Lara Skinner

Lara Skinner is the Executive Director of The Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell and Chair of the institute’s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative. Her research, writing, and labor education work focuses on the engagement of workers and labor unions on issues of sustainability, climate protection, and economic alternatives. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2010 and began her career in labor working with Oregon’s Farmworkers Union (Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste), the University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center, and as an active member of the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, Local 3544. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2010.