Teja Arboleda, M.Ed.
Founder of Entertaining Diversity, Inc.
As a cross-culture and diversity issues expert, Arboleda has been a powerful keynote speaker and performance-lecturerfor more than 800 educational institutions, companies, and civic groups in 48 states.
As a television producer, director, writer and entertainer, Teja has spent 26 years creating commercial and educational programs for television and distribution, including PBS, ABC and Discovery. He has an Emmy Award and two Telly Awards.Arboleda is also an Assistant Professor at the New England Institute of Art, where he teaches courses such as Race & Ethnic Relations, Intercultural Communication and Technology, and Contemporary Communications. He has also lectured in Japan.
Arboleda is Filipino-Chinese/ African-American & German-Danish, and he grew up in Japan. He is the author of In The Shadow of Race, an account of his personal experiences as a multicultural, multiethnic and “multiracial” American; and Jeni So Many, a children’s illustrated book about multi-identity.From 1987 -1994 Arboleda was AD/Editor for FRONTLINE, Say Brother (EMMY Award, 1993), and La Plaza at WGBH-TV (PBS) in Boston, MA., and was culture and diversity issues producer for Chronicle, (ABC, New England).
In 2000, he created, produced, directed, wrote and starred in the six-part, first through fourth grade educational video series, Diversity Elementary™which aired on PBS in early 2001, and is distributed by Discovery Learning. His video RaceOff™© – the original race-busting morphing video, is the opening feature on permanent display in the national touring museum exhibit, Race Are We So Different. His timely and important documentaries such as Crossing The Line: Multiracial Comedians, and Model Minority: Do The Math have aired nationally on PBS and PBS WORLD.
Recognition of the importance of Arboleda’s vision include an appearances before the Senate committee on racial classification where he testified for changes in federal racial and ethnic categories, and over 80 news stories in the media including the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Associated Press, National Public Radio, American Public Media and PBS.
Arboleda has a B.A.in Communications from Clark University, and an M.Ed. from Lesley University. Both of his daughters are of East Asian descent.
