 Divya Mehra was born in 1981 in Winnipeg, Canada, the second youngest of four children.Her parents, Kamal Mehra and Sudha Mehra, have a long history in the restaurant industry with the family now operating three locations of East India Company Pub & Eatery, which has been serving South Asian cuisine since 1994.Divya Mehra received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University School of the Arts in New York and her BFA (Honors) in Visual Arts from the University of Manitoba School of Art in Winnipeg.