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Working Together Emphasized at YTI Conference

Hosted by the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, the conference Working Together: Advancing Disability Inclusion in NYS Workplaces brought together leaders, providers, educators, and self-advocates for presentations and conversations.
Susanne Bruyere, speaking at the Working Together conference
Working Together Emphasized at YTI Conference

Employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities is #Solvable

The Rockefeller Foundation
Susanne Bruyère shares how engaging businesses can help to identify, reach, train, and support disabled populations who may have been previously overlooked to empower talent and provide them with employment opportunities.
Employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities is #Solvable

Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

Cornell Chronicle
In a new episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Susanne Bruyère, director of the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, joins host Chris Wofford to discuss the growing number of corporate affirmative hiring programs to recruit individuals who are neurodivergent.
Different color puzzle pieces making up a face.
Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work

Bruyère Educates Saudi Officials on Disability Rights

Susanne Bruyère, a disability rights activist who has spent her career researching and advocating for policy change around inclusive hiring, recently assisted Saudi Arabia’s efforts to promote disability rights.
Susanne Bruyère give a presentation in Saudi Arabia.
Bruyère Educates Saudi Officials on Disability Rights

These disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits

NPR
Debora Wagner, senior extension associate with the Yang Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, discusses the challenges of using Supplemental Security Income.
These disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits

Matt Saleh Asks Questions, Spurs Impact

Matt is fascinated by the law and its relationship to disability and criminal justice. He is an energetic teacher and researcher in Cornell University’s ILR School, and he has taken on roles involving equity in employment.
Matt Saleh smiles thoughtfully while looking directly at the camera and sitting on a couch in front of a window.
Matt Saleh Asks Questions, Spurs Impact

Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

Jennifer D. Brooks and Sarah von Schrader investigated how access to remote work for people with disabilities has been affected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jennifer Brooks sits in her office while viewing the title page of her award-winning paper on her computer screen.
Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

I have a disability and I found a job I love. Social Security is making me pay dearly.

The Hill
In this opinion piece, Jennifer Brooks, a research associate at the Yang Tan Institute, explains how Social Security penalizes disabled workers.
I have a disability and I found a job I love. Social Security is making me pay dearly.

“Humble Leader” Celebrated

The Thomas P. Golden Courtyard was dedicated to a cherished ILR colleague whose extraordinary leadership advanced employment, equity and societal inclusion for people with disabilities.
Golden Courtyard fountain
“Humble Leader” Celebrated

Matthew Saleh Wins Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award

Cornell Chronicle
Senior Research Associate at Yang-Tan Institute recognized for his work on career pathways for youth with disabilities and other barriers to employment.
Matthew Saleh
Matthew Saleh Wins Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award

Bruyére Honored for Impact

The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology has named Susanne Bruyére a fellow for changing the course of her field and is publishing a book she co-edited about neurodiversity in the workplace.
Susanne Bruyére
Bruyére Honored for Impact

Yang-Tan Institute Announces Directors

Andrew Karhan and Wendy Strobel Gower will serve in positions named by K. Lisa Yang ’74 in honor of Thomas Golden.
Wendy Strobel Gower and Andrew Karhan  headshots
Yang-Tan Institute Announces Directors

Cartoons About Disability Will Educate Children

Cornell Chronicle
Familiarizing children with disability is the goal of a Northeast ADA Center video project launching this summer and aimed at students in kindergarten through third grade.
A cartoon created through the  Northeast ADA Center video project
Cartoons About Disability Will Educate Children

YTI Receives Grants, Refunding of ADA Center

Two federal funded projects will improve job opportunities for people with disabilities.
Young woman in a wheelchair talks with a co-worker
YTI Receives Grants, Refunding of ADA Center

Karhan Testifies Before NYS Assembly

Recommendations to improve employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities were provided to lawmakers by Yang-Tan Institute Co-Executive director Andrew Karhan.
Andrew Karnhan
Karhan Testifies Before NYS Assembly

ILR Employees Recognized

Staff and faculty were recognized at the annual ILR Employee Recognition and Services Awards Friday.
Wide shot of ILR Building in Ithaca, NY
ILR Employees Recognized

Yang-Tan Institute Offers Inclusion Resources

What does workplace inclusion look like for people with disabilities? Experts at ILR provide information that can help build a positive culture.
Coworkers meet at a computer
Yang-Tan Institute Offers Inclusion Resources

Can My Boss Force Me Not to Wear a Face Mask at Work?

Wall Street Journal
Wendy Strobel Gower, program director at the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, says, “It comes down to: Does your company have an obligation to follow the guidance of federal and also state and local authorities?”
Can My Boss Force Me Not to Wear a Face Mask at Work?

New Book by ILR Disability Experts Published

Topics include "Bullying and Harassment of Employees with Disabilities."

Employment and Disability: Issues, Innovations and Opportunities
New Book by ILR Disability Experts Published

Embracing Neurodiversity

HR’s role in workplace inclusion of autism

Autism Awareness
Embracing Neurodiversity

Demystifying Disability Stats

Statistics
Demystifying Disability Stats

Building on Potential

Tech a promising frontier to employ people with disabilities: forum

Pat Romzek
Building on Potential

Advancing the Workplace

Yang-Tan forum highlights innovations for greater disability inclusion

"Technology Changes Everything" in NYC
Advancing the Workplace

Personal and Professional Passion

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Personal and Professional Passion

Autism Story Shared

Yang-Tan Institute hosts author of "Life, Animated"
Ron Suskind
Autism Story Shared

Yang-Tan Ties to Tech

Cornell Chronicle
Roosevelt Island and Cornell Tech families enjoy Community Day, Aug. 5, 2017.
Yang-Tan Ties to Tech

Combatting Stereotypes

Case of Yang-Tan research cited in brief filed with U.S. Supreme Court

Sarah von Schrader, Yang-Tan associate director of research
Combatting Stereotypes

Connecting People with Jobs

Cornell alum, staff, students team with community members to build software

David Brewer, Yang-Tan Institute extension associate
Connecting People with Jobs

ILR Joins Cornell Partners to Build Solutions

Cornell Chronicle
Jesse Winter
ILR Joins Cornell Partners to Build Solutions

Radical Collaboration

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Radical Collaboration

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