Dana R. Fisher’s work has been profiled in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, and Wired. She has appeared on ABC Nightline, CBS News, Morning Joe, PBS Newshour, CNN, and on various programs on NPR, the CBC, and the BBC.
She has published words in The American Prospect, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, The Nation, Business Insider, the Hill, Rolling Stone, and at the Brookings Institution. Her work is regularly featured in media outlets.
Recent selected media coverage in Backwards chronological order:
- How a straw-hatted anime pirate became a symbol of Gen Z dissent. The Financial Times. 12/24/2025.
- What the No Kings Day protest reveals about support for political violence in America. Brookings Institution. 11/25/2025.
- How to Save Ourselves from Climate Crisis with Dr Dana R. Fisher. Science Talk. 11/7/2025.
- UN expert: Decision-makers need to be influenced from outside. Aftonbladet. 10/24/2025.
- After Massive No Kings Protests, Trump Insults Americans and Asserts ‘Unquestioned Power’ to Deploy Troops Domestically. Democracy Docket. 10/20/2025.
- Your typical No Kings attendee in D.C., according to data. Axios. 10/20/2025.
- U.S. Protesters Increasingly Reject Political Violence, ‘No Kings’ Survey Finds. Scientific American. 10/20/2025.
- Inside DC’s Gray Resistance. The Washingtonian. 10/20/2025.
- ‘No Kings’ rallies expected to draw millions across US in protest against Trump. Reuters. 10/18/2025.
- Do protests like No Kings still matter? Here’s what experts say. San Francisco Chronicle. 10/17/2025.
- Is Gen Z Really Apathetic to Climate Chaos and Trump’s Fascist Creep? Counterpunch. 9/30/2025.
- Left-wing actors responsible for more attacks this year, report says. Washington Post. 9/25/2025.
- Is America Becoming More Violent? Foreign Policy. 9/17/2025.
- Dana Fisher on Apocalyptic Optimism. Climate Magic on KHSU. 9/14/2025.
- The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can? The New York Times Magazine. 9/5/2025.
- How Hurricane Katrina’s Horrors Created a Generation of Climate Activists. Teen Vogue. 8/28/2025.
- ‘Make Billionaires Pay’ March Will Bring Together Climate and Social Justice Movements. Inside Climate News. 8/18/2025.
- Ignoring Local Organizing Weakens the Climate Movement. Scientista Podcast. 8/14/2025.
- They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan. The New York Times. 7/30/2025.
- A new youth-led lawsuit is challenging Trump’s fossil fuel orders. Waging Nonviolence. 7/23/2025.
- Employees’ protests against Trump science policies spread to NSF. Science. 7/22/2025.
- How Trump 2.0 Protests Compare to His First Term. Newsweek. 7/4/2025.
- Dana R. Fisher on Turning Climate Despair into Activism. A Climate Change with Matt Matern. 6/19/2025.
- Older women front and center in ‘No Kings’ pro-democracy movement. The 19th. 6/18/2025.
- Building Collective Power Under a Repressive Trump Administration. Earth Island Journal. 6/11/2025.
- Where Is Gen Z, politically? Newsweek. 6/9/2025.
- So Much for Saving the Planet. Climate Careers Evaporate for the Class of 2025. The Nation. 5/29/2025.
- Embracing Apocalyptic Optimism: Dr. Dana Fisher on Climate Resilience. Climify Podcast. 5/29/2025
- Climate, Democracy, and the Power of Local Action. Let’s Talk Democracy Podcast. 5/28/2025.
- After disasters, AmeriCorps was everywhere. What happens when it’s gone? Grist. 5/15/2025
- What We Lose When America Loses AmeriCorps. Rolling Stone. 4/25/2025.
- The best books to nurture your apocalyptic optimism as our world warms and democracy struggles to survive. Shephard Books. 4/23/2025.
- On Earth Day 2025, Here’s How to Sustain Environmentalism Against All Odds. Sierra Magazine. 4/22/2025.
