EQUITY IN FOCUS 

Our first webinar will explore how equity in job creation is defined – with a focus on job growth through the current expansion of infrastructure investment. Central to any definition are questions about identifying the policy outcomes and how to measure these.

On February 24th, 12:30 - 2 pm, join us as Andrea Flynn, Senior Director, Insight Center, discusses current research on equity in job creation in the construction industry with Raahi Reddy, Director of Metro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program, and Kelly Kupcak, Executive Director, Oregon Tradeswomen, who will present on how they have successfully positioned equity at the center of job creation initiatives in the building trades in Oregon. Labor Leader, Leah Rambo, will round out the discussion with insights from the building trades.

NYS Department of Labor Commissioner, Roberta Reardon, and U.S. Department of Labor Policy Advisor in the Office of the Secretary, Katelyn Walker Mooney will discuss the critical role state and federal leaders can play in driving equity in job creation in the construction industry forward. The webinar will close with a discussion between panelists and participants on how local and state innovations can be adapted and replicated at a larger scale to ensure a just economic recovery for everyone. 

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The Worker Institute @ ILR-Cornell will release its Equity in Focus Report which captures lessons learned from our partners in the field driving innovation in job creation for women and workers of color. This report is a compilation of key findings to emerge out of our one-year webinar series conducted in partnership with the U. S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
 
 The Equity in Focus Report explores how best to prioritize gender and racial equity as core components of a strong and just economic recovery at a time of substantial federal investment in job creation in the child care economy, the clean energy economy and the building trades. Long-standing inequality, made worse by the pandemic, accelerates the need to envision job creation through the perspective of an equity lens as states and municipalities across the country invest in Bipartisan Infrastructure law funding.
 
You are invited to join us for an in-person convening, at the ILR Conference Center in New York City, to discuss the findings of the report. We will present lessons learned from the series and discuss next steps needed for a long-term agenda to ensure sustained equity in job creation that increases opportunities for women and workers of color. Participants will hear from leaders who are working on gender and racial equity in the trades and non-traditional jobs and learn from leaders tackling the economic inequality in our care economy. Industry leaders, researchers, and other key stakeholders will discuss ways to simultaneously raise wages for the women-dominated workforce while breaking down barriers for women in higher-paid male-dominated sectors.  
 
For participants who have registered to attend in-person, on-site check-in will open at 9:30 A.M. with the program starting promptly at 10:00 A.M. Please bring a photo ID and arrive at 9:30 A.M. to make your way through security (using the Entrance located at 570 Lexington Avenue, corner of 51st Street) and to pick up your registration badge.

February 24th, 2022 
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM EST

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Speakers

ALEXANDER COLVIN

Dean, ILR School, Cornell University 

IAlexander Colvin, Ph.D. '99, is the Kenneth F. Kahn '69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman '75, 'MS '76 Professor of Conflict Resolution at the ILR School, Cornell University. He is an associate member of the Cornell Law Faculty. His research and teaching focuses on employment dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on procedures in nonunion workplaces and the impact of the legal environment on organizations. His current research projects include empirical investigations of employment arbitration and a cross-national study of labor and employment law change in the Anglo-American countries. Read more. 

WENDY CHUN-HOON

Director, Women's Bureau, Department of Labor 

Wendy Chun-Hoon serves as the 20th director of the Women’s Bureau, appointed by President Biden on February 1, 2021. Wendy is skilled at coalition building, bridging strategy across grassroots community organizing, and public sector policy making at state and national levels. She has held senior positions in Maryland state government and private philanthropy, overseeing large-scale, results-driven initiatives for worker and family economic justice. Read more.

A Webinar Series Co-Hosted by US Department of Labor–Women’s Bureau & The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR

This webinar series will bring together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, unions, philanthropy, and advocates to share current research and praxis that address the need for a just economic recovery that reverses long-existent inequalities in job creation and access. The current crisis of inequality, made worse by the intersecting crisis of the pandemic and its impact on women and people of color, accelerates the need to envision job creation through the perspective of an equity lens.

Unprecedented levels of public investment to spur economic recovery after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic creates an historic opportunity to dismantle structural barriers and achieve equity and inclusion in economic development through high-quality jobs access for women and people of color. The question this webinar series will explore is how best to achieve equity goals. Drawing on existing models of practice from around the United States, this series will show how local and state actors have successfully implemented equity and job creation.

The goal of this series is to showcase current research on equity and its application to spur the upscaling of effective policy innovation at the state and local level at a time of record levels of economic investment by the federal government.  

The ILR School of Cornell University is the leading college of the applied social sciences focusing on work, employment, and labor policy issues and practices of national and international significance.

