Shannon Buffum is Associate General Counsel in Cornell’s Office of General Counsel, where she provides legal guidance to the university on issues related to labor and employment law.  Shannon joined Cornell in 2017 after practicing labor and employment and education law in a law firm.  Shannon is an alumna (’05) of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations as well as Notre Dame Law School.  Shannon is married and has an Australian Shepard, Cricket, as well as two rescue cats, Kimchi and Momo.  She is an upstate New York native and loves to ski and hike.