- Tesla’s Big Blue Blunder. Business Insider. 4/13/2025.
- What do climate protests actually achieve? More than you think. Grist. 4/11/2024.
- Tesla Takedowns and the Future of Electric Vehicles. Covering Climate Now, Power & Progress. 4/8/2025.
- Rising Acceptance of Political Violence Promises Nothing Good for the U.S. Scientific American. 3/27/2025.
- How far will governments go to stop climate protests? Living Planet Show on DW. 3/14/2025.
- Resistance 2.0 in Trump 2.0. Terra Verde and Earth Island Journal. 3/14/2025.
- Whiplash and Saving Ourselves. EcoShock Radio. 3/14/2025.
- A Science Protest Offers Insight into the Science of Protesting. Scientific American. 3/12/2025.
- Stand Up for Science rally drew a more anxious throng than 2017 counterpart. Science. 3/10/2025.
- Extreme Heat On The Job: Are stronger protections needed for workers in high temperatures? InvestigateTV. 3/10/2025.
- ‘Get in Dorks’: Stand Up for Science rallies spread to 32 U.S. cities. Stat News. 3/6/2025.
- “Resistance” Isn’t Enough for Trump 2.0 with Dr. Dana Fisher. Factually! with Adam Conover. 3/5/2025.
- How to be an apocalyptic optimist during scary times. CBC What on Earth? 2/14/2025.
- Young researchers mobilize to protest Trump administration’s science policies. STAT News. 2/13/2025
- Witnessing the Trumpocalypse, with Dana R. Fisher. Wicked Problems Podcast. 2/10/2025
- Mass court appeal puts UK climate activism clampdown in spotlight. Financial Times. 2/7/2025.
- What climate progress is possible now? Climate One Podcast. 1/31/2025.
- What we learned from the People’s March about attitudes toward political violence. Brookings Institution. 1/29/2025.
- Trump is just getting started. What are climate activists supposed to do? Grist. 1/27/2025
- Trump Moves Again to Exit the Paris Agreement. Here’s What That Means. Inside Climate News. 1/25/2025.
- On MLK Day 2025, It’s Never Been More Important for Nice White Liberals to Step Up. Drilled. 1/21/2025
- How resistance to Trump may look different in his second administration. Washington Post. 1/17/2025.
- She helped launch the Women’s March. This year she’s sitting out the fight. BBC. 1/17/2025.
- The American Climate Corps is over. What even was it? Grist. 1/15/2025.
- Why climate activists are becoming more radicalized (and why that’s not a bad thing). The Hill. 1/6/2025.
- A little less conversation, a little more action. Transform. Issue 18. January 2025.
- Climate Activists Uninspired by Biden-Harris are Energized for Trump. Newsweek. 12/23/2024.
- UNDP Gathers Climate Experts and Activists to Look Into Collective Action | Interview with Dana Fisher, American University. UN Brief. 12/15/2024.
- The Apocalyptic Optimist: Dana R. Fisher. Wicked Problems. 12/11/2024.
- Saving Ourselves: Confronting the Climate Crisis in an Age of Uncertainty. Global Warming Is Real. 12/10/2024.
- From the Ashes | Dana Fisher: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Planet Critical. 12/5/2024.
- The UN climate conference ended with a $300 billion a year pledge — disappointing many. Marketplace. 11/25/2024.
- Trump Is Already Helping Revive the College Climate Movement. Bloomberg. 11/23/2024.
- How people power can help prepare us for climate shocks. TEDxLondon Climate Curious Podcast. 11/21/2024.
- How to be an Apocalyptic Optimist. One News Page. 11/19/2024.
- America’s great white reckoning again. The Boston Globe. 11/19/2024.
- Introducing ‘anti-COP’: A climate summit for activists who are fed up. Grist. 11/15/2024.
- How to save the planet under Trump. The Ink. 11/14/2024.
