High Road Buffalo Fellowships

Launched 2009

Engaged learning and applied research fellowships for Cornell students in Buffalo, NY.

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Buffalo's West Side Bazaar Mural

Since 2009, the High Road Fellowship Program has placed 235 Cornell students in the co-laboratory of Buffalo, N.Y. to learn, explore, examine and revitalize the historic Rust Belt city.

High Road Buffalo Stories

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High Road Goes Virtual, Real Results

From across the nation, ILRies work to bolster Buffalo’s future.
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High Road Goes Virtual, Real Results

The Prison Letters of CeCe McDonald

Panel discusses letters of CeCe McDonald, a Black Trans woman sentenced to 41 months in prison for defending her friends and herself from racist, transphobic assaulters.
CeCe McDonald
The Prison Letters of CeCe McDonald

High Road 2020: Place-Based Work from Any Place

Instead of bringing the students to Buffalo, the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab will be modifying summer projects, panels, tours, activities so that it can bring Buffalo to its Fellows.

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High Road 2020: Place-Based Work from Any Place