Melenie O. Magnotta

Melenie O. Magnotta, grants manager for the Aetna Foundation, is responsible for managing a portfolio of national and strategic grants in the Aetna Foundation's focus area of racial and ethnic health equity.  Additionally, she administers the Foundation’s grant application, review and evaluation processes.

Earlier in her role, she administered the foundation’s former programs focused on end-of-life care and depression and was project manager for the inaugural Aetna Foundation Health Policy Forum.

Prior to joining the Aetna Foundation in 2006, she was community director for the March of Dimes Foundation in Hartford, where she coordinated fund-raising walks, motorcycle rides and other events.  At Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting and outsourcing firm, she was a project manager/business analyst in the company’s Norwalk, Conn., office.  She began her career as an analyst for retailer Nine West Group Inc..   

She holds a bachelor of science from Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pa.