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In Memory

Alan Leslie Fisher - Class Of 1965

Alan Leslie Fisher

 

 

   

   

   ALAN LESLIE FISHER 
      February 7, 1947 – September 16, 2021

         Residence: San Francisco, California


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan was born in Portland, Oregon, grew up in Palo Alto, California and graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz as a member of the inaugural freshman class.

Beloved, intelligent, handsome, and a person of great integrity, Alan was a fierce advocate for social and economic justice.

Among his many accomplishments, Alan was proudest of his sons David and Ben and his grandchildren Violet and Clay. His greatest passions were his family and his large community of friends.

Alan's life goal was to leave the world in a better place. Early in his career he worked as a printer, machinist, and photographer, and spent a decade as a steelworker deeply active in the Union as a shop steward in Baltimore, Maryland. Wanting to direct his advocacy on economic inequality, Alan went on to receive an MBA from UCLA, followed by a move to San Francisco with his family to raise his children in the city.

Alan's guiding principle was to do good and be humble. He served for 20 years as the founding Executive Director of the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC). He worked with what started as a loose committee of housing advocates to create the largest reinvestment coalition in the country. Under Alan's leadership, along with a great staff and growing membership, CRC was able to hold some of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world to account.

Alan was nationally recognized for his expertise in reinvestment, small business lending, banking and economic development serving many years on the boards of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center.

Alan was an avid traveler. He and his sons Ben and David travelled to the Arctic Circle, went on Safaris in Kenya and Tanzania, visited National Parks, Iceland, Central and South America and the Amazon Rainforest. He continued these adventures with the love of his life, his wife, Sharon where their adventures took them to many places including Australia, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Turkey. Sadly, their plans to see more of the world ended way too soon.

Alan was preceded in death by his parents, Jeanne and Leon Fisher. He is survived by his wife, Sharon Miller, sons, David  (Heather Carroll-Fisher), Ben (Micaela Salatino) and stepdaughter, Lisa Russell; grandchildren: Violet and Clayson; brothers: Neil and Monte Fisher and a sister, Eve Devine, the Fisher family cousins, and many friends. He loved you all.

If you would like to make a donation in memory of Alan, please send your gift to Hospitality House, www.hospitalityhouse.org, or to a nonprofit organization of your choice.