by Bryan Wendell
To combat society’s most menacing ills, we’re going to need more doers than talkers.
We’re going to need people like Alana Fisher ’24. The sociology major from Baltimore says she chose Bucknell because she wants to go beyond just studying and talking about racism, police brutality and anti-Semitism. She wants to do something about those pernicious problems.
In high school, Fisher marched on the Baltimore streets, planned a teen summit focused on police reform and participated in a nine-month social justice fellowship named after U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Baltimore-born civil rights advocate who died last year.
As a Presidential Fellow at Bucknell, Fisher will embark on “a hands-on project that will help me learn how to help other people,” she says. After graduation, she hopes to work for a nonprofit advocacy group like the American Civil Liberties Union.
Fisher admits that fighting for equality isn’t a path toward fortune or fame. But that’s never been the goal.
“The money really doesn’t matter,” she says. “If you’re not happy doing something, it’s really just not worth doing.”
To combat society’s most menacing ills, we’re going to need more doers than talkers.
We’re going to need people like Alana Fisher ’24. The sociology major from Baltimore says she chose Bucknell because she wants to go beyond just studying and talking about racism, police brutality and anti-Semitism. She wants to do something about those pernicious problems.
In high school, Fisher marched on the Baltimore streets, planned a teen summit focused on police reform and participated in a nine-month social justice fellowship named after U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Baltimore-born civil rights advocate who died last year.
As a Presidential Fellow at Bucknell, Fisher will embark on “a hands-on project that will help me learn how to help other people,” she says. After graduation, she hopes to work for a nonprofit advocacy group like the American Civil Liberties Union.
Fisher admits that fighting for equality isn’t a path toward fortune or fame. But that’s never been the goal.
“The money really doesn’t matter,” she says. “If you’re not happy doing something, it’s really just not worth doing.”