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Meena Kapur,originally from Ohio, is the Co-Founder of The Mommy Tree and lives in Southern California with her husband and two young children. Meena blogs about the challenges facing Mom’s today and how she is actively involved in her children's life. Giving her children a strong identity is a priority. Prior to life as a mom, Meena worked as an architect, mainly in the commercial sector. She worked in Southern California as well as Miami, Florida. She traveled extensively as part of her Master’s Degree Program throughout Europe, South America, and Asia studying different styles of architecture and master planning. One particularly fascinating trip, she traveled for weeks through Europe with the University, studying the architecture master planning of European cites and their buildings.
She and her husband spent many years abroad in Hong Kong and Singapore as expats with her husband's work. She is well versed on making new friends quickly in foreign countries and settling your family into the everyday routine quickly. Through this assignment, traveling was a perk. It became a passion for Meena and over the years she has made traveling with children into an art form!
After returning to the United States, Meena served as a Director with The Advocates for the Benefit of Children charity. Through this position, she helped raise money for children in need in Southern California. She donates regularly to the Aashray Orphanage in New Delhi India as well as other local charities.
Meena is co-founder of www.DesiMamma.ning.com, which is an Indian cultural, parenting, social network website. Meena is also a regular contributor to a green social networking site, www.greenwala.com. She is always looking for ways to reduce, reuse and recycle. She is landscaping her garden to incorporate a more drought resistant landscaping for the climate relating to Southern California. She has been making changes to her families life slowly over the last few years to incorporate a healthier life. She also has removed the use of plastic storage in her kitchen, for the kids lunch, and no more water bottles to promote a healthier life.
She currently volunteers at her children's school. She finds being in the classroom weekly gives great insight into her children’s and teacher’s world. She has found many resources through the school which she shares on The Mommy Tree.
Gita Saini ,Gita Saini is the Co-Founder of The Mommy Tree, as well as www.DesiMamma.ning.com, an Indian heritage website. She gave up her career as an executive with Accenture to join the world of stay at home moms. At Accenture, she also took part in a committee to work on issues specifically facing working women, especially work/life/balance issues.
Having been blessed with two children, Gita shares her parenting experiences and lighthearted moments in her blog! Besides her parenting experiences, Gita has traveled A LOT, with and without her kids, and has a lot to share in that regard.
Gita is a big supporter of parental involvement in the educational process of our children. She believes that it is so important for parents to work as a team with their children and teachers. Gita shares her love for education in her blog posts.
Gita was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, where she received her engineering degree. She has been living in the United States for almost 15 years. Her Canadian identity has taught her to be very eco-conscious. In Canada, she lived through a great evolution in recycling programs, and based on that, knows that we can do better here in the United States. She shares her tips and experiences on her blog posts on www.greenwala.com.
In addition to her websites, Gita works part time for her husband's medical practice. When she left her career with Accenture, she spent countless hours overhauling the outdated medical practice that her husband had taken over. Gita has experienced the Canadian medical system, the American PPO system and the American HMO system first hand as a patient. From a medical practice management point of view, she has had many conversations with insurance companies, and IPAs (one going through bankruptcy at the time), in addition to her medical practice management experiences. Gita has very strong opinions on the state of the healthcare system in the United States.
Gita has been a guest on National Public Radio, and has been quoted on MSNBC.com.