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Slack.com slash DHQ. Hey, hey, Vafam. It is Mandra back with another episode of Brown

Ambition. Today's guest, y'all, is incredibly special. I had the opportunity to speak with

today's guest last week. And I knew from that conversation that I was like, you have to

be on Brown Ambition. And this is how quickly I made it happen, okay? Within one week,

I have her on the show. And I am so excited to bring today's guest to you. Her name is

Diba Parshataman. She is, I don't even, you're gonna have to bear with me because this woman's

accolades and titles are just, they go on for miles and miles and miles. And I'm gonna

fight my own imposter syndrome and explain a little bit to y'all about who my new friend

Diba is, okay? Not only is Diba the co-founder of her own company called Information, which

provides brave, safe space for professional women of color to advance in their careers.

She is also a women in public policy program leader in practice at Harvard Kennedy School.

You may have heard of it. Prior to that, Diba spent more than 20 years in corporate America

at Deloitte. And she was the first Indian American woman to make partner in the company's

history, history. And with Diba's deep knowledge of what it means to be one of the first,

one of the few, one of the only. She wrote a beautiful book, which you guys have to go

pick up. It just was released earlier this month. Go find her new book. It's called

The First, The Few, The Only, How Women of Color Can Redefine Power In Corporate America.

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