Felicia Mitchell
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Phone: 602-496-1196
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411 N. Central Avenue, Suite 800 Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Mail code: 3920Campus: Dtphx
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Felicia M. Mitchell is a social work scholar whose research bridges environmental, structural, and epistemic justice. Her work examines how relationships to water, land, and institutions influence health, belonging, and equity, particularly for Black, Indigenous, and other racially marginalized and minoritized communities. Drawing on arts-based and narrative methods such as photovoice, she explores how lived experience and counter-storytelling can transform how social work understands and practices justice.
Dr. Mitchell serves as the Watts Endowed Coordinator of Indigenous Scholarship and & Special Advisor to the Dean. She is also a Faculty Affiliate with the Water Institute and co-leads the National Grand Challenge for Social Work - Creating Social Responses to a Changing Environment.
- Ph.D., University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare
- M.S.W., Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School
- B.S.W., University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare
Selected
Lechuga-Peña, S., Mitchell, F. M., Ignacio, M., Harty, J., & Billiot, S. (2024). Forging futures, building a pipeline: Testimonios from a collective of diverse MFP alums in the Southwest. Journal of Social Work Education, 61(sup1), S38-S50. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2024.2400064
Jackson, K. F., Ogbonnaya, I. N., Turnlund-Carver, A., Crudup, C., Mackey, C., & Mitchell, F. M. (2024). Anti-Blackness in schools of social work: A Black feminist polyethnography. Journal of Social Work Education, 60(3), 419–432. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2024.2338233
- Best Qualitative Article of Volume 60 in the Journal of Social Work Education
Jackson, K. F., Mitchell, F. M., Ogbonnaya, I., Mackey, C., Crudup, C., & Carver, A. T. (2022). Taking back the narrative: Gendered anti-Blackness in predominantly white schools of social work. Affilia, 37(4), 565-584. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099221099322
- 2022 Affilia Award for Distinguished Feminist Scholarship & Praxis in Social Work
Mitchell, F. M., Billiot, S., & Lechuga-Peña, S. (2020). Utilizing Photovoice to support Indigenous accounts of environmental change and injustice. Genealogy, 4(2), 51. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020051
Mitchell, F. M. (2018). Engaging in Indigenous CBPR within academia: A critical narrative. Affilia, 33(3), 379-394. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109918762570
- 2018 Affilia Award for Distinguished Feminist Scholarship & Praxis in Social Work
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Just |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Work |
| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Work |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Work |
| SWG 533 | Diversity/Oppression/Soc Work |
Selected
2026 Watts Faculty Award for "Advancing the ASU Charter and the Watts College Mission"
2025 Best Qualitative Article of Volume 60, Journal of Social Work Education
2024 Professor of Impact, SSW, Watts College, ASU
2022 Award for Distinguished Feminist Scholarship and Praxis in Social Work, Affilia
2018 Award for Distinguished Feminist Scholarship and Praxis in Social Work, Affilia
Special Issue Co-Editor (2024-2026), “Creating Social Responses to our Changing Environment: Environmental and Climate Justice in Social Work”, Journal of Community Practice
Selected
Network Co-lead, Grand Challenges for Social Work, National Action Council to "Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment" (2025-2028)
Co-Chair, Society for Social Work Research (SSWR), Research Cluster - Sustainable Development, Environmental and Climate Justice (2021-2025)