Meera Seshadri, MSPH

Meera Seshadri, MSPH, is the Prevention Strategy Lead for Soteria Solutions and a Lead Trainer for both the Bringing in the Bystander® College Prevention Program and Workplace Solutions. She has spent more than a decade working as a health communications consultant, activist and researcher at the intersections of health equity, gender justice and sexual and reproductive autonomy. In coalition with academic, non-profit and community stakeholders, Meera creates social and behavior change communication programs and curriculum that are rooted in equity-centered design, trauma-awareness and public health theories of change. She is well versed in creating and leading gender-based violence prevention strategy and peer education programs at higher education institutions including Emory, Georgetown and Harvard Universities. She also consults for Start By Talking, LLC, as a research designer, specializing in designing, implementing and evaluating the role of identity and environment in the way minoritized communities perceive, access and receive resources and care. Meera received her Masters of Science in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Adolescent Health & Development and Health Communication.

Meera is also a professional choreographer, dancer and instructor - her international career in the arts has taken her from the Bay Area's Mona Khan Company to Chennai-based record label Earthsync, La Academia Nicaragüense de la Danza in Managua, Nicaragua, Berklee College of Music's Indian Ensemble and now - Boston Bollywood!