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Associate General Counsel in Cornell’s Office of General Counsel

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.

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Assistant Professor in Africana Studies

Michell Chresfield is an Assistant Professor in Africana Studies where her research and teaching focuses on Black and Indigenous histories, the history of science and medicine, and the history of racial formation and identity making in twentieth century America. Dr.

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Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education

Bonnie is the Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education where she serves as the chief of staff to Vice Provost Nishii and oversees several areas in the vice provost’s portfolio such as the Health Professions Advising Center and the Cornell Student Engagement Initiative.

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Associate Professor Information Science

Chris Csíkszentmihályi is an artist, technologist, humanist, and designer. He combined his early work producing hip hop with technology to create the world's first scratching robot, touring from Nagoya to Berlin, and receiving death threats from DJs who feared replacement. He has built products for dystopian futures and robots to automate protests.

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Assistant Vice President for Student Health and Wellbeing

Julie Edwards is the Assistant Vice President for Student Health and Wellbeing. She oversees Cornell Health and campus-wide health and wellbeing initiatives. Julie leads Cornell’s Health Promoting Campus efforts and is continually looking for ways to engage students in providing feedback around what is working well and what areas of growth exist.

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Graduate Resident Fellow

Hi! This is my third year at Becker as a GRF. I'm excited to see everyone who's returning and just as excited to meet new Becker people. I like sailing, herbal tea, painting, cooking, gluten free desserts, and playing video games. I'm a PhD student in Applied Economics and Management and I study environmental economics and non-market valuation of water quality.

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Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics

Tom Fox '71 moved into an old West Campus freshman dorm (thankfully now removed from the landscape) in 1967, and lived in Baker Tower the following year.  During four years at Cornell he learned to love hockey, genetics, and Ithaca, among other things.

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CALS Office of Academic Programs

Sally is a member of the Inclusive Academic Advising team in CALS and in her former lives taught biology, science and english as a foreign language to many many students and student teachers in the UK, Australia and the US in addition to raised two fabulous young people with her husband Ian.

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Lecturer and Pedagogy Specialist with Cornell’s Intergroup Dialogue Project

Jazlin Gomez Garner (she/her) is a Lecturer and Pedagogy Specialist with Cornell’s Intergroup Dialogue Project. On campus, she leads classes and co-curricular programs that build capacity in areas of human connection, social identity, intergroup communication, and strategic change.

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Director of Health Professions Advising

Rachel Goodfellow (she/her) is the Director of Health Professions Advising, where she leads a team of pre-health advisors and helps guide students through their journey to a diverse spectrum of health careers.