Welcome to INNOVATE! Podcast host Angela Tucker sits down with Re-Envisioning Foster Care Champions - visionary leaders using their lived experience expertise to improve life outcomes for our nation's children and youth in foster care. They are creating a Culture of Possibility, changing the foster care narrative & leading the nation forward. To learn more about INNOVATE!, the Re-Envisioning Foster Care Movement & the Treehouse Foundation, go to treehousefoundation.net.
What does it take to help students with foster care experience not just enroll in college, but truly thrive? Greta Munns, Fostering Success Program Liaison at the University of Wisconsin–Stout, shares how creating a culture of belonging can transform educational outcomes for students who have experienced foster care. She also discusses her appointment to Wisconsin's Future of the Family Commission and why systems change begins with listening to those most affected.
9 Jan 2026
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In this episode, host Angela Tucker sits down with Athena Garcia to discuss her powerful journey through the child welfare system. Athena shares how losing her mother at a young age and later entering foster care during high school shaped her life and career. Drawing from her lived experience, she now serves as a child welfare facility auditor, working to protect the safety and rights of youth in care. Athena holds a Master of Social Work from Boston University and brings both professional ex...
3 Sept 2025
S04E02: From Anger to Advocacy: Alexandria’s Journey Through 55 Foster Homes
Re-envisioning Foster Care Champion, Alexandria Ware, a fierce advocate and founder of Culture Creations Incorporated. A survivor of more than 50 foster care placements in Kansas, Alexandria shares how her lived experience—once marked by anger and survival—has become the foundation of her purpose-driven work. With unflinching honesty, she reflects on the ways trauma shaped her youth, the mentors and judges who offered steady guidance, and the healing practices that helped her transform pain i...
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