Program Managers
People Are Everything
Our Amazing Volunteer Staff
It is our wish that the maximum amount of all donations goes to the people that need it most. In order to achieve this Tripura is nearly 100% volunteer based. While we have few full-time staff, our volunteer corps includes highly dedicated individuals who offer their time and resources in service to their fellow men and women in need.
B. Yadeesh
India Trustee and Program Manager, India Programs
B. Yadeesh is a trustee of Tripura India and responsible for overseeing Tripura programs throughout the region. He and the volunteer staff organize local feedings, liase between Boystown and Girlstown, and generally work to make sure Tripura programs run smoothly and with loving service.
Lalita Bearss
Program Manager, India Programs
Lalita Bearss has been actively involved with our Girlstown program in Chennai since 2005. She coordinates Tripura projects, teaches MST education programs throughout India and has been a major proponent and active leader of our Animal Welfare programs. She also supports Tripura with newsletters, our facebook page, YouTube videos, and various awareness and fundraising campaigns to keep us close to our friends, donors and sponsors.
Her varied background in Social Anthropology, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Nutrition, Arts and Crafts, the Canadian Film and Television Industry, Registered Massage Therapy and Healing has given her the experience and skills to draw on for this "jill of all trades" position.
Maria Bernett
Program Manager, Education Programs, U.S. and Mexico
Maria Bernett has been involved in developing and expanding Tripura
Foundation's education programs, specifically Mind-Sound Technology,
and also contributing extensively to curriculum development. She
coordinates the promotion of MST in Mexico, speaking at international
conferences, training teachers, managing coordinators and programs in
order to enhance the natural intelligence, learning abilities and
leadership skills of young people, especially those in economically
disadvantaged communities.
Marybeth Cunningham
Controller
Marybeth Cunningham handles all financial matters for Tripura Foundation and lovingly handles your donations. We greatly appreciate her dedicated service!
Gina Guerrieri
Retreat Manager, San Diego Center for Conscious Living
Ms. Guerrieri combines her experience in successful real estate investing and rehabilitation with a long time passion for spirituality and self evolution to create the San Diego Center. The retreat center's primary purpose is to use tools to transform the mind, body and soul. Ms. Guerrieri has been teaching meditation for over 10 years. She has developed large scale spiritual coaching programs and is currently the Director of Path of Miracles, an online education program that teaches techniques for manifestation and divine awareness.
Ms. Guerrieri earned a bachelor's degree in Geography and Political Science from Rowan University. She furthered her education in the field of technology systems development, project management, real estate and mortgage investment. She is also an ordained Minister and has studied under living masters of Interfaith, Buddhist and Hindu lineages for over sixteen years.
Sucharita Moore
Program Manager, Education Programs, Canada
Sucharita Moore has been involved in developing Tripura Foundation's education programs, specifically Mind-Sound Technology, in both the U.S. and Canada. She has contributed extensively to curriculum development and coordinates the rollout, management and oversight of MST throughout Canada.
Valli Wells
Education Specialist, Mind-Sound Technology, India
Valli Wells has taught Mind Sound Techonology in America, India, and Malaysia, as well as meditation in America, India and Germany. She has been active in delivering Tripura Foundation's education programs throughout India facilitating programs at Girlstown, Boystown, ICCW, and SRM University to name just a few.
Ms. Wells holds a Master's degree in English from San Diego State University where she taught freshman composition. She holds diplomas in programming and computer graphics and did coursework at Northeastern University and New York's School of Visual Arts. She has done numerous consultings and trainings for Fortune 500 companies and acted as project manager/business analyst. She has served as president on the Board of Directors of a large non-profit corporation.