Ms. Mehta completed her second MA in Religious Studies with a special focus on Jainism at Florida International University. Her Masters thesis on Jain Diaspora in the USA received the best thesis award for the 2016/17 academic year in the Department of Religious Studies, Florida International University. Mehta was also honored with Florida International University’s most prestigious World’s Ahead Graduate Award for the year 2016/17. Before coming to FIU Mehta completed her first MA in English Literature and a PhD in the field of Multicultural Education & Literature. She was a Fulbright Fellow (FLTA) at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2010. Her current research is on the recently emerging Jain religious diaspora in the USA. She is the author of Multiculturalism & Globalization Society Literature Education; and Learn Gujarati: A Resource Book for Global Guajaratis at Beginners’ Level. Mehta also co-edited a volume titled Literature of South Asian Diaspora. She has presented papers at local and international academic conferences and has published several articles on multicultural education, ELT, teaching Gujarati as a foreign language and Jainism in reputable international journals and edited volumes. Her recent publication includes an essay titled, “Jainism, Ecology, and Ethics” in the volume Ecocultural Ethics: Critical Essays published by Rowman & Littlefield.