Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, DLAPA, Hon AIA, is a social psychiatrist and the Helen and Robert Fullilove Professor of Community Health at the University of Orange. For 40 years 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 nine books. Among her books are 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. Her ninth book, The Tao of K-drama: Wise Narratives for a Troubled World, is the first book in Oxford University Press’s new Narrative Medicine Series. She has received numerous awards for her work, including two honorary doctorates and honorary membership in the American Institute of Architects. She is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.