About The Founder
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Teja Arboleda, M.Ed. established Entertaining Diversity, Inc.,
in 1992 with a passionate mission to teach issues of race, cultural diversity and human potential through entertainment.
As a television producer, director, writer and entertainer, Teja has spent 23 years creating commercial and educational programs for television and distribution, including PBS, ABC, 
Discovery and major corporations around the U.S, such as Verizon Wireless. He has an Emmy Award and Telly Award.
Arboleda is also an Assistant Professor at the New England Institute of Art, where he teachers Race & Ethnic Relations. He has also lectured in
Japan.
Arboleda is African-American/Filipino-Chinese & German-Danish,and he grew up in Japan. He is the author of In The Shadow of Race, an account ofhispersonal experiences asamulticultural, multiethnic and 
"multiracial" American.He has a B.A.in Communications from Clark University, and an M.Ed. from Lesley University.
Media
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 feature-length documentary, Crossing The Line: Multiracial Comedians was completed in January 2008, and has been airing on PBS around the country.
Right: Teja at Museum of Science, Boston. Photo Copyright©2011 Lesley University
Performance
As a cross-culture and diversity issues expert, Arboleda has been a powerful keynote speaker and performance-lecturer for more than 700 
educational institutions, companies, and civic groups in 48 states.
In the media
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 numerous news stories in the media including the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Associated Press, National Public Radio and American Public Media.
Mentor/Teacher
Arboleda is Assistant Professor at The New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he teaches Ethnic Studies, Intercultural Communications and General Communications courses. He also mentors high school students who wish to enter the fields of art and media at his production studio.
I coined the phrase, "Race is a pigment of your (the) imagination" back in the early 1990s, because I was tired of the archaic, unfounded and politicized rubric of racial categories. The reality is that the color of one's skin, shape of eyes, texture of hair and width of nose has virtually no bearing on the whole person."
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Teja Arboleda
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