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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People Want Change

When I spoke to my supervisor at Open Buffalo for the first time, I asked: “How do you persuade people to care about your initiatives?” All the stories I saw on the news and my interactions with local government at home, told me that we are in a period of

Shara at the Nash House
People Want Change

Growing on the High Road

“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.”

2017 High Road Fellows Maame Britwum and Kaya Coleman at the Innovation Center on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
Growing on the High Road

Emerging Leaders on Buffalo's West Side

Fulfilling the promise

2017 High Road Fellow Nathanael Cheng at Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House
Emerging Leaders on Buffalo's West Side