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Teja Arboleda is a television producer, director, writer, actor and public speaker. He also is the founder and president of Entertaining Diversity, Inc.

Entertaining Diversity, Inc. provides consulting and education programs on cross-cultural and diversity issues for educational institutions, companies, and civic groups all over the United States. Using entertainment-based formats, Entertaining Diversity's unique mix of theater performance, lectures and multimedia presentations has won high critical acclaim by institutions and at professional gatherings such as the National Association for Multicultural Education. Arboleda's highly regarded performance-lectures Ethnic Man! and Gene Therapy have taken him through over 500 cities and towns in the U.S. as keynote to international organizations such as TESOL, and national institutions such as Yale University. Recognition of the importance of Arboleda's vision include an appearance 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, Associated Press and National Public Radio.

Arboleda is a prolific television producer and director. He also acts as a liaison producer between television and video production companies in Japan and the US. In addition, he has made outstanding contributions to public television in the United States. In 1994, he won an Emmy Award for Public Affairs Programming. From 1990 to 1992, he was staff editor for the nationally acclaimed PBS documentary series FRONTLINE, and from 1990 to 1994, he was assistant director/editor for minority affairs programming at WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1993 he was awarded an excellence distinction for service as a faculty member in the Public Affairs program production training courses. Since 1985, he has produced, directed and filmed music videos, INC. 500 corporate sales and training videos, commercials, PSA's and independent films. Recent clients include: MEDITECH, JJWild, Valco, Partners Health Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Historical Entertainments and CELT Corp.

As an actor and comedian, Arboleda's often uses a fast paced comedy style, focusing on ethnic and culturally related topics. In 1990, he played the leading role in the PBS television docudrama "Matzeliger." Since 1992, he has had over 550 performances of his one-man shows Ethnic Man! and Gene Therapy in 48 states.

Although Arboleda was born in Brooklyn, New York, he lived in Germany for two years and grew up in Japan. He has a BA in Visual and Linguistic Socio-Communuications from Clark University, and is fluent in Japanese and German. His father is Filipino-Chinese and African-American/Native-American, and his mother is German-Danish.

Arboleda is the author of In The Shadow of Race, (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1998) an account of his personal experiences as a multicultural, multiethnic and "multiracial" American. Recently 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 AGC/United Learning. He has produced segments on cultural diversity issues for WCVB-TV's (ABC) Chronicle and has recently completed sales and marketing videos for two Fortune 500 companies.

Recently he completed his first full-length feature film entitled "Got Race: A Pigment of the Imagination", a satirical look at the politics of race and American identity. Currently, he is working on his second full-length feature film, "Imperfectly".

Arboleda is a proud faculty member of the Digital Media Production Department at The New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massachusetts. He received his M.Ed from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA in May, 2005.

I can not express how much my campus and I enjoyed the presentation. It went over better than I ever could have imagined. I was overjoyed at the positive feedback I am still getting from my superiors, collegues, and student body. I would like to possibly look at doing another presentation  in a year or so. I really enjoyed working with you and Teja and look forward to doing so in the future.

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Amber S

University of Alabama

The program was excellent! We thoroughly enjoyed having Teja here at James Madison! Thank you so much for working with us!

Fareine