Annice Fisher
Antiracist Pedagogy Scholar
SOE Faculty
Degrees
Ed.LD, Harvard Graduate School of Education
M. Ed, Iowa State University
B.A., University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
Bio
As the Antiracist Pedagogy Scholar, Dr. Annice Fisher focuses on building the capacity of faculty and staff to teach and lead for antiracism, equity, and justice. This work includes leading antiracism learning communities, hosting capacity-building workshops, one-on-one coaching, mediations, antiracism audits, and advisory on antiracism related matters. Fisher designed the Exercising Conscious Leadership for the inaugural doctoral program.
She has more than 20 years of experience developing and leading equity and justice work across diverse sectors. From working with mayors to boards to superintendents to deans to state agencies, Fisher understands what it takes to build coalitions for change in complex systems.
In 2017, She founded Developing Capacity Coaching and later, their sister non-profit GiveSankofa, Inc. Collectively, the organizations focus on creating the conditions for all people, regardless of background, thriving freely throughout this planet. Most recently, Annice is known for her Conscious Leadership for Equity™ work which is currently being integrated across a variety of sectors including judicial justice reform, government, k-12 and higher education, philanthropy, corporate, non-profits, and Hollywood.
