INNOVATE!
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<p>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. </p>
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1/18/2022
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January 9, 2026
INNOVATE_S04_Athena Garcia Gunn_V3
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...
September 3, 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...
June 17, 2024
S04E02: Merchandise on a Conveyer Belt
<p>ReEnvisioning Foster Care Champion, Dakota Roundtree Swain, teaches Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and is the Diversity & Inclusion Manager at Harvard Medical School. <br/><br/>Dakota has a Ph.D. in Social Policy from Brandeis University and uses their understanding of policy to create pathways that help foster care alumni identify their dreams and develop the skills they need to achieve them. <br/><br/>Dakota has a strong desire to help young people who feel a responsibility to change the child welfare system learn about the policies that shaped their experiences in foster care. They do this so youth can understand "the why" behind decisions made on their behalf by legislators and child welfare professionals and move toward healing. <br/><br/>Having been a highly engaged youth advocate during their time in foster care, Dakota is working diligently to transform child welfare so that youth who are currently experiencing the system do not feel like “merchandise on a conveyor belt” - only valued for their stories. <br/><br/>***<br/><br/>ABOUT THE HOST:<br/><br/>INNOVATE! host, Angela Tucker, is a REFCA Champion and a nationally recognized mentor, entrepreneur, educator and consultant. Angela is a transracial adoptee who, having been adopted from foster care by a white family, grew up in a city that was demographically just 1% Black.<br/><br/>She is the Founder of <a href='https://www.angelatucker.com/'>The Adopted Life</a>, a child-welfare consulting business where she strives to center adoptee stories and bring clarity and truth to narratives about race, class and identity.<br/><br/>Angela is the author of You Should Be Grateful: Stories Of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption. She has hosted the previous two seasons of INNOVATE!, and currently works as the Executive Director of the Adoptee Mentoring Society.<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>Angela Tucker - Host & Producer<br/>Nicholas Ramsey - Editor & Producer<br/>Judy Cockerton - Executive Producer<br/>Beylen Curtis - Research Assistant<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>The Treehouse Foundation has been leading the Re-Envisioning Foster Care in America (REFCA) movement since 2010. Please visit <a href='http://www.treehousefoundation.net/'>www.treehousefoundation.net</a> for more information about the award-winning work of the Treehouse Team.</p>
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- What is INNOVATE!?
<p>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. </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates weekly.
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