NIKKI CARTER (MCGRUDER)
​Director of Diversity and Inclusion at MU Health Care

Nikki serves as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for MU Health Care, in Columbia, Missouri. Nikki leads MU Health Care's DEI efforts across its extensive network of hospitals and clinics.
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Prior to joining MU Health Care, Nikki led the Inclusive Impact Institute as its director and gave the community its first comprehensive organization dedicated to innovation, strategy, and solutions to issues of diversity and inclusion. Nikki earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Columbia College in Columbia, MO, a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and a Master of Arts in Human Resources Development from Webster University in St. Louis, MO. Nikki is currently pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Missouri with the goal of tying her research to her efforts to effect change in health care. 
Nikki is collaborating with 2D/fibers artist and Access Arts instructor, Tavia Sanza. Their project journey will be documented by talented filmmaker Megan Casady​!
TAVIA SANZA
Tavia Sanza was born in Florida in 1982. In 2005 she received a merit scholarship to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. There she explored her love of large environmental work. After earning her BFA she moved to New York City and worked various jobs in fashion, interior design, and education. In 2018 she moved to pursue her MFA at the University of Missouri. Recently she received a scholarship to Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg Tennessee, exhibited her work in Kansas City, and at the True/False film festival in Columbia Missouri. Her work with be on display in New York later this year. ​
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