Mindy Thompson Fullilove Explained

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 as a union hall secretary. Fullilove's parents launched a successful campaign in Orange to desegregate local schools. She attended Unitarian Universalist Church as a child.^[5]

Education

Fullilove graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1971 with a BA in History. She received an MS in Nutrition from Columbia University in 1974 and an MD in Medicine from Columbia University in 1978. Fullilove received a Board Certification in Psychiatry in 1984.^[6] Additionally, she holds a certificate in Landscape Design from the New York Botanical Garden.^[7]

Career

Fullilove has been elected to the New York Psychiatric Society, the American College of Psychiatrists, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She is also a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Public Health Association. Fullilove was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies from 1983 until 1990.^[8] She joined the faculty at Columbia University in 1990 as an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health, becoming Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Sociomedical Sciences in 1999,^[9] a position she held until 2016 when she joined the New School faculty.^[10] She is a Professor of Urban Policy and Health at the Milano School of Management, Policy, and Environment at the New School.^[11] There, she has been working on a project entitled 400 Years of Inequality, which examines events that have shaped inequality in the United States, going as far back as 1619.^[12]

Other work

The CLIMB Project

In 2004, Fullilove helped start the CLIMB (City Life is Moving Bodies) Project,^[13] a community-based initiative in Upper Manhattan that promotes physical, social, and civic activity among northern Manhattan residents^[14] and is committed to ensuring parks are safe and accessible to all.^[15] The project has sparked millions of investments, including one of $30 million in 2016 dedicated to updating Highbridge Park.^[2]

University of Orange

In 2007, Fullilove and other community activists founded the University of Orange, a free popular education center located in her hometown, to promote civic engagement and active citizen participation in the community.^[16] She currently serves as the university's President of the Board of Directors.^[17]

Interdisciplinary Research Leaders

Fullilove is a member of one of the fifteen teams assembled by Interdisciplinary Research Leaders, a program led by the University of Minnesota to build healthier and more equitable communities.^[18] Her project, Making the Just City: An Examination of Organizing for Equity and Health in Shaw and Orange, is focused on helping people stay in neighborhoods that are facing the economic and social pressures of gentrification.^[19]

Honors and awards

• 2016 Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects^{[20] [21]}
• 2011 Purpose Prize Fellow^[22]
• 2005 Producer, “Urban Renewal Is People Removal,” Best Short Documentary, Trenton Film Festival^[23]
• 2004 Jeanne Spurlock Minority Fellowship Achievement Award of the American Psychiatric Association^[24]
• 2003 National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences^[25]
• 2002 Doctor of Humane Letters, Bank Street College, New York, NY^[26]
• 2000 Investigator Award
• 1999 Honorary Doctorate, Chatham College^[27]
• 1998–1999 Maurice Falk Fellow at the Center for Minority Health, U. Pittsburgh GSPH^[28]
• 1989 California Association of County Drug Program Administrators, Award for Drug Abuse Research^[29]
• 1979–1982 American Psychiatric Association–National Institute of Mental Health Minority Fellow

Publications

Books

• Main Street: How A City's Heart Connects Us All. New Village Press, 2020.^[30]
• Cooper, L.F., & Fullilove, From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2020.^[31]
• Thompson, E., & Fullilove, Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People's Power. New Village Press, New York, 2018.^[32]
• Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It. New Village Press, New York, 2016.^[33]
• Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-out Cities. New Village Press, 2013.^[34]
• Wallace, R., & Fullilove, M.T. Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents: Institutional Distributed Cognition, Racial Policy and Public Health in the United States. Springer Publishing, 2008.^[35]
• Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It. Random House, New York, 2004.
• The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1999.^[36]
• The Black Family: Mental Health Perspectives. Black Task Force, UCSF, CA., 1984.
• Thompson, E., & Fullilove, M.T. Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People's Power. Buildgebuilder Press, Newark, 1976.
• Thompson, Mindy "The National Negro Labor Council: A History" (Honors Thesis at Bryn Mawr College). The American Institute For Marxist Studies. San Jose, CA, 1978

Further reading

Articles about Fullilove's work by others

• Sullivan, Robert. “The Town Shrink.” The New York Times. 23 June 2015.^[37]
• Rosenblum, Charles. “Pittsburgh's Hill District Gets Key Role in Mindy Thompson Fullilove’s ‘Urban Alchemy.’” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 1 September 2013.^[38]
• “The French Connection.” Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 22 April 2013.^[39]

External links

• http://mainstreetnj.blogspot.com/
• http://www.rootshock.org/
• https://mindyfullilove.contently.com/
• http://www.hiketheheights.org/home

Notes and References

1. Web site: Blogger: User Profile: Mindy Thompson Fullilove. www.blogger.com. 2017-07-12.
2. Web site: Dr. Mindy Fullilove - ROOT SHOCK. www.rootshock.org. 2017-07-12.
3. Web site: Mindy Fullilove - Professor of Urban Policy and Health. www.newschool.edu. en. 2017-07-12.
4. Web site: New Village Press. www.newvillagepress.net. EN. 2017-07-12.
5. News: How I Learned to Love My Hometown. Fullilove. Mindy. YES! Magazine. 2017-07-12. en.
6. Web site: Biography - Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD. prfamerica.org. 2017-07-12.
7. Web site: Mindy Thompson Fullilove Center for Buildings, Infrastructure, and Public Spaces. 2021-07-23. cbips.engineering.columbia.edu.
8. Web site: The Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program at Columbia University. asp.cumc.columbia.edu. 2017-07-12.
9. News: Mindy T. Fullilove, MD. 2017-02-09. Columbia Psychiatry. 2017-07-12. en.
10. Web site: Mindy Fullilove - Professor of Urban Policy and Health. www.newschool.edu. 2017-07-12.
11. Web site: Mindy Fullilove Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research. www.investigatorawards.org. en. 2017-07-12.
12. Web site: Checking in With Professor Mindy Fullilove Tishman Environment and Design Center. blogs.newschool.edu. en-US. 2017-07-12.
13. Web site: Active Lifestyles Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. www.mailman.columbia.edu. en. 2017-07-12.
14. Web site: Organizers and Community Partners - Hike the Heights. sites.google.com. 2017-07-12.
15. Web site: Hike the Heights. www.hiketheheights.org. 2017-07-12.
16. Web site: Mission & Vision – University of Orange. www.universityoforange.org. en-US. 2017-07-12.
17. Web site: UofO Team – University of Orange. www.universityoforange.org. en-US. 2017-07-12.
18. Web site: Professor Mindy Fullilove Selected for New National Leadership Program to Build Culture of Health Tishman Environment and Design Center. blogs.newschool.edu. en-US. 2017-07-12.
19. News: Meet The Fellows - Interdisciplinary Research Leaders. Interdisciplinary Research Leaders. 2017-07-12. en-US.
20. Web site: Honorary Membership. www.aia.org. 2017-07-12.
21. News: AIA Names City Psychiatrist to its Board. 2012-10-15. Architect. 2017-07-12. en.
22. News: Mindy Thompson Fullilove - Encore.org. Encore.org. 2017-07-12. en-US.
23. Web site: Full text of "Town Topics (Princeton), Jun. 29, 2005". archive.org. 29 June 2005. en. 2017-07-12.
24. 2004-03-19. Nominations Invited For Minority Fellowship Achievement Award. Psychiatric News. 39. 6. 24. en. 10.1176/pn.39.6.0024a.
25. Web site: Associates National-Academies.org Where the Nation Turns for Independent, Expert Advice. www.nationalacademies.org. 2017-07-12.
26. Web site: Bank Street - Honorary Doctorate. www.bankstreet.edu. 2017-07-12.
27. Web site: Biographies – University of Orange. www.universityoforange.org. en-US. 2017-07-12.
28. Web site: To create and maintain healthy communities (The Colgate Scene, January 2000). www4.colgate.edu. 2017-07-12.
29. Web site: Dr. Mindy Fullilove, MD – New York, NY Psychiatry on Doximity. Doximity. en-US. 2017-07-12.
30. Web site: New & Recent – New Village Press.
31. Web site: From Enforcers to Guardians | Johns Hopkins University Press Books.
32. Web site: Homeboy Came to Orange. NYU Press. en-US. 2019-12-18.
33. Web site: Root Shock. NYU Press. en-US. 2020-06-01.
34. Web site: New Village Press. www.newvillagepress.net. EN. 2017-07-12.
35. Book: Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents: - Rodrick Wallace Springer. 2008. 10.1007/978-0-387-76765-9. en. Wallace. Rodrick. Fullilove. Mindy T.. 978-0-387-76764-2.
36. Web site: New Village Press. www.newvillagepress.net. EN. 2017-07-12.
37. News: The Town Shrink. Sullivan. Robert. 2015-06-23. The New York Times. 2017-07-12. en-US. 0362-4331.
38. News: Pittsburgh's Hill District gets key role in Mindy Thompson Fullilove's 'Urban Alchemy'. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 2017-07-12. en.
39. Web site: The French Connection Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. www.mailman.columbia.edu. en. 2017-07-12.