Currently, a Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Career Enhancement Fellow, she is completing a manuscript entitled Blackness, Race and Gender Politics in Japanese Hiphop. Her work is also published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies and Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century (WW Norton & Co). Dr. Fischer is a founding staff member of Dr. Marcyliena Morgan’s Hiphop Archive as well as a co-founder of the National Hip Hop Political Convention. She co-directs the BAHHRS (Bay Area Hip Hop Research and Scholarship) project with Dave “Davey D” Cook, which is funded by the Cesar Chavez Institute’s Community University-Empowerment Grant.