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CECE Receives Funds from the Freedom Together Foundation to Study the Movement to Protect Democracy
CECE is excited to announce a new grant from the Freedom Together Foundation, which will support our efforts to conduct non-partisan research about civic engagement and how to citizens are working to support a more informed and engaged democracy. Data about civic and political participation will be collected from the general public, along with groups and […]
[Recap] Data Centers and the Environment, Community, & Equity
Last Tuesday, The Center for Environment, Community, & Equity hosted a panel of guest speakers to discuss concerns surrounding data centers’ relationship with environment, community, and equity. They brought valuable perspectives on the subject by sharing their experiences organizing to stop the construction of data centers, platforming stories about communities coming together to fight data […]
CECE Announces Third Year of the Data Corps Graduate Fellowship Program
CECE is excited to announce a third year of the Data Corps Graduate Fellowship Program in the Summer of 2027. The fellowship provides graduate students with an opportunity to learn about civic engagement centered around community resilience and disaster response and recovery. During the 2-month program, students will gain hands on experience in data collection […]
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 […]
Call for Proposals for CECE Faculty Research Incubator Program
The competition for the 2026-27 Faculty Research Incubator Program is now open. CECE is delighted to invite interdisciplinary teams of scholars to submit short proposals for projects to be developed during the academic year. (MAXIMUM: 2 pages including references). By the end of the summer, teams are expected to have built out their projects, piloted the protocols, completed a write up for the […]
CECE Annual Report 2025-2026
CECE has released its third annual report. The report provides a summary of our accomplishments over the 2025-2026 academic year and sets a vision for the years to come. Please read the full report here:
Second Year of DataCorps Fellowship Concludes with Final Reports
The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project wrapped up its second summer of the DataCorps Fellowship Program. At the beginning of the summer, the DataCorps fellows identified individual topics they would like to research. Each fellow then designed one to two questions on their topics to be included in the project’s service corps member survey. In May and […]
Apocalyptic Optimist: Why the System Wants You Doomscrolling (And How to Take Back Your Power)
Political power isn’t what you think…The algorithms thrive on your anger, keeping you stuck in a cycle of doomscrolling, posting, and feeling utterly powerless. Comedian, writer, and labor activist Adam Conover (creator of Adam Ruins Everything and The G Word) knows we’ve been looking at political change all wrong. For more optimistic empowerment and stories, […]
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.
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 […]