Miriam Frank is a M.S. student at the ILR school in the Department of Global Labor and Work and is the Emerson Fellow. Her practice and research focuses on the influence of peace processes on institutional social protection for workers.

Frank is interested in labor relations systems and in the intersection of workers’ rights and war, particularly in the government's role in providing social protections to workers in the transition from war to peace.

Prior to Cornell, she worked extensively for worker protection and environmental policy in Jerusalem, New York and Gondar.