Biography
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Ebru Kardan is the senior director of communications and strategic inititatives at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she has been for the last 10 years. As an original staff member of the UMass Amherst Office of Equity and Inclusion in it inception in 2017, she and her colleagues have seen many changes and shifts in the DEI campus landscape, from the rise of #BlackLivesMatter, the impacts of COVID, global emergencies and wars, and shifts in campus and national leadership.