FIRST WEBINAR: What is Equity? 

FUTURE WEBINARS:

Job creation for a just society, report launch

ANNE MARIE BRADY

Senior Extension Associate - Director of Research for Worker Rights and Equity, The Worker Institute 

Anne Marie Brady is the Senior Extension Associate - Director of Research for Worker Rights and Equity effective Dec 1st, 2021. Anne Marie holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy Research from the London School of Economics. She is trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods of social and labor market policy research and has a 10 -year record of designing research projects with a variety of stakeholders in the policy-making process. Read more.

Raahi Reddy is the Director of Metro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program. Her team is responsible for ensuring Metro’s programs, investments and internal practices lead with a racial equity lens to effectively advance equity in the region. This work includes launching and leading the groundbreaking Construction Careers Pathways Project that is bringing together numerous public agencies and stakeholders in the Portland metro region to jointly plan, invest and support a new generation of diverse workers in the construction sector.  Read more.

RAAHI REDDY

LEAH RAMBO

Director of Training, Smart SM, Local Union 28 

Leah Rambo began her career as a sheet metal apprentice in 1988. In 2011 she was appointed as first woman to serve as Director of Training for SMART Local 28 and continues to work in this capacity. Her high energy and dedication have helped to attract and retain an increasing number of women. Local 28 has increased their percentage of female from 3% in 2011 to 13% in 2019. As Director of Training, Ms. Rambo has been responsible for the training of over 3,000 Local 28’s apprentices and active members.. Read more.

KELLY KUPCAK

Executive Director, Oregon Tradeswomen

ANDREA FLYNN

Senior Director, Insight Center

Andrea Flynn is Senior Director at the Insight Center. Prior to joining Insight, she spent eight years at the Roosevelt Institute, where she was most recently the Director of Health Equity. She is the co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She frequently writes and speaks about the race and gender dimensions of economic inequality, reproductive health and justice, and health equity.. Read more.

Kelly grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where early on she realized the critical importance of speaking out against injustice and wrote her first letter to the editor of the local newspaper in the third grade. After raising her sons as a single mom, working as a union heavy equipment operator, and working as an advocate for women for almost two decades, she relocated to the Pacific Northwest to serve as Oregon Tradeswomen’s Executive Director in 2017.  Read more.

Agenda

• Welcoming Remarks:
  
  
• Research Presentations 
  
  
• Discussion
  
  
• Audience Q&A
  

ROBERTA REARDON

New York State Secretary of Labor

New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon was appointed in October 2015 to oversee the Department’s more than 3,300 employees. On June 15, 2016, Commissioner Reardon was unanimously confirmed by the New York State Senate. Commissioner Reardon graduated from the Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations School’s New York State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wyoming. She is a Worker Institute Fellow at Cornell University and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Actors Fund of America. Read more.

Director of Metro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program

• Webinar Two: April 2022  
  ·  Climate/Green Jobs Creation
  
  Webinar Three: June 2022
  ·  Care Economy Jobs
   
  Webinar Four with In-Person Reception
   Labor Day, September 2022

Speakers

ALEXANDER COLVIN

Dean, ILR School, Cornell University 

IAlexander Colvin, Ph.D. '99, is the Kenneth F. Kahn '69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman '75, 'MS '76 Professor of Conflict Resolution at the ILR School, Cornell University. He is an associate member of the Cornell Law Faculty. His research and teaching focuses on employment dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on procedures in nonunion workplaces and the impact of the legal environment on organizations. His current research projects include empirical investigations of employment arbitration and a cross-national study of labor and employment law change in the Anglo-American countries. Read more. 

WENDY CHUN-HOON

Director, Women's Bureau, Department of Labor 

Wendy Chun-Hoon serves as the 20th director of the Women’s Bureau, appointed by President Biden on February 1, 2021. Wendy is skilled at coalition building, bridging strategy across grassroots community organizing, and public sector policy making at state and national levels. She has held senior positions in Maryland state government and private philanthropy, overseeing large-scale, results-driven initiatives for worker and family economic justice. Read more.

ANNE MARIE BRADY

Senior Extension Associate - Director of Research for Worker Rights and Equity, The Worker Institute 

Anne Marie Brady is the Senior Extension Associate - Director of Research for Worker Rights and Equity effective Dec 1st, 2021. Anne Marie holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy Research from the London School of Economics. She is trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods of social and labor market policy research and has a 10 -year record of designing research projects with a variety of stakeholders in the policy-making process. Read more.

