Executive Director, Transformative Educational Leadership
Education Board
Meena Srinivasan, MA, National Board Certified Teacher, is the Executive Director of Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL) an empowering, racially and culturally diverse, equity-centered, innovative program for educational leaders who are called to integrate mindfulness-based social, emotional, academic and ethical learning into schools and school systems (www.teleadership.org). Meena holds a Clear Administrative Services Credential in the state of California and spent five and a half 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 (Parallax Press, 2014) and SEL Every Day: Integrating Social and Emotional Learning with Instruction for Secondary Classrooms (Norton, 2019). Meena served on the Board of Directors of the Mindfulness in Education Network (MiEN), is a recipient of the 2014 Hemera Foundation Contemplative Education Fellowship, and served on the Advisory Board of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum’s exhibit, Yoga: The Art of Transformation, the first major exhibition to explore yoga. www.meenasrinivasan.com