Dr. Das honored by Investment News

Dr. Nandita Das, DSU associate professor of finance has been honored by Investment News as one of its 2018 Diversity & Inclusion Lifetime Achievement awardees.

Dr. Das – who has been a DSU College of Business faculty member since 2010 – was honored by the publication as a “See It, Be It Role Model” who has at least 10 years of experience in the finance industry.

The publication will formally present Dr. Das with the honor during its Oct. 9 Excellence In Diversity and Inclusion Awards Ceremony in New York City.

Investment News said the following about Dr. Das:

After living in three countries and changing careers, Nandita Das thought she had the credentials to be successful in America fairly quickly. She soon realized she didn’t because she could not understand the maze that is American finance. So she became a financial adviser and founded her firm to help other immigrant professionals secure their dreams for their families.

Ms. Das is also a full-time associate professor and director of the CFP Board’s Registered Financial Planning Program at Delaware State University, a Historically Black University.

If she sees a need that isn’t being met, she’ll develop a program to meet those needs. One example is the university’s Financial Planning Program, which she calls her “baby with a 26-month gestation period.”

She calls her students her “kids” because she is keenly aware that she often provides the only moral support they have during their education, as many are first-generation college attendees. When she takes students to professional conferences, they are often intimidated because they don’t see anyone who looks like them.

She tells them, “Well, when I came to this country, nobody looked like me, either.”