A veteran Department of Energy officer with additional experience as a journalist for the Associated Press and as a public information officer for the United Nations, will be retiring.
Gayle Fisher, a public affairs officer at the Kansas City Field Office, will be retiring from the Department of Energy after working at that department for over three decades. One of the things that moved her to work on behalf of the environment was a year-long 3,000 mile backpacking trip across the United States as a young woman.
“That was one of the best years of my life” Fisher said. “I still remember hiking across Kansas in the cold weather. My friends and I would knock on farmhouses and ask for coffee. The local grapevine informed everyone we were coming.”
Fisher got her journalism degree from the University of Nevada at Reno and later wrote for the Associated Press in both Reno and San Francisco. Following a stint of several years working at the White House, she applied for and received a position working as a public information officer at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. Following her retirement, Fisher plans to move back to Las Vegas.
