CAROW Policy Lab

We aim to bring together world-leading researchers to shape national and international public policy through innovation, collaboration, and debate.

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Our Mission

Multidisciplinary Community

Bringing together world-leading researchers to shape public policy through innovation, collaboration, and debate.

The Policy Lab is a multidisciplinary community within The Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) and the ILR School that connects research on work with the practice of putting it to use. As a home for the robust policy work taking place across Cornell, the CAROW Policy Lab is uniquely positioned to facilitate collaboration between colleagues working on state and national-level policy analysis, recommendations, and tools. Through this collaboration, we ultimately aim to provide the public with the tools to understand and resolve the challenges of our contemporary labor market and its many intersections.

Policy Lab Members

Our members span ILR's many disciplines, initiatives and research groups. We are made up of researchers and educators, policy specialists, communicators and advocates.

Policy Lab Staff

Zach Beauvais

Assistant Director, Content Strategy

Zach Beauvais

Anne Marie Brady

Director of Research for Worker Rights and Equity, The Worker Institute

Anne DeCecco

Senior Research and Policy Development Associate

Portrait of Anne DeCecco

Rusty Weaver

Director of Research, ILR Buffalo Co-Lab

Russell Weaver

Policy Lab Affiliates

Jodi Anderson Jr.

Director of Technological Innovation, Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative

Esta Bigler

Director of Cornell University ILR’s Labor and Employment Law Program

Labor and Employment Law Program Director Esta R. Bigler '70

Kate Bronfenbrenner

Director of Labor Education Research

Kate Bronfenbrenner

Susanne Bruyere

Academic Director, Yang-Tan Institute

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Patricia Campos-Medina

Executive Director, The Worker Institute

Patricia Medina

Cathy Creighton

Director of Cornell University ILR Buffalo Co-Lab

Cathy Creighton

Ian Greer

Research Professor
Director, ILR Ithaca Co-Lab

Ian Greer

Kaitlyn Jackson

Policy Associate for the Yang Tan Institute on Employment and Disability

Kaitlyn Jackson

Jason Judd

Executive Director of the Global Labor Institute

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Amber McConnell

Senior Extension Associate at the Yang-Tan Institute

Timothy McNutt

Director, Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative

portrait of Timothy McNutt

Iris Packman

Senior Research & Policy Development Associate, Climate Jobs Institute

Kimberly Osmani

Training and Content Development Associate with the Yang-Tan Institute

Kimberly Osmani

Steve Peraza

Senior Research & Policy Associate

sp2272@cornell.edu

Photo: Dr. Steve Peraza

Matthew Saleh

Director of Research, Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative

Matt Saleh - CJEI Director of Research

Arianna Schindle

Director of Training and Curriculum Design, Equity and Worker Rights, Worker Institute

Arianna Schindle

Lara Skinner

Executive Director, Climate Jobs Institute

portrait of Lara Skinner

Avalon Hoek Spaans

Assistant Director of Research, Climate Jobs Institute

Ellice Switzer

Transition Associate with the Yang-Tan Institute

Ellice Switzer

KC Wagner

Director of Workplace Issues at Cornell University's ILR Metro District Office in New York City.

KC Wagner

Zoë West

Senior Researcher, Worker Rights and Equity

Zoe West - WI