Brown in Corporate America

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South Asians share what it’s like to work in Corporate America while having grown up with brown values: The cultural conflicts, the ideologies that don’t work anymore, and climbing the ladder in a white world.

Shivya Bansal

  • Jun 14, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • monthly NEW EPISODES
  • 29m AVG DURATION
  • 3 EPISODES


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Ep. 3: How a PhD student put "log kya kahenge" (what will people say) behind her, to follow her dreams

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2020 23:01


Hey hey! So good to have you back here. We have a website! brownincorporateamerica.org check it out! Today we have Geeticka who is currently a EECS PhD student at MIT. She shares with us her journey and how she had moved past "log kya kahenge", pushed past her self image issues, and followed her dreams. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How a fashion buyer navigates her corporate workplace as a brown person

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 16:32


Hi! Welcome to episode 2. Today we're talking with Harshali, who works as a buyer in the fashion industry in NYC. We discuss being the only brown person in the room and how she felt a sense of discomfort in that. More on the podcast.

“But my parents told me it’s not ok to boast about your own accomplishments!?”

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2019 49:29


Welcome to the very first episode of brown in corporate America! We like to discuss the challenges and experiences that come along with working in corporate America as a south Asian. Whether you grew up in South Asia or in America, we have all been taught behaviors that conflict with what flies in corporate America. So let’s talk about it. It’s basically chicken soul for the corporate brown soul

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