The power of art is not lost on Mimi Chapman. She is a professor at the UNC School of Social Work who believes that art can have a profound impact on people’s ability to empathize. She also studies how art can help illuminate conscious and unconscious biases and affect how people treat one another.
Mimi grew up in San Antonio, Texas as an only child interested in writing. She majored in journalism in college but realized that while she liked storytelling, she wanted to take a more hands-on approach to helping others. Her career as a social worker has taken her from the pediatric emergency room at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore to classrooms in Siler City, North Carolina. Chapman’s current research focus is understanding the connection between art and the health care experiences of Latino adolescents.
Host Frank Stasio talks to Mimi Chapman about her life, work, and how the two things fit together. Chapman also blogs about the connection between the personal and professional at "Intersections: Reflections on the Personal and the Professional."
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