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Directors

  • Director of Scheinman Institute
  • Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining

  • Executive Director of Scheinman Institute
  • Director, Labor-Management Relations Programs

Affiliated Faculty

  • Professor
  • Labor Relations, Law, and History
  • Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research

Ariel Avgar is a Professor at the ILR School at Cornell University and Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research.

  • Kenneth F. Kahn '69 Dean, ILR School
  • Martin F. Scheinman '75, MS '76, Professor of Conflict Resolution

Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. '99, is the Kenneth F. Kahn '69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman '75, 'MS '76 Professor of Conflict Resolution at the ILR School, Cornell University.

  • Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining

  • Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Professor Lee examines key features of social influence, where one person makes an overture toward another in the hopes of achieving a particular economic or subjective outcome.

  • Assistant Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History

Program Directors

  • Director, Healthcare Labor Relations

  • Mediation and Training Extension Associate

Liz Davis-Frost is a mediator, coach, and question-asker.

  • Labor Arbitrator and Mediator

Sarah Miller Espinosa, J.D., is a labor arbitrator, mediator, and organizational ombuds.

  • Higher Education Programs Specialist

  • Executive Director of Scheinman Institute
  • Director, Labor-Management Relations Programs

  • Director, Labor Relations

  • Director of Conflict Programs
  • Scheinman Institute, ILR
She is the Director of Conflict Programs for the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution at the Cornell University ILR School.

  • Director Labor-Management Relations Programs, Public Sector
  • Labor Arbitrator and Mediator

Ellen Gallin Procida is the Director of Labor/Management Relations Programs at The Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution, ILR School, Corne

  • Senior Extension Associate, Labor Relations Programs

Cheryl Teare brings twenty years of experience designing and delivering training and skill development to leaders in labor.

  • Director, Western NY Labor and Environmental Programs

Post Doctoral Associates

  • Postdoctoral Associate

Katherine Simpson joined the Scheinman Institute on August 15th as Postdoctoral Associate. She has extensive arbitration and mediation experience. Katherine earned her J.D.

Staff

  • Program Manager of Scheduling and Special Projects

  • Program Administrative Assistant

  • Program Administrative Assistant

  • Program Administrative Assistant

  • ADR Program Manager

  • Strategic Initiatives Lead