Wendy Strobel Gower

Wendy Strobel Gower is the Thomas P. Golden Executive Director at Cornell University’s K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In this role, she serves on the executive leadership committee of the Yang-Tan Institute.

Wendy’s professional work focuses on interpreting disability laws and regulations for application to workplace policy and practice, and on developing and testing innovative approaches to culture change in organizations as it relates to inclusion of people with disabilities.

Wendy is also the Project Director for the Northeast ADA Center, which is funded by the National Institute for Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, and she is the Co-Director of the Employer Assistance and Resource Network, which is funded by the Office of Disability Employment Policy.

Wendy holds a Master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).