Anjali Thanawala, Ed.D, Board Chair
Anjali Thanawala is an Educator, and a parent, who has experience of working at colleges in two continents. She holds her Masters in Teaching from New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ and her Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership from Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. She understands the needs of an independent learner and what a world-class student needs. As a founding member of OurMEETOnline Anjali’s vision is to bridge the skill and achievement gap that exist among students via technology, while minimizing the technology gap for the inner city students. She is a published author, faculty, college administrator, magazine editor, a grants writer and evaluator.
Ishan Jain, MSc. Founding Board Member
Ishan Jain, is the technology expert behind OurMEETOnline. A sportsman at heart and a young entrepreneur has his Masters in Computer Science from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab. Familiar with the latest trends in Education and technology he has completed several technology development projects successfully.
Helen Kwah , Ph. D, Founding Board Member
Helen Kwah works as an educational consultant with expertise in designing technology-based educational applications for school and informal learning settings.She received a PhD from New York University, an MPH from the University of Hawai’i, and a BA from Yale University. Her research interests include arts-based inquiry, mindfulness and social-emotional learning, and addressing racial and social inequities in education.
Dr. Gene Fellner. Ph. D, Board Advisor
Gene Fellner is an Associate Professor of Education at City University of New York (CUNY) where he teaches master’s pre-service special education teachers at the College of Staten Island and occasional arts-based research courses at the Graduate Center. He has written, often with his students, on special education, teacher dispositions and arts-based research. Recent articles include: “The demon of hope: Race, disability and the white researcher’s complicity with injustice” (2019); “You get tenure, what do I get?: Using art to interrogate a researcher’s dilemma” (2018), and, with Helen Kwah, “Transforming the embodied dispositions of pre-service special education teachers” (2017).
Mousomi Chakrabarty, Phd, Board Advisor
A passionate educator and researcher Dr. Chakrabarty has multiple degree . She has her undergraduate degree earned from Japan, Masters from Canada and Ph.D from US. She is an expert in Mathematics skill development and have served as a Professor for Developmental Maths at various community colleges in NJ before she accepted her position as Assistant Teaching Professor at Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at New Jersey’s state flag ship University Rutgers University.
Christine Redman-Waldeyer, D. Litt, Board Advisor
Dr. Christine Redman-Waldeyer is a Full Professor of English at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the last fifteen years, Christine has taught Composition, Literature, Creative Writing and Journalism advising over the college’s Journalism Program and newspaper. She has served the college in a number of capacities including the college’s Honors Program and in Assessment, most recently becoming an Assessment Coordinator. Christine earned her doctorate from Drew University’s D.Litt Program in Creative Writing and earned her Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Community College Leadership from Rowan University. Her work has been published widely and includes poetry book publications: Where We Nest (Cyberwit, India), Eve Asks, Frame by Frame, and Gravel (Muse-Pie Press, U.S.); she is also the co-editor of Writing After Retirement: Tips from Successful Retired Writers, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers and founded a women focused Literary Journal, Adanna in 2010. Her poetry most recently has been featured on poetryandcovid.com and her short stories on Spillwords.