Lizzie Taber (High Road Fellow 2021) describes her her work at the Citizens for Regional Transit in Buffalo, New York and inspiration to work on transit and connectivity to reduce isolation.
The High Road Builder awardees for this historic summer are two extraordinary women, Shannon Gleeson and Lorna Hill, whose compassion and influence cross borders and span divides.
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.
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.
Cornell Fellows Continue Tradition of Public Service to Greater Buffalo
In June and July, 21 Cornell undergraduates will come to Western New York to contribute to community and economic development with an array of community-based organizations and local elected officials.
ILR’s work in Buffalo helps “strengthen institutions so that they can more effectively change the world and create an economy that works for everyone,” according to Lou Jean Fleron.
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
