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Lynette Chappell-Williams

Location: Ithaca, NY
Phone: 607.255.3976
Fax: 607.255.7481
E-mail: lc75@cornell.edu
Assistant: Rose Braman, (w) 607.255.3976, (f) 607.255.7481
Web site: www.cornell.edu

EXPERTISE

Family Friendly Work Policies, Diversity in the Work Place

Current Positions

Director, Office of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality, Cornell University.

Previous Positions

Associate Vice President of Multicultural Programs and Director of Affirmative Action, Illinois Institute of Technology. Manager, EEO and Employment, Automobile Club of Michigan. Staff Attorney, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC. Judicial Law Clerk, U.S. Federal Appellate Court for the 4th Circuit, Richmond, VA.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, James Madison University. JD, Ohio State University School of Law.

Short Bio

Lynette Chappell-Williams is responsible for overseeing Cornell University's discrimination resolution program, developing and implementing the university's affirmative action program for staff and faculty, assisting in the development of a strategic plan for the university's diversity and inclusiveness initiative, and coordinating the university’s quality of life (work/life and work/family) initiative for staff and faculty employees.