Representative Fisher has helped pass legislation expanding and toughening domestic violence laws and helped increase funding for community-based programs helping women and children who are survivors of domestic violence.  In the most recent interim between the long and short sessions of the General Assembly, she was appointed to the Joint Study Commission on Work and Family Balance, a committee working on issues affecting women in the workplace.  Susan helped form the organization WNC Citizens for Choice, served as one of the first board members of the Center for Diversity Education, and received Planned Parenthood's "B. Holt" award, named for the longtime NC House member, for her early efforts to pass the Healthy Youth Act. Rep. Fisher also helped pass a law improving the gender equity reporting statute, ensuring that appointments to decision-making regulatory bodies are fair to women, and has consistently worked to ensure that women's voices are heard in policy decisions.