In Spring 2025, we interviewed 22 racialized academic librarians across Canada to understand how EDI initiatives are perceived by racialized librarians, and how EDI has affected their work. This presentation shares the results of that research and will cover methods to embed the ethics of care into research design (such as data agency), as well as major themes and generational differences that have emerged from the interviews. We will explore how EDI as a policy is perceived by racialized academic librarians and how it has impacted their professional development and workplaces in both positive and negative ways.