Power Luncheon Stories Behind the Statistics – Dr. Anupama Pasricha’s Journey to Transform Leadership

Dr. Anupama Pasricha is devoted to a question that shapes our region’s economic future:
How do we ensure women, especially women of color, not only access leadership positions but truly thrive in them?

With over 30 years of global teaching and research experience, including 12 years in India, Dr. Pasricha brings a deep understanding of educational practices, cultural perspectives, and human-centered leadership.

As an educator and administrator at St. Catherine University since 2005, Anupama has helped shape programs that prepare women to become ethical and innovative leaders at the intersection of fashion, business, sustainability, and equity.

She champions using business as a force for good, modeling leadership rooted in both strength and empathy.

Research & Impact

For the past five years, Anupama has been deeply engaged with the Minnesota Census of Women in Corporate Leadership, which tracks women’s representation in executive and board positions across Minnesota’s largest publicly traded companies.

The data tells a story that demands our urgent attention:

• Last year, the percentage of women on boards rose by only 0.4%
• The percentage of women executive officers has remained flat for five consecutive years

Early trends in 2025 suggest some shifts, which Anupama will be reporting on this April at TCB Talks: Women in Leadership.

What You’ll Hear

In this conversation, moderated by WCCO’s Amelia Santaniello, Anupama will share her personal leadership journey –
the barriers she overcame, the lessons she learned, and the choices that mattered.

She will then illuminate what five years of Census data reveal about:

• Where we’ve been
• Where we are now
• And, critically, the bold actions required to create systemic and sustainable change

This is not just a diagnosis, it’s an invitation.

Anupama invites you to be a change leader.

Online registration closes on March 1, 2026.

Amelia has anchored at the station since 1996. A decade later, her husband Frank Vascellaro joined her at the desk, making them the first married couple to co-anchor a news program in the Twin Cities. She now co-anchors the 4pm broadcast with Erin Hassanzadeh and the 6pm newscast with Frank.

Before coming to Minnesota, Amelia anchored the weekend news at WTIC-TV in Hartford, CT. She started her career in Washington, D.C., at WUSA, where she was a reporter trainee. From there, she went to WETM-TV in Elmira, N.Y., where she anchored the weekend newscasts. Then she moved on to WNEP-TV in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pa. as a reporter and anchor.

Amelia was born in Alexandria, Va. She grew up in a career military family and lived in Virginia, Japan and Texas. She attended Marywood University in Dunmore, Pa.

City Pages editors named her Best Newscaster in the Twin Cities in 2000 and 2013. Readers of The Minnesota Women’s Press picked her as their favorite local female television personality.

Amelia and Frank are deeply involved with the community and frequently serve as the master of ceremonies at some of the Twin Cities premier charity events.

They live in Minneapolis with their three kids and two dogs.

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