Announcement
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: This Meteorologist was Fired for Communicating Climate
When meteorologist Chris Gloninger linked extreme weather to climate change, he didn’t expect death threats—or orders to censor his science. Choosing integrity over the camera, Chris walked away from a 17-year television career. In this episode of The Apocalyptic Optimist, host Dr. Dana Fisher explores Chris’s journey from a silenced newsroom to the front lines […]
Apocalyptic Optimist: The Most Overlooked Climate Solution Isn’t Technological
In the latest episode of The Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast, best-selling climate writer and strategist, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, joins host Dana R. Fisher to unpack a critical, yet largely ignored, crisis in our advocacy networks: mass burnout and a loss of talent. Listen to the conversation and join us as we navigate the shift from climate […]
Apocalyptic Optimist: How to Break Through Big Oil’s Disinformation
Outarguing climate deniers with numbers and facts won’t work. Exposing the corporate puppet masters will. In the latest episode of The Apocalyptic Optimist, Harvard historian and legendary myth-buster Naomi Oreskes joins host Dana R. Fisher to discuss how we shatter corporate climate propaganda. The path forward does not live in arguing facts with bad-faith actors. […]
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 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 […]
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: Why Solidarity Is So Hard — and How We Build It Anyway
In this episode 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 […]
Apocalyptic Optimist: 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.