Author: CECE
[Article] Wildfire Displacement in the United States: A Qualitative Synthesis of the Social [...]
CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, and former CECE Post Doctoral Fellow, Julie A. González, recently published a paper about displacement after wildfires using the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires as a case. Abstract: Wildfire-driven displacement is an urgent and underexamined dimension of social vulnerability in the United States. This study synthesizes findings from a qualitative […]
DataCorps Graduate Fellowship Program Application is Now Open
Applications are now open for CECE’s DataCorps Graduate Fellowship Program for Summer of 2026. The fellowship provides graduate students with an opportunity to learn about activism and engagement centered around disaster response and recovery, as well as gain hands on experience in data collection and evaluation of disaster-related service corps programs and activism. To be eligible […]
Apocalyptic Optimist Episode 2: Why Solidarity Is So Hard — and How We Build It Anyway
In Episode 2 of the Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast, Dana talks with Dr. Rashawn Ray about the realities of building solidarity in a deeply divided moment. From his work with communities-of-color and police departments to learning from the Black Lives Matter movement, Dr. Ray breaks down what works, what doesn’t, and how people can show up as […]
Graduate Certificate in Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE²) Applications Now Open
The Graduate Certificate in Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE²) equips students with knowledge and preparation to address a growing set of challenges at the intersection of environmental protection, community resilience, and equity. Enhance your Master’s degree, skills, and visibility in the job market with one of these certificates in addition to your master’s degree. With careful course planning, it […]
[Co-Sponsored] Impact Preview Event: The Way of the Whale
A special preview screening of The Way of the Whale, followed by a conversation about the power of film to drive change. Director Franco Campos-Lopez and Producer Clate Korsant will speak with Maggie Burnette Stogner, Executive Director of the Center of Environmental Filmmaking at American University, about how storytelling can influence policy, mobilize communities, and inspire action. They will be joined […]
CECE Whitepaper No. 4: Understanding Community Response to Disaster: Results from Three AmeriCorps [...]
AmeriCorps members and volunteers engage in community response to disaster across the United States. How do they explain the skills they use, the motivations that urge them to respond, and their experiences with disaster? Across the three programs that we visited, participants reported drawing from their prior life experiences, whether personal or professional,to increase their […]
Apocalyptic Optimist Episode 1: Learning from the Free America Walkout
In the inaugural episode of the Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast, Dr. Dana R. Fisher talks with Rachel O’Leary Carmona and Tamika Middleton from the Women’s March about what we can learn from the Free America Walkout. You can watch all of the episodes here or access them via our YouTube Channel, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.
[Article] Resistance to Trump 2.0 Is Getting More Confrontational
CECE Director Dana R. Fisher recently wrote about how resistance has shifted during the second Trump administration. The article, published in The Guardian, outlines how Resistance 2.0 has become, and will continue to be, more confrontational. The full article can be found here.
The Global Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protest – a Repertoire of [...]
Join us as a we hear from Oscar Berglund present on his most recent paper “The Global Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protest – a Repertoire of Repression”.
Assessing Patterns of Changing Media Diets in the US
CECE conducted a survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,500 adults in the US through YouGov during the two weeks leading up to the 2025 election. The survey included a question about the public’s media diet, which was modeled on a question fielded by the Pew Research Center in March 2025. The tool below […]
[Article] Inside the Movement Challenging—and Disrupting—ICE
Data gathered by CECE Director Dana R. Fisher and Postdoctoral Fellow Arman Azedi was recently featured in an article in The Economist. The article provides a look inside the network of activists disrupting ICE across the country. The full article can be found here.
[Article] Lessons for Nature-Based Carbon Removal: Learning From the Politics of Environmental [...]
In his new paper, “Lessons for Nature-Based Carbon Removal: Learning From the Politics of Environmental Conservation”, School of International Service Assistant Professor, Scott Freeman discusses the legacy and lessons from the social impacts of environmental conservation is an essential consideration for nature-based carbon dioxide removal. You can read the full article here.