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Today, we will talk about the importance and value of diversity in our social networks.

I'm Matt Abrahams, and I teach strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Welcome to Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.

Today, I am super excited to be joined by Adina Sterling,

who is an associate professor of organizational behavior at Stanford GSB.

Adina studies the causes and consequences of human relationships and organizations and markets,

and she teaches a popular elective class called Equity by Design and runs a lab by the same name.

Welcome, Adina. I'm super excited to get a chance to talk with you.

Thanks, Matt. It's great to be here. Yes, well, thanks for being here.

So let's go ahead and get started.

A lot of your work focuses on social networks.

For many of us, social networks refer to applications like Facebook or Twitter and LinkedIn.

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