Meena Srinivasan

Founding Executive Director

Prior to her current role, Meena Srinivasan spent five years working in partnership with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to implement SEL system-wide in the Oakland Unified School District. She is the author of Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness In and Out of the Classroom, SEL Every Day: Integrating SEL with Instruction in Secondary Classrooms, and is the creator of the SEL Every Day Online Courses. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Mindfulness in Education Network, was Core Faculty of the Mindful Education Institute, and trained in teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at UMASS Medical School's Stress Reduction Clinic.