- A ‘resistance’ raced to fight Trump’s first term. Will it rise again? Washington Post. 11/10/2024.
- Trump will have Republican Senate to push forward his agenda. Nikkei Asia. 11/7/2024.
- The Rise of the Climate Anti-Hero. NY Magazine. 11/4/2024.
- How does climate activism affect the climate debate? Climate Sense. 10/24/2024.
- Climate Activism with Dana R. Fisher. Looking Outside Podcast. 10/15/2024.
- Climate Conversations in Cars, Episode 3 with Dana R. Fisher. We Don’t Have Time. 10/15/2024.
- To Be the Climate Leader We Need, Harris Must Prioritize Phasing Out Fossil Fuels. The Globe Post. 9/20/2024.
- From Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Morning Star. 8/24/2024.
- Angry and Ready: Dana R. Fisher’s Climate Call to Action. Citizen’s Climate Lobby Radio Episode 98. 23 August 2024.
- These American Climate Corps Workers Are Paving a Just, Green Future. Atmos. 15 August 2024.
- Saving Ourselves Through Climate Action w/ Dana Fisher. The Majority Report with Sam Seder. 5 August 2024.
- Young climate advocates think Harris can do more for the environment than Biden, despite his big wins. NBC News. 2 August 2024.
- We Just Lived Through Two of the Hottest Days Ever. Does Anyone Care? Rolling Stone. 26 July 2024.
- How Harris’ Gaza stance could win back young climate voters. E&E News/Climatewire. 22 July 2024.
- Car camping and fighting wildfires: what are the new US climate jobs? The Guardian. 19 July 2024.
- More paint on Stonehenge, please! The power of climate activism. Everybody in the Pool Podcast. 11 July 2024.
- Why are climate activists so disruptive? Creators for Climate. 11 July 2024.
- Airports, Wall Street And Olympics In Crosshairs Of Climate Activists. Barrons (from AFP). 6 July 2024.
- What makes an effective protest? BBC Inside Science. 27 June 2024.
- The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes. Nature. 26 June 2024.
- Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action with Dana R Fisher. Extinction Rebellion Radio. 24 June 2024.
- Biden wants to save the climate by deploying young people. He’s not there yet. Hechinger Report. 11 June 2024.
- Consumer Attitudes: Solutions for the New Climate Era. Stylus. 3 June 2024.
- Cultivating Resilience and Practicing Apocalyptic Optimism: An Interview With Dana R. Fisher, Author of Saving Ourselves. Moms Clean Air Force. 5/24/2024.
- Saving Ourselves: Climate Action and Activism with Dana R. Fisher. Climate Confidential. 5/15/2024.
- Gaza college campus rallies face next challenge: Summer break. Reuters. 5/12/2024.
- Will Climate Shocks Lead to Climate Action? w/ Prof. Dana R. Fisher. Green & Red. 5/9/2024.
- What college protests could look like across the U.S. as summer begins. Washington Post. 5/3/2024.
- Climate Activists Court Controversy with Aggressive Tactics. CBS Mornings. 5/2/2024.
- Technology Won’t Stop the Climate Apocalypse with Dr. Dana Fisher – 259. Factually with Adam Conover. 5/1/2024.
- D.C. police just schooled a university on freedom of speech rights. Washington Post. 4/30/2024.
- ‘Outrageous’ climate activists get in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work? The Guardian. 4/25/2024.
- Climate Doom Is out. ‘Apocalyptic Optimism’ is In. The New York Times. 4/21/2024.
- Climate activists are all young — and other myths that need busting. Houston Chronicle. 4/19/2024.
- Dana R. Fisher Researching Activism: What Works? XRNow! Extinction Rebellion Radio and KPFK.org Pacifica Radio LA.
- Climate Grannies to Soup Throwers: Debunking 3 big myths about climate activism this Earth Month. Fast Company. 4/4/2024.
- Who are today’s climate activists? Dispelling 3 big myths for Earth Month. The Conversation.4/2/2024.
