Nicholas Ensley Mitchell wearing a suit jacket and blue paisley tie, sitting on a flight of concrete steps with a concrete pillar in the background

Nicholas Ensley Mitchell is an author, essayist, and assistant professor of curriculum studies.

His essays on topics ranging from education issues to the impact of bigotry on American popular and political culture have appeared in MSNBC, NBC Think, The Conversation, Blavity, The North Star with Shaun King, and The Good Men Project.

Nicholas Ensley Mitchell’s debut book, On Bigotry, is available in bookstores everywhere on July 10, 2025.