Ayinde Tate

Ayinde Tate, LPC, has been the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Episcopal Academy since 2018. Ayinde has over fourteen years of experience working with youth in an educational and mental wellness setting. Upon graduating with his BA in Psychology from La Salle University in 2007, he returned to the San Francisco Bay Area to work for San Mateo County as a shelter counselor for adolescents. Ayinde returned to Philadelphia to work with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships as an Out of School Time Program Director. He went on to obtain his MS Ed. in School and Mental Health Counseling from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. He later worked as a college counselor at Freire Charter School and therapist at the Attic Youth Center located in Philadelphia. In his career, Ayinde has been trained as a National SEED Leader, Narrative 4 Story Exchange Facilitator and received his License in Professional Counseling (LPC). Lending an ear and providing a voice for youth is his passion. He is motivated daily by this passion as well as by his wife and two children.