Raahi Reddy is the Director of Metro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program. Her team is responsible for ensuring Metro’s programs, investments and internal practices lead with a racial equity lens to effectively advance equity in the region. This work includes launching and leading the groundbreaking Construction Careers Pathways Project that is bringing together numerous public agencies and stakeholders in the Portland metro region to jointly plan, invest and support a new generation of diverse workers in the construction sector.  Read more.

RAAHI REDDY

LEAH RAMBO

Director of Training, Smart SM, Local Union 28 

Leah Rambo began her career as a sheet metal apprentice in 1988. In 2011 she was appointed as first woman to serve as Director of Training for SMART Local 28 and continues to work in this capacity. Her high energy and dedication have helped to attract and retain an increasing number of women. Local 28 has increased their percentage of female from 3% in 2011 to 13% in 2019. As Director of Training, Ms. Rambo has been responsible for the training of over 3,000 Local 28’s apprentices and active members.. Read more.

ANDREA FLYNN

Senior Director, Insight Center

Andrea Flynn is Senior Director at the Insight Center. Prior to joining Insight, she spent eight years at the Roosevelt Institute, where she was most recently the Director of Health Equity. She is the co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She frequently writes and speaks about the race and gender dimensions of economic inequality, reproductive health and justice, and health equity.. Read more.

Kelly grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where early on she realized the critical importance of speaking out against injustice and wrote her first letter to the editor of the local newspaper in the third grade. After raising her sons as a single mom, working as a union heavy equipment operator, and working as an advocate for women for almost two decades, she relocated to the Pacific Northwest to serve as Oregon Tradeswomen’s Executive Director in 2017.  Read more.

ROBERTA REARDON

New York State Secretary of Labor

New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon was appointed in October 2015 to oversee the Department’s more than 3,300 employees. On June 15, 2016, Commissioner Reardon was unanimously confirmed by the New York State Senate. Commissioner Reardon graduated from the Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations School’s New York State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wyoming. She is a Worker Institute Fellow at Cornell University and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Actors Fund of America. Read more.

Director of Metro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program

KELLY KUPCAK

Executive Director, Oregon Tradeswomen

Speakers

ALEXANDER COLVIN

Dean, ILR School, Cornell University 

Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. '99, is the Kenneth F. Kahn '69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman '75, 'MS '76 Professor of Conflict Resolution at the ILR School, Cornell University. He is an associate member of the Cornell Law Faculty. His research and teaching focuses on employment dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on procedures in nonunion workplaces and the impact of the legal environment on organizations. His current research projects include empirical investigations of employment arbitration and a cross-national study of labor and employment law change in the Anglo-American countries. Read more. 

WENDY CHUN-HOON

Director, Women's Bureau, Department of Labor 

Wendy Chun-Hoon serves as the 20th director of the Women’s Bureau, appointed by President Biden on February 1, 2021. Ms. Chun-Hoon is skilled at coalition building, bridging strategy across grassroots community organizing, and public sector policy making at state and national levels. She has held senior positions in Maryland state government and private philanthropy, overseeing large-scale, results-driven initiatives for worker and family economic justice. Read more. 

ANNE MARIE BRADY

Senior Extension Associate - Director of Research for Worker Rights and Equity, The Worker Institute 

Anne Marie Brady is the Senior Extension Associate - Director of Research for Worker Rights and Equity for the Worker Institute. Dr. Brady holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy Research from the London School of Economics. She is trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods of social and labor market policy research and has a 10 -year record of designing research projects with a variety of stakeholders in the policy-making process. Read more.

Raahi Reddy is the Director of Metro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program. Her team is responsible for ensuring Metro’s programs, investments and internal practices lead with a racial equity lens to effectively advance equity in the region. This work includes launching and leading the groundbreaking Construction Careers Pathways Project that is bringing together numerous public agencies and stakeholders in the Portland metro region to jointly plan, invest and support a new generation of diverse workers in the construction sector.  Read more.

RAAHI REDDY

LEAH RAMBO

Director of Training, Smart SM, Local Union 28 

Leah Rambo began her career as a sheet metal apprentice in 1988. In 2011 she was appointed as first woman to serve as Director of Training for SMART Local 28 and continues to work in this capacity. Her high energy and dedication have helped to attract and retain an increasing number of women. Local 28 has increased their percentage of female from 3% in 2011 to 13% in 2019. As Director of Training, Ms. Rambo has been responsible for the training of over 3,000 Local 28’s apprentices and active members. Read more.

