Alexs Pate, President and CEO of Innocent Technologies and creator of The Innocent Classroom, will discuss his vision for an educational system liberated from racial stereotypes and negative narratives about people of color, indigenous people, and other marginalized individuals. He will focus on the power of individual relationships to create spaces free of stereotypes—spaces of innocence—for all people who enter and are served in these places. These spaces will give way to a more enlightened system in which each individual becomes aware of their power and unlimited potential.
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 the 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.