Alan Fisher

1947 - 2021

Alan Leslie Fisher
February 7, 1947 – September 16, 2021
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 a better place for his having been in it. Early in his career he worked as a printer, machinist, and photographer, and spent a decade as a steel worker, 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, Safaris in Kenya and Tanzania, National Parks, Iceland, Central and South America, including the Amazon Rainforest. He continued these adventures with the love of his life, his wife Sharon, where their adventures took them to Australia, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Turkey among many other places. Sadly, their plans to see more of the world ended way too soon.

Alan is preceded in death by his parents, Jeanne and Leon Fisher. He is survived by his wife, Sharon Miller, sons, David Fisher (Heather Carroll-Fisher), Ben Fisher (Micaela Salatino) stepdaughter, Lisa Russell, grandchildren, Violet and Clayson, brothers, Neil and Monte Fisher, sister, Eve Devine, the Fisher family cousins, and many friends. He loves 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. The family will start sitting Shiva at their home on 9/19 - 9/24, please contact them for information.