Dana R. Fisher

Dana R. Fisher is an American sociologist, professor of sociology, public speaker, and author. She is the director of the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity and a professor in the School of International Service at American University. Her areas of research and expertise are activism, democracy, the climate crisis, and environmental policy.

Her most recent book is ''Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action'' (2024). 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 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. Provided by Wikipedia