Associate Professor
Arizona State University
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Felicia M. Mitchell joined the School of Social Work at Arizona State University in August 2016. She received her master's degree from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and her doctorate from the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. Mitchell is committed to social justice for all oppressed and marginalized peoples and advocates for the advancement of environmental and health equity in communities of color. Her primary research interests focus on social determinants of health (which is inclusive of environmental determinants) and their impact on Indigenous health and well-being. In support of Social Work's Grand Challenge to Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment (http://envchange.org/), Mitchell's work seeks to promote public and policy responsiveness to the social and anthropological dimensions of environmental change. Mitchell uses Photovoice methodology infused with community-based research principles to partner with communities and organizations around group-identified health and ecological concerns. Mitchell's secondary line of scholarship focuses on advancing social work education through critical reflection and engagement that seeks to dismantle anti-Black sentiments and settler-colonial standards in academia. Using a critical lens, she examines teaching and curriculum standards to increase accurate representations of historically underrepresented populations in the classroom and advocates for the eradication of oppressive social work education and research practices.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM