Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is a social psychiatrist and professor of urban policy and health at The New School. She completed her undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College, went to medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed psychiatric residency at New York Hospital-Westchster Division and Montefiore Hospital. Since 1986, she has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities. with a special interest in the relationship between the collapse of communities and decline in health. She has published over 100 scientific papers and eight books. Among her books are the highly-regarded Urban Restoration Trilogy, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities and Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All. She has received many awards for her work, including two honorary doctorates. She is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. In the Fall of 2024 she will deliver the Flexner Lectures at Bryn Mawr College based on her new research on the “Tao of K-drama.”