Murray Fisher

Honorary Board Member

Murray Fisher graduated in 1998 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN with a degree in Biology and a double minor in Latin American Studies and Environmental Studies. He moved immediately to New York to work for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at Hudson Riverkeeper. Here he developed an intense love and understanding of the Hudson River, where he spent one year creating a museum about the history of the environmental movement and delivering education programs to schools throughout the Hudson Valley. He later helped launch Waterkeeper Alliance, the umbrella organization for the then thirty six Waterkeeper programs throughout the world. Murray left Waterkeeper Alliance in the fall of 2002 to found the New York Harbor School (NYHS) with Richard Kahan from The Urban Assembly. NYHS was approved in April 2003, and Murray became the school's Program Director, charged informally with bringing the Harbor to NYHS, which was located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Specifically, Murray: managed the school's outside partners, which now number over sixty, and with these partners, raised approximately $300,000 yearly for our on-water and after school programs; created and managed many of these same after-school, weekend and summer opportunities for students, particularly on the water.