Alumni Stories

A funding campaign that will enable more students to participate in tournaments is being led by the ILR School, where the Cornell Speech and Debate Program is based.

Christy Pambianchi ’90 and Ed Baum ’81 shared personal stories about their families and Cornell experiences at the school’s annual alumni awards event.

ILR helped guide 2002 graduate toward a career in social entrepreneurship.

A senior manager and human resources business partner for CVS Health, Ardrell Mannings '91 serves as a mentor and sponsor for LINK Unlimited Scholars, the same organization that once helped him find his way to the ILR School.

Eliot Schuman ’75 has coached Cornell’s Mock Trial Association for nine years.

A long-time fan of the Grateful Dead, Rob Klein ’97 was the “matchmaker” who helped bring the band back to Cornell for a May show in Barton Hall 46 years after its iconic 5/8/77 performance.

Gary Bettman ’74, the longest-tenured commissioner in the history of the four major North American sports leagues, was honored with the Sports Business Journal's 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 14th annual Sports Business Awards on May 24 in New York City.

Dana D. Moss, Corning Incorporated vice president and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, and ILR Dean Alexander Colvin will discuss workplace DEI&I.

The first step in helping employees find solutions is listening, according to Derek Cullimore, a 2022 graduate of the ILR School’s Executive Master of Human Resource Management program.

Maddie Campbell ’16 left a successful career in finance to pursue a civil rights law passion nurtured by an inspiring ILR course, “Thwarting the Dream of Brown v. Board of Education.”

Alpern Award winner Ed Baum’s service to the school takes many forms, including a scholarship that helps support Cornell students from low-income communities in New York City.

Zev Eigen, founder and chief data scientist of Syndio, has studied and worked at the intersection of workplace issues and complex analytics since he was an ILR student in the 1990s.

Since joining the National Football League Players Association as its general counsel & head of business, Sean Sansiveri ’05 has been behind the NFL’s most important measures to make the game safer.

The NHL is celebrating Gary Bettman’s tenure as commissioner through ILR scholarship and sports management funds.

Through hard work and a willingness to seize every opportunity that comes her way, Christy Pambianchi ’90 has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative HR professionals in the business today.

The person who leads the most extensive African American newspaper collective in the U.S. says fellow ILRies have influenced who he is as an executive.

In appreciation for teaching that welcomes differing views, Eric Wagner ’92 is supporting the Worker Institute Undergraduate Student Research Fellows Program.

The Labor Arbitrator Development Program helped Sarah Miller Espinosa '95 move to a profession that sets a high bar for newcomers.

Three ILRies discuss how the MILR degree enhanced their careers.

Internships, study projects and other learning experiences, as well as other programs, will benefit from fund.

The professorship in labor relations was endowed this year through a generous gift from David M. Cohen ’73 and Abby Joseph Cohen, A&S '73.

Over a half-century career that spans the worlds of labor relations, futuristics and Holocaust studies, sociologist Arthur Shostak ’58 has championed the role of the “upstander.”

Jerome “Jerry” Alpern ’49, MBA ’50, inspired loyalty across the ILR community.

ILR alumna leading 1.7million-member American Federation of Teachers for eighth term.

Thirty-one years after Marty Schmelkin ’91 graduated from ILR, Hannah Schmelkin ‘22 joins her father in the ILR School’s alumni ranks.