Meena Srinivasan, MA

Executive Director | Co-Founder | Fellowship Facilitator

Meena, a National Board Certified Teacher, is a South Asian-American edupreneur with expertise in the fields of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Mindfulness in Education. Prior to co-founding TEL she spent five and a half years working in partnership with the CASEL to implement SEL system-wide in the Oakland Unified School District.

Meena has taught and led in a variety of school settings (public, private, urban, international) and holds a Clear Administrative Services Credential in the state of California. Srinivasan was identified by CASEL as one of four Next Generation SEL Leaders engaged in innovative work at the intersection of SEL and Equity to offer a plenary talk at the 2019 SEL Exchange. She is the creator of the SEL Every Day online courses, author of Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness In and Out of the Classroom and SEL Every Day: Integrating SEL with Instruction in Secondary Classrooms, which was chosen as one of 2019’s Favorite Books for Educators by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and Integrating SEL into Every Classroom Quick Reference Guide. Meena’s article, “Social and Emotional Learning Starts with Adults” was one of ASCD’s 10 Best Express Articles of 2018 and she was featured in the January 2021 issue of Educational Leadership Magazine on “Mindful School Leadership.” Meena is also a student of the late Ramchandra Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson) and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Thich Nhat Hanh. She was ordained into the Tiep Hien Lineage/Order of Interbeing in 2010. Sacred activism has been front and center in both Meena’s personal life and the way in which she leads TEL.