Kitty Farmer has twenty-five years of experience in the management of careers and projects that embrace integrity, creativity and service. She has been highly instrumental in gaining successful careers for her author clients, all of whom embrace a spiritually holistic worldview in their practice of medicine and nursing. Her current involvement is with the healthcare and cultural rights of American Indians.

Kitty Farmer has degrees in psychology and education and a Master’s degree in child development. After teaching special education for several years, she returned to graduate school and extended studies in instructional media. After accepting an offer in publishing and running a small publishing company, she went on to sell her first book to a prominent New York publisher. Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, became both a New York Times bestseller, and the Oliver Stone film, JFK. Her experience in the publishing world led to a vast network of connections in the areas of spirituality and alternative medicine as well as extensive experience in information distribution to all forms of media. She oversaw the creation of hundreds of events with medical schools, nursing schools, hospitals and lay organizations dedicated to bringing spirituality back into the healthcare system. Currently Ms. Farmer is writing and producing a documentary film, titled, What’s in the Heart, that looks at the historical reasons and governmental policies that now place American Indians in the worst behavioral and medical health indicators of any minority in the country.

In 2000, Ms. Farmer met Harvard/Stanford trained Donald Warne, MD, MPH, Oglala Lakota. In late fall of 2006, she was invited by Dr. Warne to participate in the creation of the Medicine Wheel Foundation, an organization dedicated to eliminating the huge disparities in health and healthcare among American Indian people. The primary purpose of the Medicine Wheel Foundation is to raise money for scholarships for American Indian students to attend the American Indian School of Health Sciences (AISHS) a project being created by Dr. Warne in the metropolitan Phoenix area. The Medicine Wheel Foundation will also be raising money for a program called: PATH (Preservation and Advancement of Traditional Healing) that will offer stipends to traditional healers/medicine men so that they may work serving and training others without having to work in other jobs to support themselves. Medicine Wheels is another project that will see bicycles distributed and biking paths installed on reservations to help alleviate the increasing epidemic of diabetes amongst Indian youth.

Dr. Warne is currently the medical director of the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board, which oversees 17 tribes spanning four states. The Medicine Wheel Foundation will not be operational until Dr. Warne realizes his goals for this organization.

The purpose of the film, What’s In the Heart, is to create better understanding of the philosophy of healing and Seventh Generation decision-making within the Lakota Medicine Wheel. It highlights the creative, generative programs going on within American Indian tribes nationwide. It is a film that exposes the generational trauma inflicted upon American Indians and celebrates their triumph of culture, tradition and resiliency in the face of such ongoing trauma.


Ms. Farmer is former vice-president of the Well Care Foundation located in Phoenix, an organization whose mission statement is to provide poor, single, working mothers and their children with free alternative medicine and spiritual guidance.