Show Notes:
In episode 87, I interview Alexs Pate (@AlexsPate), author and President and CEO of Innocent Technologies and creator of the Innocent Classroom. During the episode, we discussed Alexs’s book, The Innocent Classroom, and the work he and his organization are doing to confront and eliminate the racial stereotypes that limit the realities of people of color.
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Alexs Pate is President and CEO of Innocent Technologies and creator of the Innocent Classroom. He is a New York Times bestselling author who has written five novels, a children’s book, a book of nonfiction, and has curated numerous literary anthologies. His latest book The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias for Children of Color was published by ASCD (August 2020).Throughout his career Alexs has attacked racial stereotypes that limit the realities of people of color. He has worked to create worlds in which the humanity of everyone is recognized, known and finally assumed.
Alexs founded Innocent Technologies to build a world in which we can live our authentic humanity, uninhibited by the stories about who we are supposed to be. The success of the Innocent Classroom has led to the development of Innocent Classroom for Early Childhood Educators and Innocent Care training for health care professionals to build quick connections with their patients.Alexs leads his company through his vision for a world in which our children are free to achieve their unlimited potential, our people are free to live healthily and fully, and our individual humanity is prioritized and valued in the structures of society.
Alexs has published five novels to date. His best-known work is the New York Times Bestseller Amistad, which was commissioned by Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks/SKG and was based on David Franzoni’s screenplay. His other novels include Finding Makeba, The Multicultiboho Sideshow and West of Rehoboth, which was the “Honor Fiction Book” for 2002. Alexs’s first nonfiction book, In The Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap was published in 2010
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