Margaux Fisher is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine (UCI). Her research explores how differently positioned people engage in the politics of health, particularly through research and education supporting health equity and environmental justice.

In previous research, Fisher produced a masters thesis and digital exhibit focused on disaster capitalism and the subversive potential of creativity in post-Katrina New Orleans.  

Fisher’s current work includes collaboration with the Louisiana Center for Health Equity, an organization with a daunting goal: to raise Louisiana’s health ranking from 49th in the United States to 40, by 2030. Their campaign is called LA30by40.  Fisher has worked with the Center’s director, Alma Stuart, to plan research that will support both her dissertation and the Center’s work. Fisher also ran a highly effective session at the Center’s annual conference focused on data resources that can be developed to characterize health inequity in different settings. The latter is part of Fisher’s ongoing research and archive focused on health equity infrastructure in Louisiana and California.  

Fisher is also helping develop 11th and 12th grade climate change and environmental justice curriculum for San Mateo County, California. 

Fisher has a MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Anthropology from Wheaton College (MA). 

Learn more about Margaux Fisher here.