Meera Seshadri

Meera Seshadri, MSPH, is a Prevention Strategist for Soteria Solutions and a Lead Trainer for 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, corporate and community stakeholders, Meera creates social and behavioral change communication programs that are trauma-informed and rooted in equity-centered design and public health theories of change. She has 13+ years of experience creating and leading gender-based violence prevention strategy at higher education institutions including Emory, Georgetown and Harvard Universities, and consults with organizations such as Start By Talking, LLC, No Limit Generation, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, B'more for Healthy Babies, The Rockefeller Foundation and YLabs on curriculum design and implementation, community-based participatory research, anti-oppression organizational advocacy, and youth mentoring and mobilization. She received her MSPH in Adolescent Health & Development and Health Communication from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Meera is a classically trained dancer in the South Indian form Bharatanatyam, and earned her minor in lyrical dance and performance art while at George Washington University. Her international career as a professional choreographer, dancer and instructor 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!