PhD The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Doctorate of Philosophy, Social Welfare, received September 2013
Dissertation: What does and does not contribute to the stabilization of young women transitioning from the Juvenile Justice System? Mixed methods linear regression analysis through data mining: Predictive factors of community stabilization.
Committee Chair and Mentor: Dr. Miriam Abramovitz
Committee Members: Dr. SJ Dodd & Dr. Willie Tolliver
MSW San Francisco State University
Masters in Social Work May 2001
Thesis: Meta-analysis of outcome evaluations- Batterer Treatment Programs
University of California at Berkeley
Clinical License 2001
Completed coursework for California clinical licensing requirements: Human Sexuality and Child Abuse Reporting
University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addam’s
School of Social Work
Research Project: Chicago Public Housing- Part of team to study redevelopment of Chicago public housing, focusing on the “Mother’s Consent Decree” that transformed conditions at Henry Horner Homes
Evergreen State College
Bachelors in Social Work May 1995
Thesis: Sexual Assault on College Campuses
Research culminated into my founding of the Rape Response Coalition and Office of Sexual Assault prevention
Dr. Nina Rose Fischer (she/her) is a tenured Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is an Activist, Scholar, and Creative. She is a leader in developing innovative, multi-media praxis-based, social justice oriented pedagogy and research projects. She develops innovative courses about social justice and institutionalized oppression and was appointed as a Social Justice Teaching Fellow. She is a member of the Gender Studies Advisory Board and is on the faculty of the Graduate Center's Social Welfare PhD program. Dr. Fischer has over 30 years of experience in harm reduction and youth justice as an organizer, therapist, creative, administrator/program developer, policy maker and researcher. She is currently Principal Investigator for three original research projects 1) youth and police relations; 2) substance use harm reduction with teens; and 3) arrest diversion for youth with gun charges. She published a book called The Case for Youth Police Initiative: Interdependent Fates and the Power of Peace an ethnographic exploration of youth/police relations; and recommendations for how law enforcement can benefit from social welfare infrastructure. She is Executive Producer of a documentary series in progress based on her book. She has published several articles in both peer reviewed journals and popular periodicals. Critical race, class and gender analyses are central to Dr. Fischer’s work.
Teaching:
Associate Tenured Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, NY. in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Graduate Center Social Welfare PhD
I develop original syllabi for the classes I teach:
Upcoming:
Qualitative Research 1 (SW PhD 77000)
Gender and Justice (205)
Gender Capstone for majors (401)
Vera Social Justice seminar (390/391)
Gender, Justice and Sexuality (334)
The Substance of Substance Use Deconstructing the War on Drugs: Policy Then and Now (321)
Critical Community Policing (120)
Alternate Worlds: Justice Philosophies (134)
Juvenile Justice Then and Now (120)
Stereotypes (122)
Justice Who’s In and Who’s Out: Deconstructing the War on Terror (100)
English: Advocate New York, Writing for Justice (201)
Global Humanitarianism (336)
I developed new courses approved by CUNY State governance and teach:
Gender and Sexuality in a Global Context for asynchronous virtual learning (334)
Experiential Learning in Social Justice (277)
Colorism: A Global Perspective (215)
White Supremacy: Constructions of Race and Institutionalized Racism (226)
Sub-Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, NY. Currently teaching and co-administrating Vera Fellows Program, Learning from the Past: Community Policing (120) and English (201) in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies: Chair Dr. Richard Haw, 2015.
Sub-Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, NY. Teaching and co-administrating Vera Fellows Program, Justice Who’s In and Who’s Out (100), The Substance of Substance Use Drug Policy Then and Now (321) in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies: Chair Dr. Richard Haw, 2014.
Adjunct Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, NY. Teaching Learning from the Past: Juvenile Justice and the 1980’s (120) in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies: Chair Dr. Richard Haw, 2014.
Adjunct Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, NY. Introduction to Criminal Justice (101) in the Law and Police Science Dept: Chair Dr. Maki Haberfeld, 2013.