- Book review: ‘Saving Ourselves’ author says we can’t wait on global leaders to save the climate. Yale Climate Connections. 3/29/2024.
- Blocking Burning Man and Vandalizing Van Gogh: Climate Activists Are Done Playing Nice. Rolling Stone. 3/23/2024.
- Can We Really Save Ourselves? 1.5 Degree Podcast. 3/21/2024.
- Pivot Podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. 3/19/2024.
- MindShift: Should schools teach climate activism? KQED. 3/13/2024.
- Film studio from Oscar-winning director aims to stir up ‘populist anger’ over climate crisis. The Guardian. 3/9/2024.
- Q&A: Why Biden can’t tame the ‘radical flank’. E&E News Climatewire. 3/5/2024.
- United Nations Official Says State Repression of Environmental Defenders Threatens Democracy and Human Rights. Inside Climate News. 3/3/2024.
- The climate crisis is heating up activism. Here’s why. Fast Company. 3/1/2024.
- How Can the Climate Movement Build Real Power. The Climate Pod. 2/28/2024.
- Scientists under arrest: the researchers taking action over climate change. Nature. 2/21/2024.
- Turning Climate Shocks Into Action: 5 Keys To Saving Ourselves. Forbes. 2/16/2024.
- Why Have We Had So Many Broken Climate Promises? Irish Tech News. 2/18/2024.
- Saving Ourselves: The Imperative of Mass Mobilization for Climate Action. BNN Breaking News. 2/16/2024.
- How Does Throwing Soup Get Us to Climate Policy Changes? Teen Vogue. 2/14/2024.
- Three Apocalyptic Truths About Climate Change and the 2024 US Election. The Globe Post. 2/14/2024.
- A Realistic Path Forward for Climate Action. Next Big Idea Club. 2/13/2024.
- Taking power as individuals (and why individual climate action can’t save us). Brookings Institution. 2/13/2024.
- Dana R. Fisher on the Past, Present and Future of Climate Protest. Drilled Media. 2/13/2024.
- Busting myths and calls to action — a round-up of environment books. The Financial Times. 2/12/2024.
- Q&A: ‘Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action.’ DeSmog. 2/12/2024.
- How a Climate Group That Has Made Chaos Its Brand Got the White House’s Ear. Inside Climate News. 2/11/2024.
- What Joe Biden can learn from Andrew Cuomo on climate politics. E&E News, Climatewire. 2/9/2024.
- How can churches help build community for the climate movement? National Catholic Reporter. 2/8/2024.
- These are the climate grannies. They’ll do whatever it takes to protect their grandchildren. The 19th. 1/31/2024.
- Do socially disruptive climate protests actually work? Energy Monitor. 1/30/2024.
- With the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash. Inside Climate News. 1/28/2024.
- TikTok activists are getting the White House’s attention. Washington Post. 1/27/2024.
- The Climate Activists Fighting Off Cane-Wielding Country Club Members. Rolling Stone. 1/26/2024.
- Apocalyptic Optimism Could Be the Antidote for Climate Fatalism. TIME. 1/24/2024.
- No more going wobbly in climate fight, Trump supporters vow. Politico. 1/16/2024.
- A Rude Awakening with Sabrina Jacobs. 1/12/2024.
- Taking Action for the Climate. Interview on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. 1/9/2024.
- US Republicans at Dubai Climate Summit Have Accepted $11 Million in Fossil Fuel Donations. Desmog. 12/8/2023.
- What Impact Does the Climate Movement Still Have? DW. 11/30/2023.
- From Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Communicating Climate Change Podcast. 10/30/2023.
- The Tomato Soup “Controversy.” Drilled Media. 10/17/2023.
- Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protesters. New Republic. 10/12/23.
- Spotlight on Health & Climate Change: How do we make change? The Lancet Voice. 10/12/2023.
