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Real Woman - Winter 2021
Listening to My Body May Have Saved My Life
Doctors at Capital Health—and my own instincts—led to a hysterectomy last fall that may have spared me from cancer later in life.
At 7:30 in the morning on October 28, I was laying on a gurney in the operating room at Capital Health, trying to breathe through my anxiety. As I joked with Harry, an operating room nurse, about what a mess he made of my hair in the hospital-issued hair net, I couldn’t help but think how far I was from where I thought I’d be at that moment.
Real Woman - Summer 2020
The Future of Racial Equity
That 8:46 minutes was truly horrifying.
When I watched George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, I felt completely overcome. I know I’m not alone in being triggered by the degradation of human life. It brings me back to the adversity I have faced as a Ugandan refugee, an Indian woman, and a lesbian. But while I am feeling all these feelings about Black Lives Matter, I understand that this moment—this movement—is about racism toward Black Americans.
Real Woman - Winter 2020
Two Letters and Many Life-Changing Revelations
I was looking for a way to kick off a new decade, and what started as a little letter to my younger self got real when she wrote back.
Thrive Global - April 2019
Masters of the Turnaround: “The people who matter will love you unconditionally and respect your strength” with Amita Mehta and Jason Crowley
As part of Crowley’s series about prominent entrepreneurs and executives that overcame adversity to achieve great success, he interviewed Amita Mehta, a passionate and dynamic business strategist with more than two decades of financial services experience.
Watermark Webinar - June 2019
Fostering Innovation and Inclusion Through a Diverse Workforce
Diversity is a key driver of innovation and is a critical component of being successful on a global scale. Senior executives are recognizing that a diverse set of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds are crucial to innovation and the development of new ideas. Diversity unlocks innovation and drives market growth. In this session, Amita provides an executive coaching session where she takes the audience through her personal experience as a refugee to the VP of Prudential. She shows data and statistics around why executive leaders need to embrace the power of differences in order to establish a culture in which all employees feel welcome to contribute ideas. She discusses how diversity can be the human resource that sets you apart from the competition, allows you to be more creative and more dynamic.
Real Woman - Summer 2018 cover story
Amita Mehta is Living Her Truth—And Loving It
After decades struggling to overcome her differences, this 47-year-old woman is embracing it, including her Indian heritage and being out as a gay woman. And she’s never been happier.
Etownian - February 2019 cover story
Alumna Lives Authentically, Launches Brand to Help Individuals, Companies
The odds were stacked against Amita Mehta to have a successful career in any field, much less one in male-dominated financial services. She had been expelled from her home in Uganda at the hands of a dictator, and she grew up in poverty as a refugee with her parents and three brothers in Lancaster, PA.
Rise - December 2018
When My Family Saw the Real Me for the First Time
It’s probably the oldest cliché in the book that Thanksgiving through New Years is the hardest time for people. For some, spending time with family is a huge challenge—it can be alienating and even depressing.
But my family is amazing, and I am proud to be a Mehta. We survived persecution at the hands of a dictator when we fled Africa as refugees more than 40 years ago. We tried to hold onto our identity as Indians and Hindus while still embracing the American dream. My three brothers—who are strewn around the country from Hawaii to Florida—would go to bat for me any day. However, this Thanksgiving was the first time we all planned to be together, and I felt overcome by anxiety as the week approached.
