Mindy Fullilove
Urban Sociologist | Healing Divided Communities
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Mindy Fullilove is a professor of urban policy and health at The New School. Her research explores how the loss of community bonds through urban renewal policies has contributed to mental illness, addiction, and violence.
Fullilove has authored several acclaimed books, including 'Root Shock' and 'Urban Alchemy', which outline strategies for rebuilding social connections in fragmented neighborhoods. With over 25 years of experience, her keynotes empower civic leaders and community groups to heal the rifts that divide their cities.
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The ecology of inequality
In 2018, to mark the 400th anniversary of the first recorded arrival of enslaved Africans to American shores, Mindy Fullilove worked with her class at the New School to create a timeline of inequality in the United States, incorporating the narratives of a range of marginalized groups. Their purpose was to visualize the ecology of inequality, situating its stories in time and space—in specific neighborhoods, laws, events, moments—and making the connections between them explicit in the hope of turning things around. "If we're in this ecology of inequality," she asks, "What do you think an ecology of equality would look like?"
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