Our People
Founder
Dr. Baskaran Pillai Founder
Dr. Baskaran Pillai is an international teacher, humanitarian and scholar from Southern India. Through his educational and humanitarian initiatives, Dr. Pillai’s mission is to alleviate human pain and suffering in all forms.
Dr. Pillai has been a speaker for the United Nations Conference of World Religions and the World Knowledge Forum, and has hosted forums on Religion and Science. His scholarly background includes Masters degrees in English Literature and Comparative Literature from Madurai University and a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh where he was both a teaching fellow in the Department of Religious Studies and Coordinator of Indian Studies program for the Department of International Studies.
Board of Directors

Elaine Kueper Global Director
Elaine Kueper has been the Global Director of Tripura Foundation USA since 1992. She has also served as a Director of Tripura Foundation India since 2000. Ms. Kueper was fortunate to develop and oversee Tripura’a broad
Sonja Benkovich Director
Ms. Benkovich has been involved with Tripura Foundation since 2000, and joined the Board of Directors in 2006. She is a Director of the American International Academy India
Stacey Lawson Director
Stacey Lawson is co-founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (CET) at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Foreign Faculty of TRP School of Business, SRM University in Chennai, India.
Meena Mulloy Director
Meena Mulloy gained a view of how things run at the top quite early in life when she moved to California after college and temped for top executives of Fortune 500 companies. In 1991, she moved to NYC and went into computer programmingProgram Managers
