Prior to coming to the Lab, Meena co-directed the Community Justice Project, Inc., a Miami-based movement lawyering organization supporting campaigns for racial justice and human rights. She is a movement lawyer with an extensive background in activism and international human rights, including work in Haiti and Guatemala. While in Miami, Meena used her legal skills to build the power of movements locally in South Florida around workers rights, housing, gentrification and police brutality. She has also brought to bear her international human rights expertise in delegations to the United Nations to elevate U.S.-based human rights issues like police accountability in Ferguson and Miami as well as Stand Your Ground laws to the international level. It is this combination of local legal advocacy and an understanding of international human rights advocacy that Meena hopes to leverage as she develops the Global Network of Movement Lawyers at the Lab.

She deeply believes in the importance of multidisciplinarity and experimenting with new ways of solving problems. This can be anything from designing hackathons and salons to integrating arts and culture into legal work such as creating an Artist Residency Program at Community Justice Project and her collaborations with poet Aja Monet and Voices: Poetry for the People. Meena has published several articles in law journals and other media outlets, and has spoken in numerous academic and conference settings. 

Meena received her J.D from the University of Washington School of Law where she was a William H. Gates Public Service Law Scholar. She also holds a Master's degree in International Affairs (Human Rights) from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a B.A. in International Relations and Peace and Justice Studies from Tufts University.