ANDREA FLYNN

Senior Director, Insight Center

Andrea Flynn is Senior Director at the Insight Center. Prior to joining Insight, she spent eight years at the Roosevelt Institute, where she was most recently the Director of Health Equity. She is the co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She frequently writes and speaks about the race and gender dimensions of economic inequality, reproductive health and justice, and health equity. Read more.

ROBERTA REARDON

New York State Secretary of Labor

Director of Metro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program

KELLY KUPCAK

Executive Director, Oregon Tradeswomen

Kelly Kupcak grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where early on she realized the critical importance of speaking out against injustice and wrote her first letter to the editor of the local newspaper in the third grade. After raising her sons as a single mom, working as a union heavy equipment operator, and working as an advocate for women for almost two decades, she relocated to the Pacific Northwest to serve as Oregon Tradeswomen’s Executive Director in 2017.  Read more.

New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon was appointed in October 2015 to oversee the Department’s more than 3,300 employees. On June 15, 2016, Commissioner Reardon was unanimously confirmed by the New York State Senate. Commissioner Reardon graduated from the Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations School’s New York State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wyoming. She is a Worker Institute Fellow at Cornell University and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Actors Fund of America. Read more.

KATELYN WALKER MOONEY

Policy Advisor at the Department of Labor in the Office of the Secretary

Katelyn Walker Mooney is a Policy Advisor at the Department of Labor in the Office of the Secretary. Walker Mooney is leading the Department’s Good Jobs Initiative, which is focused on providing critical information to workers, employers, and government agencies as they work to improve job quality. She recently served as the Associate General Counsel for the Committee on Education and Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives. Read more.

KATELYN WALKER MOONEY

Policy Advisor at the Department of Labor in the Office of the Secretary

Overview

APRIL 19, 2023

April 19, 2023
10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.

Cornell University, ILR School
NYC Conference Center
570 Lexington Ave, 12th floor
New York, NY 10022

If you have any questions, please contact:

Anne Marie Brady: ab2532@cornell.edu

A Webinar Series Co-Hosted by US Department of Labor–Women’s Bureau & The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR

This webinar series will bring together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, unions, philanthropy, and advocates to share current research and praxis that address the need for a just economic recovery that reverses long-existent inequalities in job creation and access. The current crisis of inequality, made worse by the intersecting crisis of the pandemic and its impact on women and people of color, accelerates the need to envision job creation through the perspective of an equity lens.

Unprecedented levels of public investment to spur economic recovery after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic creates an historic opportunity to dismantle structural barriers and achieve equity and inclusion in economic development through high-quality jobs access for women and people of color. The question this webinar series will explore is how best to achieve equity goals. Drawing on existing models of practice from around the United States, this series will show how local and state actors have successfully implemented equity and job creation.

The goal of this series is to showcase current research on equity and its application to spur the upscaling of effective policy innovation at the state and local level at a time of record levels of economic investment by the federal government.  

Previous events

Feb 24, 2022
Job Creation for a Just Society

We explore how equity in job creation is defined – with a focus on job growth through the current expansion of infrastructure investment. 

April 26, 2022
Investing in Childcare Careers

We explore the challenges of the childcare industry and highlight local examples that are improving access to child care while also raising wages for child care workers.

June 29, 2022
Building a Diverse and Inclusive Clean Energy Workforce

How the U.S. can tackle the climate crisis and create high-quality union jobs for women and frontline communities of color that suffer the most from climate change, pollution and historic inequities.

Speakers

A Webinar Series Co-Hosted by US Department of Labor–Women’s Bureau & The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR

This webinar series will bring together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, unions, philanthropy, and advocates to share current research and praxis that address the need for a just economic recovery that reverses long-existent inequalities in job creation and access. The current crisis of inequality, made worse by the intersecting crisis of the pandemic and its impact on women and people of color, accelerates the need to envision job creation through the perspective of an equity lens.

Unprecedented levels of public investment to spur economic recovery after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic creates an historic opportunity to dismantle structural barriers and achieve equity and inclusion in economic development through high-quality jobs access for women and people of color. The question this webinar series will explore is how best to achieve equity goals. Drawing on existing models of practice from around the United States, this series will show how local and state actors have successfully implemented equity and job creation.

The goal of this series is to showcase current research on equity and its application to spur the upscaling of effective policy innovation at the state and local level at a time of record levels of economic investment by the federal government.  

Agenda

September 22, 2022

Equity in Focus Summit

The US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau and The Worker Institute @ ILR-Cornell are co-hosting a day-long conversation on how prioritizing gender and racial equity promotes a strong and just economy.

This is a public event, which will be photographed and filmed and/or otherwise recorded. Your registration for this event constitutes your consent to such photography, filming, and/or recording and to any use, in any and all media. 

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