Dana R. Fisher

She is the director of the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity and a professor in the School of International Service at American University.

She is also author of American Resistance: from the Women’s March to the Blue Wave (2019) and Activism Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America (2006).

She is a self-described climate apocalyptic optimist[1] and co-developed (with Andrew Jorgenson) the framework of AnthroShift to explain how social actors are reconfigured in the aftermath of widespread perceptions and experiences of risk.

Her Research has been featured in media outlets such as The Washington Post,[3] The Christian Science Monitor,[4][5] Chicago Tribune, USA Today, CBS News,[6] NPR,[7] the No Jargon podcast of the Scholars Strategy Network,[8] and in "The Collectors: Political Action," a documentary short by FiveThirtyEight and ESPN Films.

[9] Fisher was a contributing author on citizen engagement and civic activism for the 2021 Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.