The Worker Institute at Cornell University announced that alumna Patricia Campos-Medina '96, '97 will become its new the Executive Director.
According to the annoucement "Campos-Medina joined the Worker Institute team in 2015 to co-direct the Worker Institute’s foundational labor leadership development program – the NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute program. During her five years at the Institute, Patricia has also conducted field research on immigrant workers’ rights, served as a policy advisor to labor unions and worker justice organizations seeking to expand organizing rights to workers in the warehousing and service industries, and served as a liaison to ILR students interested in pursuing careers in the labor and social justice movements."
The Worker Institue is housed in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
This article originally appeared in the ILR News page on January 7, 2021.
