Mark L. Joseph is the Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development and the founding director of NP3: Nurturing People. Power. Place., which conducts research and consulting projects in cities across the U.S. and Canada.

His research focus is mixed-income development as a strategy for promoting urban equity and inclusion. He is the co-author of the award-winning book, Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation, and co-editor of What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Mixed-Income Communities.

Joseph serves on the Governance Board of the Urban Affairs Association and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the journals, Cityscape, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Community Practice and Journal of Race and Ethnicity in the City.

Changing The Narrative is a compilation of eight short stories that reveal key insights and guidance about how to promote antiracism in practical ways. Through compelling characters and storylines with unexpected twists, Joseph provides a highly readable guidebook to practicing everyday antiracism. A fated plane flight, a mysterious pandemic that bestows superpowers, a revealing mother-daughter reunion, visionary teens who upend the status quo at their high school, an unexpectedly restorative journey to West Africa for two military veterans - Joseph takes the reader on a deeply moving experience of revelation and inspiration. Each story is followed by an author's reflection and discussion questions that help readers delve even deeper into the volume's themes.