Tyler Fisher

Tyler Fisher is an experienced civic entrepreneur and strategist.

Tyler is the Founder and Principal of Trailmark Strategies. He advises philanthropists, advocacy organizations, and early stage startups on issues including democracy, mental health, housing, and immigration. Trailmark’s name recognizes that any social change actor — whether they be a philanthropist, advocacy professional, elected official, or entrepreneur — is on a journey. That journey must be marked by signs you are on the right track, benchmarks to know how far you have gone, and maps to guide your future trek.

Tyler is also a Senior Advisor to Dalberg, a global consulting firm that collaborates with local communities and global networks of change makers. Dalberg provides strategic advising, data insights, design thinking, implementation capacity, media expertise, and research capabilities to governments, nonprofits, philanthropists, and companies.

Prior to founding Trailmark, Tyler spent 7.5 years building Unite America, a philanthropic pooled fund advancing nonpartisan election reforms in the United States, including open primaries, independent redistricting commissions, vote by mail, and ranked choice voting. He was the organization’s second employee and held accountabilities for research, grantmaking, learning, strategy, stakeholder management, operations, board management, and program leadership.

Tyler is diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. He is passionate about using his lived experience to destigmatize conversations about mental wellness, inspire philanthropists to invest in the issue, and scale impactful policy and program interventions to stem the crisis we face in the United States and around the globe. He volunteers with Mental Health Colorado and Illness and writes a Substack: “Bipolar and Bipartisan.”

Tyler graduated with degrees in government and economics from George Mason University. He also studied international development and British/EU relations at Oxford University. Tyler lives in Edgewater, Colorado just outside Denver with his wife Stepahnie and son Theodore. He advises his city’s elected leaders on mental health, housing, policing, and democracy issues — over coffees and periodic comments at sparsely attended city council meetings. He is an outdoor enthusiast who loves to ski, bike, golf, camp, and run.