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Sejal Mehta joins South Arts board
South Arts seeks to empower artists, organizations, and communities while also expanding access to arts and culture.
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Sejal Mehta appointed to South Arts Board / Image - South Arts/website
Sejal Mehta, an Indian American lawyer and arts advocate, has joined the Board of Directors of South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization that empowers artists, organizations, and communities while enhancing access to art and culture.
An arts enthusiast, Mehta serves on the boards of International Focus of North Carolina and the North Carolina Arts Council. She has previously served on the boards of Raleigh Little Theater and Raleigh Review.
Mehta has worked on the fiction staff of the Raleigh Review and has helped produce short films and commercials in both New York and the Triangle. She also worked as a contract attorney for Duke Energy, an attorney for the New York Medical Examiner's Office, and a prosecutor in New York City's Queens District Attorney's Office.
She graduated from NYU with a BA in Political Science and Government and a JD from Northeastern School of Law. Her husband, North Carolina State Senator, Jay Chaudhuri, and their two teenage children, as well as their golden retriever Lincoln, live in Raleigh, North Carolina.
South Arts supports artists and groups through a diverse portfolio of grants, fellowships, and programs because it "believes that the arts elevate the region, increasing connectedness and inspiring meaningful change in the process." It does so in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts and the State Arts Agencies of various states with additional funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The nonprofit also supports cross-sector collaborations between artists and organizations that touch areas of life such as healthcare, ageing and education. It offers fellowships to artists, allowing them to continue their lifelong learning, create new work, and prosper while calling the region "home."
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