Sandra Joy, Ph.D., LCSW is an assistant professor of sociology at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. She received her Ph.D in sociology from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her M.S.W. from Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia. Her primary research areas are race/ethnic relations, social movement theory, and the area of death, dying and bereavement. She has worked as a mental health/substance abuse therapist and community activist for many years and is currently examining the bereavement process confronting families of death row inmates.