Ideas worth spreading

The ecology of inequality

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Mindy Fullilove |

TEDxMidAtlantic 2017

• October 2017

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?"

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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Mindy Fullilove

Public Health Expert

Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is a professor of urban policy and health at The New School, having moved there in 2016 after 26 years at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University. Trained at Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University, she has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities and is interested in the links between the environment and mental health. Her research examines the mental health effects of environmental processes such as violence, segregation, and urban renewal.

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