Join The Advocacy Project for an empowering and conversational panel designed especially for first-generation students at Cornell! Hear directly from upper-level first-gen students as they share real stories, practical advice, and lessons learned about navigating academics, campus life, and community at Cornell.

This event is a chance to connect, ask questions, and gain insights before heading to the Trailblazer Resource Fair right after. Whether you’re looking for tips on balancing classes, finding support, or just building confidence in your Cornell journey, this session is the perfect place to start.

Date: Friday, November 7, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Willard Straight Hall Room 414
Hosted by: The Advocacy Project at Cornell

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. All first-generation students are welcome!

It has been a year since the unprecedented Dobbs v. Jackson decision that struck down Roe v. Wade. Since then, student groups, law students, legal professionals, and prominent legal organizations have been incredibly active in on-the-ground activism endeavors to defend the right to reproductive and bodily autonomy. Perhaps no group has been more instrumental in education-based and legal-based advocacy than the Center for Reproductive Rights. On Friday, September 15th at 4 PM, our CEO will sit down with Hannah Tennies, a Senior Program Coordinator, and Rabia Muqaddam, a Senior Staff Attorney and Cornell Alumna, and learn about the work that they do at the Center, what the Center’s work has been like since Dobbs, and how we can get involved in the reproductive justice movement. Click the form here to register for the event!

A small cohort of AdPro members will be traveling to Buffalo, NY in partnership with the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab in mid-March. They will meet with the Partnership for Public Good, a community-based think tank working to build a more just, sustainable, and culturally vibrant world through coalition building. Students will participate in a policy advocacy workshop and engage in different community based advocacy endeavors. Then, they will bring this knowledge back to campus to build new resources and host a walk-through symposium to expose their fellow Cornellians to these skills.

The Cornell Advocacy Project is excited to host three speakers to highlight incorporating advocacy into your career.

Our speakers are three professionals who have incorporated advocacy into their highly successful career paths. Cathy Creighton is the director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lad and a former leading labor lawyer. Kenneth Roberts is a Government Professor who has been a part of movements across the world. Finally, Aubryn Sidle is a Global Development Professor who works at the intersection of community-driven development, gender, and education.

In an event collaborated with and co-sponsored by the Cornell College of Computing and Information Science (CIS) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office, the Advocacy Project will lead a workshop dedicated to mindfulness in advocacy. Participants will partake in activities revolving around calming the physical body, journaling as a means to reflect on advocacy experiences, learning about empathy and active listening from EARS collaborators (Empathy, Assistance, and Referral Service), and discussing ways to cope with burnout and mental health concerns in advocacy.

A follow up to the successful to the APO 101: What is Advocacy workshop, APO 201 strives to provide a deeper understanding of advocacy in volunteerism and day-to-day situations college students may find themselves in. Through an informational presentation and interactive roleplaying, members of the community service fraternity will develop solid advocacy action plans, ready to be put to use.