Adjunct Professor, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, NY, NY. Taught three sections of core graduate course Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Multi-Cultural Social Work: Chair Dr. Elizabeth Danto, 2011-2013.
Adjunct Professor, Hunter College, NY, NY. Taught Sociology, Social Welfare Policy senior course: Sociology Department Chair Dr. Robert Perinbanayagam, 2007.
Guest lecturer, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Social Welfare Doctoral program, Research Methods, “How to incorporate evidence-based practice in Criminal Justice,” 2009 and 2010.
Annual guest lecturer Notre Dame de Namur University Belmont, CA.
Sociology, Criminology and Community, “Juvenile Justice in San Francisco,” 2000-2004.
American Psychological Association
American Society of Criminology
National Association of Social Workers
Publications:
Book:
Fischer, N.R. (2020). The Case for Youth Police Initiative: Interdependent Fates and the Power of Peace, London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis (page count 261; word count 108,705).
Journal Articles:
Fischer, N.R. (2022). School Based Harm Reduction with Adolescents: A Pilot Study (with 701 high school freshmen). Substance Use Treatment, Prevention and Policy. DOI.10.1186/s13011-022-00502-1 (page count 38; word count 7205).
Fischer, N. R. (2020). Interdependent fates: Youth and police—Can they make peace? Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000466 (page count 8; word count 3718).
Popular Articles:
Fischer, N.R and Paris, Jay. (January 2023). “Overcoming Stereotypes between officers and teens,” Police Chief Magazine. (page count 10; word count 2531)
Fischer, N.R. (July 22nd, 2020). “What young people and the police can learn from each other,” The New York Daily News, (page count 5; word count 1611)
Technical Research Publications:
Fischer, N.R. (August 2022). Rapid Youth Referral Report. Report about
alternative to incarceration intervention evaluation funded by the Research Foundation (page count 14; word count 4550).
Fischer, N.R. (June 2022). Social Justice Teaching Fellowship. Evaluative report of
intensive yearlong initiative to redress oppressive teaching strategies (page count 9; word count 3309).
Barrot De Britto, J. & Fischer, N.R. (July 2020). Youth Police Initiative Online Virtual Curriculum that stemmed from evaluation (page count 6; word count 2282).
Fischer, N.R. (June 2019). Safety First: Real Drug Education for Teens Evaluation San
Francisco. Research report funded through a grant from the Drug Policy Alliance (page count 61; word count 16027).
Fischer, N.R. (July 2018). Evaluation of Youth Police Initiative, Kansas City, Missouri.
Research report funded by the Boy and Girls Club of America (page count 15; word count 5620).
Fischer, N.R. (April 2018). Evaluation of Safety First: Real Education for Teens. Principal Investigator for research commissioned by Drug Police Alliance.
Fischer, N.R. (November 2017). Evaluation of Youth Police Initiative Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. Principal Investigator. Office of the Advancement of Research John Jay College.
Fischer, N.R. (July, 2016). NAFI Youth & Police Initiative Training Hempstead and
Wyandanch Long Island. Principal Investigator for research commissioned by the Nassau and Suffolk Department of Probation.
Division of Criminal Justice Services. (2014). Statewide Plan for Juvenile Justice
Reentry. Washington DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs.
Book Chapters:
Fischer, N.R. (2011). Model Approaches for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance: Systems of Care and Wraparound. In S.A. Estrine, R.T. Hettenbach, H. Arthur & M. Messina (Eds.), New Directions in Behavioral Health: Service Delivery Strategies for Vulnerable Populations (pp. 87-104). New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
Arthur, H.; Bowler, S & Fischer, N.R. (2011). Children Youth and Families. In S.A. Estrine, R.T. Hettenbach, H. Arthur & M. Messina (Eds.), New Directions in Behavioral Health: Service Delivery Strategies for Vulnerable Populations, (pp. 71-85). New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
Podcast:
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“Creating a framework for a culturally affirming, inclusive and anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy,” https://anchor.fm/allison-pease.