- ‘Franklin Roosevelt saved his life’: How a popular New Deal jobs program inspired Biden’s Climate Corps. Fast Company. 10/4/2023.
- How radical should you be when you’re trying to save the planet? Vox. 9/28/2023.
- Should you blow up a pipeline? Today, Explained. Vox Media. 9/26/2023.
- 20 arrests made during climate change protest outside Bank of America in Bryant Park. ABC Eyewitness News Mornings. 9/19/2023.
- Tens of thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding end to warming-causing fossil fuels. AP. 9/17/2023.
- Climate protesters disrupt the US Open. TMZLive. 9/8/2023.
- Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury. Associated Press. 8/28/23.
- Understanding the Growing Radical Flank of the Climate Movement as the World Burns. FixGov, Brookings Institution. 7/26/2023.
- Distraught? Get Disruptive. Canada’s National Observer. 7/21/2023.
- New Global Heat Records Broken. ABC News.7/6/2023.
- Get Up, Stand Up: What Actions Move the Needle? Climate One Podcast, 5/5/2023.
- Why Climate Activists Are Turning To Drastic Measures. NPR Science Friday. 4/28/2023.
- Climate protesters smear paint on case housing Degas sculpture in D.C. Washington Post. 4/27/2023.
- The surprising science of climate protests. BBC Future. 4/21/2023.
- The viral #StopWillow campaign shows how TikTokers are tackling climate change. Washington Post. 3/7/2023.
- Radical Climate Protests: do they help or harm the movement? Planet A, DWNews. 1/6/2023.
- Climate activists’ new, confrontational tactics aren’t popular. That’s kind of the point. Grist. 12/22/22.
- Throwing soup at the problem: are radical climate protests helping or hurting the cause? The Guardian. 11/12/22.
- Is eco-vandalism an effective way to raise awareness about climate change? Experts weigh in. ABC News, 11/11/22.
- Frustration Simmers Around the Edges of COP27, and May Boil Over Far From the Summit. Inside Climate News, 11/11/22.
- Fed up young climate activists: ‘Adults aren’t listening.’ Associated Press, 11/10/22.
- The 24-year-old trying to bring conservatives into the environmental movement. ABC Nightline, 11/9/22.
- From throwing soup to blocking traffic, what makes an effective climate protest? What on Earth Podcast, CBC News, 10/28/22.
- The debate over vandalizing art to fight for climate action, CBC The National, 10/24/22.
- Climate Conservatives, IMPACT x Nightline, Season 1, Episode 2, HULU, 10/13/22.
- Can Climate Protests Make a Difference? BBC World Service: The Climate Question. 10/10/22.
- A victory at whose expense? Climate activists grapple with political compromise. Washington Post. 8/10/2022.
- ‘Like a public shaming’: tire-deflators target carbon-spewing SUVs. The Guardian. 7/27/2022.
- Lessons Learned from the Post-George Floyd Protests. FixGov at Brookings Institution. 7/22/2022.
- How the Universal Language of Music Can Help Us Solve Our Planetary Problem. TIME Magazine. 6/24/2022.
- Where have all the Climate Activists Gone? Grist. 6/16/2022.
- It’s Time for Democrats to “Stop Clapping for Tinkerbell.” The Nation. 6/10/2022.
PIECES WRITTEN BY Dana R. Fisher:
Business Insider:
I’m a professor who studies protests and activism. Here’s why the George Floyd protests are different.
The George Floyd protests may become a defining moment in the future of American politics.
The US Postal Service protests were the perfect example of a new type of political activism. But the organizing tactic is about to face its biggest test yet.
America is Shattering in Two
The pro-Trump riots at the Capitol may be a startling preview of a new political reality
Americans can’t keep ignoring the dozens of states sneaking through laws that attack the right to protest and make it more dangerous to take to the streets
The Nation:
It’s Time for Democrats to “Stop Clapping for Tinkerbell.”
Politico:
Youth Climate Activists Once Opposed Joe Biden. Now, They Say They�ll Vote for Him.
