At the “Good Jobs for All?” summit co-sponsored by the ILR School’s Ithaca Co-Lab and Legal Assistance of Western New York, 30 community members gathered to discuss strategies for helping local people who are unemployed.

Ithaca has the highest income inequality in Upstate New York, said ILR Research Professor Ian Greer, M.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’05, Co-Lab director, said at the Dec. 2 meeting at the Cherry Arts Space in Ithaca. He teaches “The Fight Against Unemployment,” a course supported by the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

Jana Alzayer, A&S ’24, took the course and has continued to be involved with the Co-Lab. “I’ve gotten so much exposure to the community that’s been so valuable. I want to be a member of a community to help solve problems. I want to be part of that change.” Alzayer plans to apply her Co-Lab experiences to a career as a civil rights and employment lawyer in Saudi Arabia, her home country. 

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Mary Catt is the director of communications at the ILR School.