About Meade
Recently retired, Meade Goodenow Saeedi lives in suburban Washington DC with her husband
of more than thirty-five years, Leon, who was born in Iran and has family there.
They enjoy spending their winters in Puerto Rico. Their daughter lives in New York City.
A polio survivor from the 1950s, she was a Rehabilitation Counselor with the State of Maryland and a Counseling Psychologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC.
Meade grew up in Ohio and earned a Bachelors degree with Distinction in Political Science from Ohio State University.
After serving as a VISTA volunteer at a Job Corps Center in North Carolina, she moved to the District of Columbia, where she completed a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling at The George Washington University. Later, Meade completed her Ph.D. in Public Administration and International Relations at the University of Maryland.
She continues her lifelong quest for learning by listening to college lectures on DVD, where she gets to "study all the stuff I really wanted to know but couldn’t cram into my overcrowded schedules".
A polio survivor from the 1950s, she was a Rehabilitation Counselor with the State of Maryland and a Counseling Psychologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC.
Meade grew up in Ohio and earned a Bachelors degree with Distinction in Political Science from Ohio State University.
After serving as a VISTA volunteer at a Job Corps Center in North Carolina, she moved to the District of Columbia, where she completed a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling at The George Washington University. Later, Meade completed her Ph.D. in Public Administration and International Relations at the University of Maryland.
She continues her lifelong quest for learning by listening to college lectures on DVD, where she gets to "study all the stuff I really wanted to know but couldn’t cram into my overcrowded schedules".
