Kitty Farmer's education began with a degree 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. In recent years, Ms. Farmer resumed studies in filmmaking with award-winning producer and director, Jilann Spitzmiller (Homeland, Circle of Stores, Shakespeare Behind Bars) at the Santa Fe Community College, and is now involved in the writing and production of What's In the Heart Can’t Be Taken—Coming Back to Balance—Healing in the Four Directions.   

Ms. Farmer met Harvard/Stanford trained Donald Warne, MD, MPH, an Oglala Lakota Medicine Man, in 2000. 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 (Preserving Ancient Traditions of 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.

The purpose of the film, What's In the Heart Can’t Be Taken, 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 Native American tribes nationwide. It is a film that exposes the generational trauma inflicted upon American Indians and celebrates their triumph of culture and tradition in the face of such ongoing trauma. The proceeds from the film will go to the scholarship fund of the AISHS as well as other efforts of the Medicine Wheel Foundation.

Ms. Farmer is a development officer for the Medicine Wheel Foundation. She is also involved with the development and publishing of Dr. Warne’s personal story, as well as other books he plans on writing regarding health, healing and wholeness.

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.