As research director at the ILR School's Buffalo Co-Lab, Russell "Rusty" Weaver builds tools to help communities, policymakers and individuals make informed decisions about issues such as child care, wage inequality, evictions and broadband access.
His collaborations with colleagues across ILR include New York at Work reports and a Feb. 6 webinar on how privatization and budget cuts have impacted New York state's mental health care workforce and service quality. A faculty affiliate of the school's Center for Applied Research and Work, Weaver leads ILR's annual Empire State Report.
"Rusty's approach to the democratization of data and research is innovative and pioneering," said Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. '08, the David M. Cohen Professor of Labor Relations, Law and History and senior associate dean for ILR Outreach and sponsored research. "His combination of rigorous methodology with a commitment to broad access is essential to the ILR School's efforts to link research and practice in meaningful ways. His mapping tools, in particular, are a powerful vehicle through which to shape individual decision making, as well as policymaking."
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Sandi Mulconry is a freelance writer.
