PENCIL
Meena Swaminathan currently serves as Partnership Project Manager at PENCIL since September 2023. Previous experience includes roles as Operations Coordinator (Project Manager) and Marketing Administrator at Piccolo from April 2021 to June 2023, where responsibilities encompassed auditing HR documentation and content creation for client communications. Meena also gained sales experience as a Sales Representative at HomeAdvisor and worked in customer service at Macy's. Additional experience includes a Management Trainee position at South Inc, focusing on B2B sales and territory management, and a Digital Marketing Internship at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce. Meena holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing and is pursuing a Master of Science in Information Systems at Middle Tennessee State University.
PENCIL
PENCIL is the premier organization linking community resources to Metro Nashville Public Schools. Thanks to dedicated PENCIL Partners, students work in state-of-the-art laboratories alongside teachers and industry professionals. Teachers design lesson plans that cross the traditional boundaries of education - like linking data points in algebra with students' Agricultural Science classes. Dedicated volunteers regularly donate one lunch hour a week to help a child improve his or her reading comprehension. Businesses work to create an engaged and excited student pipeline interested in their industry through internships and job shadowing. PENCIL also operates free teacher resource centers where Metro Nashville Public School teachers can shop free once a quarter to help supplement their classrooms.