Kate Mitchell
Cognoscenti contributor
Kate Mitchell is a doctoral student in the School of Public Health at Boston University where she focuses her work on maternal and newborn health and well-being. She is a fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. She is also a resident of Brookline, the mother of two small children and an enthusiastic kick scooter commuter.
Recently published
Nobody Bothered Me On My Push Scooter. Then E-Scooters Came To Brookline
Kate Mitchell is often shouted at when she's riding her push scooter, by people in Brookline who don't like the town's new electric scooters.
A Box For Every Baby: Massachusetts Might Help Infant Mortality By Following Finland
For 80 years, writes Kate Mitchell, the Finnish government has given new parents cardboard boxes that double as infant beds.