Katrina Nobles Receives ILR Teaching Award

At the recent ILR employee recognition ceremony Katrina Nobles, Institute Director of Conflict Programs, was honored with an Engaged Learning Teaching Award. 

Harry Katz, Director of the Scheinman Institute, noted “Katrina is deservedly recognized for her passionate and innovative efforts on behalf of her students.”

Nobles’ responsibilities at the Institute include designing curriculum, teaching on-campus credit-bearing courses, instructing professional and customized programs, and facilitating discussions for organizational workplace conflicts. 

On campus, she leads the campus mediation program, which includes a partnership with the Office of the Judicial Administrator to mediate minor code of conduct violations by students. The program includes a 4-credit course and a 2-credit course to train students to be peer mediators. These students then mediate actual code violation cases. 

In the private and not-for-profit sectors, Nobles has worked with multiple clients to provide facilitation among conflicted teams and departments. In this area, she has also designed and provided training regarding employee relations, collaborative problem solving, cross-cultural communication, performance management, unconscious bias, mediation, facilitation, diagnosing conflict, and leading difficult and heated conversations.

In other work, she has practiced mediation for several years, and prior to her employment at Cornell, Nobles was the Cortland County Coordinator for New Justice Mediation Services. During that time, she mediated hundreds of community, child custody/visitation, child support, and family disputes. Nobles holds a Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Engagement from Antioch University Midwest.