Angela has 15 years of experience cultivating relationships in state government, academia, and community development sectors where she specializes in facilitating conversations at the intersection of race, gender, policy, and organizational change.

Notable career moves include project managing for procurement, racial and health equity at Ramsey County. Angela led the development of a racial equity theory of change and designed an infrastructure that would support, align and advance efforts countywide. While at the Democracy Collaborative (TDC), Angela provided project management and primary leadership to promote new work related to establishing community wealth building systems that are democratic and reparative. She worked with grasstops and grassroots cross-sector leaders in Northern Virginia who are collaborating to establish a national model grounded in these principles.

The clarity and expertise that Angela brought to issues of race and gender made her one of TDC’s most sought-after thinkers and facilitators-—by her peers on staff and by partners in the field. Angela earned a bachelor’s degree from Elon University and a master’s degree from The Ohio State University. Her published work includes “Doubly Displaced: Women, Public Housing, and Spatial Access after Hurricane Katrina,“ in the book The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster, and The Challenge to Act: How Progressive Women Activists Reframe American Democracy.