Mitchell Esajas

Mitchell Esajas (1988, NL) is co-founder and chairman of New Urban Collective. He is a social entrepreneur involved in various community projects in the areas of education, employment, diversity and sustainability. One of the projects is the Black Archives, an archive in Amsterdam consisting of more than 3000 unique books, documents and artefacts about the black presence and resistance in the Netherlands. Mitchell studied Business Studies and Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He currently works part time as a study advisor in Anthropology and program manager of the masters Medical Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam.