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Dana R. Fisher

(she/her)
Director of the Center for Environment, Community & Equity and Professor in the School of International Service, American University

Dana R. Fisher is the Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) and a Professor in the School of International Service at American University. Her research focuses on questions related to democracy, civic engagement, activism, environmental stewardship and climate politics — most recently studying political elites' responses to climate change, how federal service corps programs are working to integrate climate into their efforts, and activism around climate, systemic racism, and the American Resistance. For more information visit https://danarfisher.com/

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Sociology and Director of Program for Society and the Environment, University of Maryland

Education

  • 2001 
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD / Sociology