Curriculum and Training Manuals:
Fischer, N.R. (2004). Case Management and Counseling, Curriculum and Training for Peace Officers. San Francisco: Department of Public Health for Department of Probation.
Fischer, N.R. (2002). Theatre for Incarcerated Adolescents Curriculum. San Francisco: Department of Public Health for Department of Probation.
Fischer, N.R. (2001 revised, 3rd edition). Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention for young, incarcerated men. San Francisco: The Commission on the Status of Women.
Fischer, N.R. (2001 revised, 3rd edition). Youth Striving for Excellence Harm Reduction Program and All Successful Individuals Mentor Program Grant. San Francisco: The Department of Public Health.
Corpuz, R. and Fischer, N.R. (2001). Harm Reduction and Gang Violence Manual. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (2000). How to Be a Mentor: Manual and Training. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (2000). Youth Development Model and Principles Training and Curriculum. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (1999). TRIBES for San Francisco Group Development Training and Curriculum. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (1999). Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS Prevention Training and Curriculum. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (1999). Substance Use Prevention Training and Curriculum. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (1999). Nutrition and Hygiene for Youth Training and Curriculum. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (1999). Harm Reduction for Adolescents Training and Curriculum. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (1998). Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Psycho-Educational Group Curriculum. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (1998). Health Education for Adolescents Curriculum. San Francisco: The Center for Human Development.
Fischer, N.R. (1993). Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 101 Training and Curriculum. Olympia, Washington: Safeplace.
Fischer, N.R. (1993). Lesbian Battering Manual. Olympia, Washington: Evergreen State College.
Fischer, N.R. (1993). Rape and Oppression; Prevention Manual. Olympia, Washington: Evergreen State College.
Works in Progress:
Fischer, N.R.; Enciso-Dominguez, G.; Perez, A. (2022). Social Justice Pedagogy in a
Pandemic: Cross-Disciplinary Virtual Teaching Model, Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, (in progress) (pages 32; 8139).
Articles I Peer Reviewed
2020 Peer reviewed manuscript # JCS-05-2020-0018 entitled, “Intervention response to the trauma-exposed, justice-involved female youth: A narrative review of effectiveness in reducing recidivism,” for Journal of Children’s Services.
2019 Peer reviewed manuscript # PAC-2019-1802 entitled, “Reconstructing Gender Approach to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding,” in Sub-Saharan Africa for Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.
2019 Peer reviewed manuscript # DRE-19-0002 entitled "Gender, Ethnicity, and Survey Design as Sources of Differences in Self-Reported Illicit Substance Use and Other Illegal Behavior" for Journal of Drug Education: Substance Abuse Research and Prevention.
2018 Peer review of manuscript # WWCJ-2018-0035 entitled “Risk heterogeneity in the repeat online victimization of college women: Individual, situational, and
behavioral risk factors from within the hook up culture,” journal Women and Criminal Justice.
2016 Peer Review of manuscript # JOJJ-2016-0008.R1 entitled "Reducing Juvenile Recidivism through Specialized Reentry Services: A Second Chance Act Project for Journal of Juvenile Justice.
2016 Peer Reviewed manuscript # JOJJ-2016-0008 entitled "Reducing Juvenile Recidivism through Specialized Reentry Services: A Second Chance Act Project" for Journal of Juvenile Justice.
2015 Peer reviewed manuscript # JOJJ-2015-0023 entitled "Time In, Time Out: Resilience Narratives of Formerly Incarcerated Emerging Adults" for Journal of Juvenile Justice.
Conference Presentations:
“The Case for Youth Police Initiative: Interdependent Fates and the Power of Peace,” University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy’s Safe Communities Institute Distinguished Speakers Series, October 26th, 2022- link to talk https://sci.usc.edu/2022/11/09/case-for-youth-police-initiative/.
“How to Liberate the Classroom! Realizing Interdisciplinary Social Justice Pedagogies,” Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference at Southern Utah University, October 2021.
“How to Liberate the Classroom! Realizing Virtual Social Justice Pedagogies in the time of COVID,” NASW Conference, October 2021.
