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CECE Announces 2026 DataCorps Fellowship Cohort
CECE and the Workforce Development and the 4Rs project team are excited to announce the 2026 cohort of the DataCorps Fellowship Program. This cohort builds on the success of lasts years fellowhip and provides graduate students with an opportunity to learn about activism and engagement centered around disaster response and recovery, as well as gain […]
Celebrating Our Spring 2026 Graduates
CECE is pleased to celebrate the students completing the Graduate Certificate in Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE²) this spring. As they mark this milestone in May, we congratulate members of our second CECE² cohort, Hadley Ashford, Masha Kazantsev, Maria Adrila Rangel, Heather Stepp, Laurel Levin, and Michael Culbert from the School of International Service (SIS), […]
CECE Director joins civic cohort at TED2026
CECE Director Dana Fisher was invited to join the civic cohort /democracy delegation at TED2026 in Vancouver. During the week, she met with numerous civic leaders to discuss how their collective work to strengthen our democracy. She also participated in a dinner with former Vice President Al Gore.
[Event Recap] Finding Our Way Through Climate Uncertainty with Katharine K. Wilkinson
On April 14th, the School of International Service hosted a thoughtful conversation with Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson regarding her forthcoming book, Climate Wayfinding. Dr. Wilkinson shared a compassionate approach to navigating the “climate ache” of an uncertain future, suggesting that we find our way by shifting our orientation from a desire to “fix” the world […]
[Office of Sustainability Event] AU Sustainability Symposium
Join the Office of Sustainability and faculty from across American University on the 56th Earth Day for a robust program covering the breadth of sustainability work across the history of the United States. American University’s long commitment to sustainability and our own Airlie Farm’s role in the environmental movement are examples of how sustainability has played […]
CECE Cohort Building: D.C. Environmental Film Festival
On March 25, members of the Certificate of the Environment, Community & Equity (CECE2) cohort, together with faculty and staff of the Center for Environment, Community & Equity (CECE), came together on March 25 for a film screening hosted on campus as part of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival. The event, co-sponsored by CECE and […]
[Article] Stewardship Salons: Sharing biocultural approaches to foster many ways of knowing and [...]
CECE Research Assistant Professor, Natalia C. Piland, is one of seven co-authors of the recently published paper, “Stewardship Salons: Sharing biocultural approaches to foster many ways of knowing and caring for land,” in Earth Stewardship. The paper was led by USDA Northern Research Station Social Science Researcher Lindsay K. Campbell, and included a team of […]
No Kings 3 Turns Out Locals from Across the DMV
The No Kings 3 Day-of-Action mobilized millions of people across the country. Our team collected data through a field survey at a No Kings 3 demonstration in Washington, DC on 3/28/2026. Data were collected as people assembled to rally and march over the Frederick Douglass Bridge in Washington, DC (this event was expected to be […]
CECE Featured in NYT’s ‘No Kings 3’ Protest Coverage
CECE Director Dana R. Fisher was recently featured in two New York Times articles discussing her work related to the “No Kings” Protests. In “A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around,” Fisher shares her reflections on the protests and what more can be done. In “5 Takeaways From the ‘No Kings’ Rallies […]
[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 […]