Cathy Creighton

Cathy Creighton is the Director of Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab. Cathy is a graduate of Cornell University’s ILR School (class 1987), and later attended Boston University School of Law. Cathy began her career as field attorney with the NLRB and then entered private practice where she co-founded a firm exclusively representing labor unions. In 2021, Cathy pivoted to return to her alma mater as the Director of Cornell University’s ILR office in Buffalo, and concentrates on labor education for the rank and file labor movement, labor and civic education for the public, and social justice-based community engaged learning for Cornell University undergraduate students. An active member of the labor movement and civic community, Ms. Creighton is the Ethics Officer for the United Auto Workers, a member of the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance, Board Member and recording secretary for the Western New York Law Center, NY Governor appointment to Director of the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority, member of the American Association of University Professors, and previously served as Cornell University Council Member, Board of Directors of the National AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee, Board member of Coalition for Economic Justice, Chair of the Buffalo Living Wage Commission, among others.