“Evaluation of Youth Police Initiative,” ACTNOW White House conference for progressive criminal justice policies and practices, September 2021.
Book Talk, The Case for Youth Police Initiative: Interdependent Fates and the Power of Peace. Invited by Dr. Grace Telesco from the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education, School of Criminal Justice, Nova Southeastern University, October 2021.
“Culturally Affirming Practices in the On-line Environment” panel discussion at Hispanic Serving Institutions Learning Resilience Conference, November 2020.
“Evaluation of Youth Police Initiative: A case for interdependent fates?” panel presentation at American Society of Criminology San Francisco, CA 2019.
“Does harm reduction-based drug education for teens work? Evaluation results of Safety First curriculum” panel presentation at the American Society of Criminology San Francisco, CA 2019.
“Mixed methods evaluation Real Drug Education for Teens pilot” presentation at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, St. Louis, MO 2019.
“Adolescent Harm Reduction in the Classroom,” panel presentation at American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia 2018.
“Double bind and doing time criminalizing sexuality: Young women of color in the criminal justice system” panel presentation at American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia 2018.
“Youth and Police: How to Make Peace” panel presentation at American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia 2018.
“Wraparound Service: Working Outside the System” Chair of Panel and presenter at American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia 2018.
“Youth and Police: Making Peace,” presented papers at the International Conference of Social Sciences in Rome, Italy, June 2018.
“Gender Differential: Keeping Young Women Out of Jail,” presented paper at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA, November 2017.
“Young women and reentry in juvenile justice: Sexuality plays a key role,” Presented findings at Criminalizing Gender: Best Practices, Programs and Policies That Make a Difference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, April 2017.
“Youth and Police- The Power of Peace,” Presented paper at Touro College Graduate School of Social Work at annual Community Conference, 2015.
“Using Practice Based Research to Inform Policy: From Jail to Community a Unique Case Study,” Presented paper Third International Conference on Practice Research at Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, 2014.
“Youth & Police Initiative Training,” Presented paper and led workshop at The Association for Conflict Resolution Greater New York Chapter, Inc. (ACR-GNY) at John Jay University, 2009.
“Drama-therapy,” Presented paper and led work shop at national non-profit North American Family Institute’s annual conference in Danvers, MA, 2008.
“Harm Reduction in the Classroom,” Presented paper to over at Harm Reduction Conference in San Francisco, CA, 2000.
“Gender and Racial Aggression,” Presented workshop to all freshmen classes at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA., 1994-1995.
“Rape and Oppression,” Presented workshop to all freshmen classes at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA., 1994-1995.
“Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 101,” Presented workshop to all police officers and first year medial residents at Safeplace in Olympia, WA., 1994.
2022 Distinguished Teaching Award
2021-2022 Social Justice Teaching Fellow
2021 Audre Lorde Award for Social Justice service and academic contributions to LQBTQI students and external community
2019 Andrew Weil Award for Research in Drug Education
2019 Faculty Fellowship Publication Program
2014 Emerging Scholar Practice-Research Award
2007-2008 Hunter College University Fellow
2007-2008 School of Social Work University Fellow
2006-2007 School of Social Work University Fellow
2005-2006 School of Social Work University Fellow
2005-2006 City University Fellowship
2001 San Francisco Dept. of Public Health, SF, CA. Outstanding Achievement Award for excellence directing harm reduction interventions for youth in detention and under-resourced schools
Dr. Nina Rose Fischer is currently Principal Investigator for three original research projects 1) youth and police relations; 2) substance use harm reduction with teens; and 3) arrest diversion for youth with gun charges. She has always included students as Researchers in her Participatory Action Research designs. She published a book called The Case for Youth Police Initiative: Interdependent Fates and the Power of Peace an ethnographic exploration of youth/police relations; and recommendations for how law enforcement can benefit from social welfare infrastructure. She is Executive Producer of a documentary series in progress based on her book. She is interested in producing new works through creative platforms like film andTV that reach beyond academic audiences.