Diane Mehta

Brooklyn, NY USA
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Professional Experience

I'm a versatile editor, writer, and strategist who is highly tuned into a global discussion of ideas and issues. I've developed keen insights into how globalism has changed the ways we work, write, innovate, lead, and interact. I'm interested in innnovation and design, developing countries, literature by women, social anthropology, conflict situations, women leaders, feminism and sexual/reproductive health, and the unintended consequences of globalism in culture, identity, and language.

Expertise

Editor
25 Years
Writer
25 Years
Other, Specify
6 Years

Specialty

Books & Literature
20 Years
Business (general)
12 Years
Technology
15 Years

Industries


Marketing (firm) - Small to mid-sized corp. cl
2 Years
Magazine - Trade magazines/publications (B2B)
7 Years
Book Publishing Consumer
6 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

25 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Inc magazine (3-5), Fast Company (10+), Peppercomm (1-2)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

ReD Associates (consultant) (3-5), Latitude (1-2)

Other Work History

Staff jobs at Random House, various online and print advertising agencies, trade magazines, Guernica magazine, VIDA, The American Museum of Natural History, and environmental agencies.

Technical Skills

Can do or learn anything.

Foreign Language Skills

Some French, Italian, Latin, Hindi, but not enough to converse anymore.

Computer Skills

Word, Excel, html, all CMS programs, really anything except hardcore programming.

References

Available on request.

Awards

Advertising award for helping build Dell.com's first revenue-generating website.

Associations

PEN America and VIDA women in literary arts.

Showcase

Writing Samples

Prize & Prejudice
(Foreign Policy 2/3/2015)
For Foreign Policy magazine's inaugural arts column, I probed whether international awards dilute literature, presenting three views of what happens when the English language becomes the de facto standard for literature. I interviewed Tim Parks, Robin Desser, and J.M. Coetzee.
Kings Have Adorned Her
(The Paris Review 11/7/2013)
I wrote about the history of India's Jews, from David Sassoon to Sulochana, to coincide with the 2013 anniversary of the South Bombay terrorist attack by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.
Anybody Home?
(The New York Times 8/15/2014)
I wrote about Mary Lawson's story of a dysfunctional family in a northern Ontario logging town, for the NYTBR.
Creature Teacher
(Fast Company 8/30/2009)
I profiled Alex Alvarez, a special effects guru for the film and gaming industries, and founder of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects.