Kevin C. Mitchell is a community activist, emcee, and poet. As Executive Director of the Empowerment Solidarity Network, he works to lift up Families of Color and other marginalized groups throughout Colorado Springs, Colorado. He emcees in the duo Kevin Mitchell and Lord Damage, as part of the hip-hop collective Company 8. His first book of poetry, W.F.A.F.N., is a portrait of an unapologetic Black male—a raw perspective of a modern-day “field negro” in American society.