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Choose your path to get involved as you reconnect with, learn from, inspire and serve ILRies on campus, in your city and around the world through: 

  • Social Events - Meet old and new friends at fun local events
  • Professional Development & NetworkingBuild your network as you upskill with established and emerging leaders in the field; meet, advise and learn from current ILR students and recent graduates through student/alumni programs and mentoring opportunities
  • Academic ExplorationLearn the latest on trending topics from ILR faculty and experts
  • Service ProjectsGive back with other ILRies

Contact ILRAA President, Nicole Mormilo ’12 (nmormilo@gmail.com), to get more involved!

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Career Transition Initiative (CTI)

The ILRAA Board of Directors launched a Career Transition Initiative (CTI) in January 2024 to support alumni who are reentering the workforce, navigating a layoff, or pivoting in their career. To date, the CTI has offered complimentary headshots and alumni mixers in six cities and 12 skill-building webinars.

Complimentary Headshots: Look for an email announcement about where the ILRAA will host the next round of free professional photographs with Bitanga Productions.

Watch the Webinars: The CTI webinars equip alumni with practical tools and tips to navigate their career transitions. Watch them here!

Share Your Skills: Do you have skills, experiences, or resources to share with alumni in career transition? Tell us about your career-transition talents HERE! The ILRAA Board hopes to create new webinars, develop mentorship opportunities, host networking events and much more to support alumni. We hope you’ll consider sharing your time and talents!

Get Involved: The ILRAA Board encourages you to:

Alumni Bio-Bursts

See all Bio-Bursts

The ILR Alumni Association Bio Burst project, a monthly video series that introduces you to members of ILR's recent alumni community.

Pranav Sehgal

For our October 2020 Bio Burst, meet Pranav Sehgal, a member of the ILR Class of 2015 and a Research Associate at ARGA Investment Management. Check out Pranav’s story and hear about his appreciation for Cornell’s diversity and enthusiastic professors.
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Pranav Sehgal

Wendy Lamanque

For our September 2020 Bio Burst, meet Wendy LaManque, a member of the ILR Class of 2010 and Eastern Counsel for the American Guild of Musical Artists.
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Wendy Lamanque

Ashley Estrada

For our July 2020 Bio Burst, meet Ashley Estrada, a member of the Class of 2016, and a Middle Market Banking Associate at JP Morgan.
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Ashley Estrada

Mike Annunziata

For our May 2020 Bio Burst, meet Mike Annunziata, a member of the Class of 2011, and the CEO of Farther Farms. By developing novel technologies to extend shelf-life, preserve nutritional value, and achieve food safety, Farther Farms creates food products that solve foundational problems in the food system.
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Mike Annunziata

Nina Gershy

Nina Gershowitz '16, who has worked in the circus world, has continued her focus on the arts as a project manager for a dance video production company.
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Nina Gershy

Events

Labor & Trade Economics Workshop: Jessie Handbury

Jessie Handbury Demographic Preferences and Income Segregation We study how preferences over the demographic composition of co-patrons affects income segregation in shared spaces. To distinguish demographic preferences from tastes for other venue attributes, we study venue choices within business chains. We find two notable regularities: preferences for high-income co-patrons are similar across racial groups, and racial homophily does not vary by income. These demographic preferences are economically large, explain much of the cross-group variation in exposure to high-income co-patrons, and correlate with movers’ neighborhood choices.

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Labor & Trade Economics Workshop: Jessie Handbury

Public Sector Labor Struggles, Then and Now

Given the turmoil unfolding currently in the federal workforce and the ramifications for civil servants at every level of government—particularly those working in health and educational services—now would be an apt time to talk about what’s happening in terms of organizing and advocacy for public-sector workers, to help put these struggles in historical context, and to think broadly about the impact of these attacks on the public workforce and social services. This conversation will yield ideas about how communities, educational institutions, and labor groups might defend crucial public resources going forward. Speakers: A professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, Eric Blanc is author of the substack Labor Politics as well as the new book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Joseph McCartin is a professor of American history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. McCartin's scholarship focuses on the intersection of labor organization, politics, and public policy. He is the author of more than 130 articles, chapters, and reviews in the fields of labor history and labor studies. Todd Dickey is an assistant professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University where his research and teaching centers on workplace conflict management, federal sector labor relations, and labor-management partnership in the public and nonprofit sectors. From 2022-2024, Todd served as Advisor to the Chairman at the Federal Labor Relations Authority where he assisted with the implementation of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment’s federal sector labor relations recommendations. Aurora Rojer is a public school social studies teacher and secretary of the Ithaca Teachers Association (ITA). She is also co-chair of the ITA Contract Action Team, who are currently bargaining a contract. MT Snyder is a MILR graduate and Field Examiner with the National Labor Relations Board in San Francisco. She is a rank and file member of the National Labor Relations Board Union and an organizer with the Federal Unionists Network.

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Public Sector Labor Struggles, Then and Now

Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Eric Chyn

Eric Chyn Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds? Boys are less likely than girls to enter college, a gap that is often attributed to a lack of non-cognitive skills such as motivation and self-discipline. We study how being classified as gifted – determined by having an IQ score of 116 or higher – affects college entry rates of disadvantaged children in a large urban school district. For boys with IQ’s around the cutoff, gifted identification raises the college entry rate by 25-30 percentage points – enough to catch up with girls in the same IQ range. In contrast, we find small effects for girls. Looking at course-taking and grade outcomes in middle and high school, we find large effects of gifted status for boys that close most of the gaps with girls, but no detectable effects on standardized tests scores of either gender. Overall, we interpret the evidence as demonstrating that gifted services raise the non-cognitive skills of boys conditional on their cognitive skills, leading to gains in educational attainment.

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Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Eric Chyn

Labor Economics Workshop: Raffaella Sadun

Raffaella Sadun

Localist event image for Labor Economics Workshop:  Raffaella Sadun
Labor Economics Workshop: Raffaella Sadun

Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Davide Coluccia

Davide Coluccia

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Labor & Public Economics Workshop: Davide Coluccia