Slate:
What History Tells Us About Protest in an Era of Vigilante Violence
TIME:
Apocalyptic Optimism Could Be the Antidote for Climate Fatalism
How the Universal Language of Music Can Help Us Solve Our Planetary Problem
Protests in the Trump Era Have Been Mostly Peaceful. Here’s How the 2020 Election Could Change That
Washington Post:
The original Women’s Marchers are still a political force.
The young Climate Strikers marching this week are all fired up and ready to vote.
The Youth Climate Summit starts July 12. It’s full of young activists trained in the anti-Trump movement.
This year’s Women’s Marchers weren’t focused on the leadership controversy. They were all about local and national political organizing.
Here’s why the protests against Kavanaugh (and the Trump administration) won’t go away.
Who came out in the brutal heat to the ‘Families Belong Together’ march? Here’s our data.
Here’s who actually attended March for Our Lives. (No, it wasn’t mostly young people
The American Prospect:
Door-Knocking in a Life-or-Death Campaign (with Lara Putnam)
Will Scientists Gear Up for Activism in the Age of Trump? (with Scott Frickel)
Huffington Post 11/9/16:
Waking Up in Trump’s America Watching the Ocean Rise
The Society Pages, 2/6/17:
This is What Democracy Looks Like
The Conversation:
4/2/24: Who are today’s climate activists? Dispelling 3 big myths for Earth Month.
5/31/17: The Demographics of the Resistance
SELECTED VIDEO INTERVIEWS/APPEARANCES (in backwards chronological order):
BookTV. 9/1/2024
Saving Ourselves – From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
CBS Mornings. 5/2/2024
Climate Activists Court Controversy with Aggressive Tactics.
Factually with Adam Conover, 5/1/2024.
Technology Won’t Stop the Climate Apocalypse with Dr. Dana Fisher
TMZLive, 9/8/23
Climate Protesters Disrupt US Open.
Planet A DW News, 1/6/23
Radical climate protests – do they help or harm the movement?
ABC News, 11/10/22
Is eco-vandalism an effective way to raise awareness about climate change? Experts weigh in.
ABC, Nightline 11/9/22
The 24-year-old trying to bring conservatives into the environmental movement
CBC, The National 10/13/22
The debate over vandalizing art to fight for climate action
IMPACT X NIGHTLINE, Hulu, 10/13/23
S1E2 Climate Conservatives
The Hill, 4/12/21
The Sustainability Imperative: Climate Diagnosis
CBS Baltimore WJZ, 6/10/20
Diversity In Crowd At George Floyd Protests Shows Growing Support For Change, UMD Professors Say
The Day, DW News, 12/11/19
Greta Thunberg: The Power of the Next Generation
Morning Joe, 11/1/19
American Resistance: Tracing the Rise of Resistance Groups Since Trump
PBS Newshour, 9/20/19
Youth Marches for Climate Action draw Millions Around the World
CNN New Day, 1/19/19
Women Lead the Way in Nationwide March
Morning Joe, 3/26/18
Breaking down the numbers of March for Our Lives
Morning Joe, 1/22/18
Data Tracking Resistance Shows Movement’s Growth
Thom Hartmann Program, 1/23/18
Why Resistance is More Important than Ever w/ Dana Fisher
ThinkProgress, 12/22/17
Looking Back on a Year of Resisting Trump
POTUS 2017 with Brian Lehrer, 8/31/17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WagD1uInFN4#t=18m34.5s
Fox 5NYC, 3/7/17
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/240149568-story
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/240142658-story
RADIO and PODCAST INTERVIEWS/APPEARANCES:
Pivot Podcast (3/19/2024):
Apple’s AI Plans, Real Estate Shake-up, and Guest Dana R. Fisher
The Climate Pod (2/28/2024):
How Can The Climate Movement Build Real Power? (w/ Dana Fisher)
Dana R Fisher 