Author: CECE
[Co-Sponsored] Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF)
On March 25, with the Center for Environmental Filmmaking, we will have a special DCEFF Impact Screening of a powerful new documentary, The Way of the Whale, by local filmmaker Franco Campos-Lopez. The film follows Xiye Bastidaand the intertwined destinies between gray whales and humans in Baja California, in a profound exploration of our world’s climate crisis. Stay tuned for more details!
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.
[Co-Sponsored] Youth and Climate Voices Scarcity, Conflict, and Challenges in the Arab Region
CECE Director Dana Fisher will be moderating a discussion on how climate activism can generate political leverage and material change in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She will be joined by activists Islam Zrelli, Nada Mohamed, Bisan Safi, and Mohammed Fathelrahman Adam. Full details and RSVP can be found here!
[Article] Public Participation in Tropical Conservation and Environmental Management Research
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Natalia C. Piland is lead author of a new paper in Biotropica titled, “Public participation in tropical conservation and environmental management research: Towards a locally grounded and reflexive practice.” This paper highlights research and practitioner experiences from the 18 co-authors and local histories, as well as results of bibliometric analyses from peer-reviewed literature, to […]
[Article] Drawing Systems of Stewardship to Guide Action and Reveal Critical Relationships of Care
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Natalia C. Piland is lead author of a new paper in Earth Stewardship titled, “Drawing systems of stewardship to guide action and reveal critical relationships of care.” This paper is a presentation of a tool she, with her co-authors, developed while working at the U.S. Forest Service. The tool is meant to lower activation […]
Welcome to the CECE Graduate Certificate’s New Cohort!
CECE is proud to announce the eight new additions to the Graduate Certificate for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE2). This marks the third cohort to join the program who will be trained with the knowledge and preparation to address a growing set of challenges at the intersection of environmental protection, community resilience, and equity. The […]