Karen Armstrong is Director of Penn State Outreach and Online Education’s Office of Inclusion, Equity & Diversity. She is a clinically trained multicultural, LGBTQA+, disability, and special populations counselor with extensive experience in higher education programming and professional development for faculty, staff, and students. She has experience working with higher education leaders to help implement and expand inclusion, equity, and diversity throughout campus organizational structures, policies, strategic plans, and programs. Armstrong is a graduate of Hofstra University with a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Bridgeport. At Penn State, she co-chairs the Commission for Women, assisted in establishing a university-wide, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) professional development program, and partnered in the development of a comprehensive university-wide DEI portfolio on behalf of the president and presented to the Board of Trustees. Armstrong is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Denver in the higher education leadership program, earning a Doctor of Education in Leadership for Educational Equity, Higher Education.