He is a committee member of the Atma Nirbhar Skill Summit 2020.[7] He also serves as a mentor for venture funding and incubation organizations like Image.[8] He is an advisor for the Bharat Education Excellence Award 2025.
Early life and education
He was born in 1960 in Hyderabad,[9] his family hails from Razole, East Godavari, and belongs to the Dalit community.[10] His father's name was Late Subbaiah Tenneti and his mother’s name was Vijaya Laxmi Tenneti who were both teachers. He is married to Sirisha Kumari Tenneti, who is an Intellectual Property Attorney advocate[11][12] and he has two daughters.[13]
He runs an NGO called Krishna Prasad Foundation.[17] Through the Foundation, he also hosted Atma Nirbhar Skill Summit to help promote entrepreneurship[18] and worked to mobilise medical equipment during the COVID with the support of American India Foundation.[19]
Publications
In 2006, he authored Trafficking in Persons: Tip of the Iceberg, published by the United Nations(UNIFEM).[20] His research highlighted that children outside the schooling system are vulnerable to trafficking, leading to the Right to Education Act 2009 (RTE).[21][22]
In 2002, he authored a document Malupu, a poverty alleviation program that provided up-skilling to 162,000 BPL leather artisans in CLRI Madras.[23]
