In Recognition: Katrina Nobles
Katrina Nobles, Director of Conflict Programs for the Scheinman Institute is the recipient of two Engaged Faculty fellowships sponsored through the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, the Faculty Fellow in Engaged Scholarship and the Faculty Fellow in Engaged Learning, for the 2023/24 year. She is also a Thomas P. Golden Employee Recognition award winner, an award that recognizes innovative collaborations, mentorship, and exemplary performance that contributes to moving the mission of ILR Outreach forward . Harry Katz, Director of the Scheinman Institute noted, “Katrina is an invaluable member of the Scheinman Institute team. These honors are well deserved.”
Nobles' work includes designing curriculum, instructing professional and customized programs, and facilitating discussions for organizational workplace conflicts. She also teaches the Campus Mediation Practicums, two on-campus credit courses that apply mediation skills to individual and organizational student disputes, and the campus judicial system, allowing students to work as peer mediators.
Katrina’s research interests span both labor and employment Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Most recently, she has had the opportunity to be a part of joint research and writing projects about conflict resolution in public agencies including an international comparison, as well as non-union ADR and how that system may be in flux. Currently, she is also leading her own research regarding the landscape of labor and employment mediator characteristics.
In the private and not-for-profit sectors, Katrina has worked with multiple clients to provide facilitation among conflicted teams and departments. In this area, she has also designed and provided training regarding employee relations, collaborative problem solving, cross-cultural communication, performance management, unconscious bias, mediation, facilitation, diagnosing conflict, and leading difficult and heated conversations.
Katrina has practiced mediation for several years, and prior to her employment at Cornell, Katrina was the Cortland County Coordinator for New Justice Mediation Services. During that time, Nobles mediated hundreds of community, child custody/visitation, child support, and family disputes. She holds a Masters in Conflict Analysis and Engagement from Antioch University Midwest, and is currently enrolled in the MS/PhD program in the ILR School at Cornell University.