KC is the Director of The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR’s Equity at Work Initiative. 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 (https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/74350). KC’s applied research includes cultural audits and educational needs assessments that centers workers voice using a participatory model of survey design and implementation; and methodologies that empower and engage workers to be active in research that has influenced educational programming, public policy and cultural change initiatives (https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2021/05/05/healing-into-power-an-approach-for-confronting-workplace-sexual-violence/) and(https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/74351).
KC has provided training to worker centers, private and public sector unions, corporations, non-profit, educational and government organizations in diverse industries, professions and workplace settings. She has partnered with community based anti-violence programs to develop workplace programs that engage men as allies in addressing sexual and gender-based violence (https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2021/05/05/healing-into-power-an-approach-for-confronting-workplace-sexual-violence/ and https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/74347). She has also provided educational coaching to those who have engaged in harassing behaviors and violated their employer’s policies as part of an “immediate and appropriate corrective action”, designed and implemented educational programs in Duty of Fair Representation (DFR) and Title VII settlement agreements 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 Master’s in Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work and a Master’s of Labor and Industrial Relations from Rutgers University.