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KC Wagner

Director Equity at Work, The Worker Institute, Cornell University

KC is the Director of Equity Initiative at the Worker Institute. Using an intersectional lens and a multi­ disciplinary, equity centered and systems change approach, she has specialized in the prevention of sexual harassment, gender bias, bullying, gender-based violence and promoting inclusiveness in the workplace for over 30 years. KC has provided training to worker centers, unions, corporations, non-profit, educational and government organizations in diverse industries, professions and workplace settings. She has also provided educational coaching to those who have engaged in harassing behaviors, developed programs that engage men as allies in addressing sexual and gender-based violence and testified as an expert witness in several landmark sexual harassment cases. In New York, she has received recognition for her work around sexual and gender-based violence from Cornell's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the US National Committee for UN Women. KC holds a Masters in Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work and a Master's of Labor and Industrial Relations from Rutgers University.