Faith Mitchell

I am an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, affiliated with both the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the Health Policy Center. Over several decades, my career has bridged research, practice, and social and health policy at organizations that include Grantmakers In Health, the National Academies, U.S. Department of State, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and San Francisco Foundation.

I have written or edited numerous policy-related publications and am the author of Hoodoo Medicine, a groundbreaking study of Black folk medicine, The Book of Secrets, Part 1, a semi-factual supernatural thriller, and Emma’s Postcard Album, Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century, which interweaves postcards, history, and biography. I have a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.