Meena was raised in a Dalit neighborhood in New Delhi. Her parents earned little from their work as laborers. She also attended
Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), Delhi, and
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University. She has said her BBC contract was not renewed after she was outed as Dalit by a colleague and then experienced discrimination, and had her formal complaint denied as lacking "merit or substance" by the BBC. Her open letter to popular Indian actress
Kangana Ranaut was published by The Wire, and the republished in Indian languages and Nepali. She then began to receive death threats and
rape threats, and the Delhi Police registed a
FIR about the threats. She founded
The Mooknayak in 2021, She has described it as "a Dalit-centred newsroom." The stories published in
The Mooknayak cover issues concerning
Dalits and other marginalized groups in India. By March 2023, the related
YouTube channel for the online newspaper had 50,000 subscribers. ==Honours and awards==