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About meerakrishnan2

Meera Krishnan is a 2011 Bay Area Fellow for Education Pioneers. She is interning in the San Francisco School District, in the Early Education department (EED). Her project is to help streamline the enrollment processes for EED. She is a student at Harvard Business School and has completed one year of the MBA program. Before business school, she worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Self-Reflection

Posted on August 17, 2011

I had lofty goals for my summer internship. I spent much of my first year in business school exploring social enterprise as a possible career path, but Education Pioneers was my first foray into the public sector. I wanted to … Continue reading →

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My Summer Project Overview

Posted on August 13, 2011

On the first day of work, I was given a project for the summer: Create a process manual for centralized enrollment within the Early Education department (EED) in the San Francisco Unified School District. I executed my project through the … Continue reading →

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First Day at the District

Posted on August 3, 2011

It’s day 1 of my internship. It’s my first time working in a school district – the San Francisco Unified School District, in the Early Education department. I’d been told to expect bureaucracy and frustration. I am more optimistic, but … Continue reading →

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The Race Conversation

Posted on July 25, 2011

At the end of our third EP workshop, a woman in our cohort stepped forward, clearly upset. She told us, in a shaky voice, that she had noticed a disturbing trend. We’d had a number of panels highlighting leadership across … Continue reading →

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How I Got Placed

Posted on July 17, 2011

Accepting the Ed Pioneers offer was only first step in my internship. Next, I had to get placed in an organization. As soon as I got a notification in my inbox about a pre-placement questionnaire, I sat down to think … Continue reading →

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Sharing Stories

Posted on July 10, 2011

If I’ve never experienced being a low-income child in public school, can I make change in that setting? I’ve struggled with this question since I started thinking about working in education. I attended public school in a New Jersey suburb, … Continue reading →

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Getting Started – The EP Perks

Posted on July 4, 2011

Accepting the Ed Pioneers offer felt like a risky move to me. When I got the offer during my first year of business school, I was in the very early stages of exploring different career paths after my previous job … Continue reading →

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