Bruce Fisher

Bruce Fisher is a provocative, literate essayist with a resume in national politics and policy who has made the American Great Lakes region--the Rust Belt--his focus as a researcher, activist, and writer. He's a passionate participant, which has made him a valued colleague, as when he served on President-elect Obama's Urban Policy Advisory Committee, and also an outlier in his frequent media appearances on Huffington Post TV, National Public Radio, and local network affiliates. Fisher returned...See more

Bruce Fisher is a provocative, literate essayist with a resume in national politics and policy who has made the American Great Lakes region--the Rust Belt--his focus as a researcher, activist, and writer. He's a passionate participant, which has made him a valued colleague, as when he served on President-elect Obama's Urban Policy Advisory Committee, and also an outlier in his frequent media appearances on Huffington Post TV, National Public Radio, and local network affiliates. Fisher returned to writing after advising two presidential and numerous congressional campaigns, a Supreme Court nomination fight and many Washington policy battles, and more than a dozen years in public service. The chair of the Canadian Urban Institute called his 2012 essay collection Borderland: Essays from the US-Canadian Divide a must read for anybody concerned about the fate of Great Lakes cities on both sides of the 49th parallel, but the Buffalo News accused him of chest-thumping even while praising his innovative prose technique and calling the book a compelling argument for the importance of small places. See less