Dr. Fisher was a senior program officer with the Gates Family Foundation and the Director of the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver. She served on the board of the Colorado State Historical Society (now History Colorado) for 28 years and on the Advisory Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for 9 years, and was president of the Junior League of Denver. She was awarded the Molly Brown Spirit Award by Historic Denver for community service and the Alumni Recognition Award by the University of Colorado at Denver for her role in developing the public history (applied history) program at CU Denver. Her publications include Junior League: Leaders in Community Service 1918-1993, (Colorado Historical Society), Power's Dynamo Unloosed: Henry L. Doherty and the Denver Gas and Electric Company, (Essays and Monographs in Colorado History), and One Hundred Years of Energy, Public Service Company of Colorado (Garland Press). Hill's Gold, her her first novel, was awarded first place in historical fiction by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association and was also a finalist in western fiction for the Colorado Authors 2018 awards. The author has spent most of her life in Colorado enjoying the outdoors, which includes climbing all of Colorado's fourteeners, Mt. Rainier, and Kilimanjaro. She and her husband have three grown children and four grandsons.
