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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome 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.
Recent episodes include "S04E04: Building Belonging Beyond Campus" (26 August 2026, 43 minutes), "INNOVATE_S04_Athena Garcia Gunn_V3" (9 January 2026, 30 minutes), and "S04E02: From Anger to Advocacy: Alexandria’s Journey Through 55 Foster Homes" (3 September 2025, 30 minutes).
INNOVATE! publishes roughly irregularly, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 35 episodes.
Booking probability for INNOVATE! is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. INNOVATE! requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. INNOVATE!'s contact route on record: public web form.
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INNOVATE! is a kids podcast with 35 episodes published.
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Episode #4
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...
Episode #4
<p>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...
Episode #3
<p>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...
Episode #2
<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...
Episode #1
<p>ReEnvisioning Foster Care Champion Gaelin Elmore is a former NFL player who chose to retire from football and become a full-time advocate for children and youth whose lives have been impacted by foster care. A...
Episode #10
<p>Charles and Molly Lerner were adopted by the same parents when they were children. They are siblings by adoption. Today Charles and his husband, who live in Boston, are parenting Molly’s son. They are his adoptive...
Episode #9
<p>ReEnvisioning Foster Care Champion Demetrius Napolitano is a passionate advocate for children and young people who are experiencing foster care and their peers in NYC public schools. Using his knowledge of yoga and...
Episode #8
<p>2023 REFCA Champion Keri Hope Richmond is a change maker, storyteller, and a passionate advocate for children and families. She is the manager of child welfare policy for the American Academy of Pediatrics and the...
Episode #7
<p>REFCA Champion Patty Chin is a visionary advocate for young people in foster care. Using her lived expertise, she created a compelling new option to support the needs of the 20,000 youth who age out of foster care...
Episode #6
<p>REFCA Champion Jasmine Snell has a dream: to create a primary school that supports two generations of Americans - children and their parents; a community based resource that is available to children experiencing...
Episode #5
<p>REFCA Champion Carloe Moser discusses the ways that the Crosby Scholars LIGHHT Program in Winston-Salem, North Carolina helps young people living in foster care see a light at the end of the tunnel while facing...
Episode #4
<p>In the 6th grade, REFCA Champion Cristal Ramirez had a dream … to attend San Diego State University. She knew that very few kids living in foster care ever receive college or graduate-level degrees, but she wanted to...
Episode #3
<p>As a freshman at Old Dominion University, Melvin encountered a plethora of resources colleges have for almost anything you can think of - tutoring, counseling, intramural sports, and clubs. What he wasn’t finding was...
Episode #2
<p>REFCA Champion Lisa Dickson is involved in a wide array of initiatives in Ohio that amplify and honor youth voice and experience. She works diligently to ensure that young people living in foster care are designing...
Episode #1
<p>Takkeem Morgan aged out of foster care and uses his experiences to reimagine child welfare. At times, Takeem calls himself “delusional” because he doesn’t think of the child welfare system as a complex problem to...
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<p>David Ambroz and Brondalyn Coleman posit how foster care awareness could utilize tactics used by other social movements like breast cancer awareness who’ve revolutionized the color pink to become synonymous with...
Episode #9
<p>Demetrius Napolitano and Maddy Day discuss their work towards systemic changes in foster care through meditation and academia advocating for including lived experiences as useful metrics and data for reporting...
Episode #8
<p>Michael Williams and Jarel Skinner-Melendez discuss re-envisioning the way we approach the system of care stemmning from their belief that one system can’t fit all. They discuss ways the system can offer teenagers...
Episode #7
<p>Angela Tucker, the host of the podcast speaks with Nick Ramsey, the audio editor about the process of producing Season 1 and Season 2 of INNOVATE!</p><p><b>Welcome back to INNOVATE! for Season Two! This season, host...
Episode #6
<p>Alain Datcher and Angelique Salizan speak about the many intersectionalities within child welfare. They discuss the ways the Department of Justice, Department of Education overlap with issues such as child...
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