Mindy fullilove biography

American clinical psychiatrist

Mindy Thompson Fullilove (born October 15, 1950) is an American social psychiatrist who focuses on the ways social and environmental factors affect the mental health of communities.^[1] She is currently a professor of Urban Policy and Health at The New School.^[2]

Trained at Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University, Fullilove has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities and studied the links between the environment and mental health.^[3] Her research examines the mental health effects of environmental processes such as violence, segregation, and urban renewal.^[4]

Early life

Fullilove grew up in Orange, N.J. Her father, Ernie Thompson, was a labor organizer in Jersey City and was the first black field organizer hired by the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union. Her mother, Maggie, was a white woman from Chippewa Lake, Ohio, who worked a