Sheryl-Anne Sastow, emigrated to the United States from South Africa in 1978.  She earned her B.A. in Psychology in 1983 from the State University of New York at Albany, graduating summa cum laude. Afterseveral years in commercial real estate, she returned to her studies, receiving her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, in 1997, from Touro Law Center.

After litigating for ten years, in 2007, Sheryl-Anne opened her firm, Sastow Law & Mediation, focusing her practice on alternative dispute resolution, emphasizing divorce and related family law mediations and collaborative law practice.

Sheryl-Anne is an accredited mediator with the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation and a founding member of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators. She serves as a Neutral Court Evaluator for the Nassau County, New York Supreme Court in the guardianship field and as an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Nassau County District Court. Sheryl-Anne also serves on the panel of divorce mediators for the Nassau County Supreme Court Matrimonial Center and is on the matrimonial panel of mediators for Comprehensive Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc., (CAMS), the Nassau County Supreme Court Commercial Division, as well as on the mediator and arbitrator panel for the Nassau County Bar Association.