis on assaultive violence, homicidal death, coping and grief among African American youth; she also studies New Orleans death rituals. Bordere developed SHED Grief Tools to educate and equip teachers with tools to support youth coping with death and non-death loss in the context of school settings.
