INNOVATE!
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.
INNOVATE!
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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 expertise and personal insight to a thoughtful conversation about resilience, accountability, and systems change.