Joan Sadoff  

Joan Sadoff, (1938-2019), was, for most of her professional career, a clinical social worker in hospitals, schools, family agencies and community settings. On a national and international level, she lectured to academic, professional and community organizations on the subject of societal change in the family, on which she was a leading authority. Joan was often interviewed as an expert on these issues on television and participated in over 5,000 interviews including survivors of the Holocaust and their families. In 1992, after watching a PBS program about discimination against African Americans, Joan and her husband, Robert, followed the Freedom Trail through the deep south, talking with locals and eventually returning with a camera crew. The footage was eventually put together in a film titled Standing on my Sister’s Shoulders and it was the first of two documentaries about the American Civil Rights movement that Joan and Robert produced. (11/19)