Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder in Residence @Policylink
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WORK HISTORY
Founder in Residence @Policylink
Oakland, CA, US
In 2018 Angela Glover Blackwell sunsetted her 20-year tenure of leading PolicyLink to become the PolicyLink Founder in Residence. As Founder in Residence, she is able to apply her wisdom, voice, and experience through the breakthrough Radical Imagination podcast, vast speaking engagements and consultancies, and her graduate-level instruction at the UC Berkeley Goldman Public Policy School. In these capacities, Blackwell is amplifying the issues, progress, and champions of the equity movement and energizing and animating its base and newcomers alike.
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Doctor of Law - JD
Howard University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology
ABOUT ANGELA GLOVER BLACKWELL
Angela Glover Blackwell is Founder in Residence at PolicyLink, the organization she started in to advance racial and economic equity for all. Under Angela’s leadership, PolicyLink gained national prominence in the movement to use public policy to improve access and opportunity for all low-income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, and infrastructure. Her Radical Imagination podcast debuted in September 2019, and introduces listeners to a world of talented, creative, progressive thinkers whose vision and determination are challenging the status quo to create the change we need.Prior to founding PolicyLink, Angela served as Senior Vice President at The Rockefeller Foundation. A lawyer by training, she gained national recognition as founder of the Urban Strategies Council. From 1977 to 1987, Angela was a partner at Public Advocates. Angela is the co-author of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future, and she authored The Curb Cut Effect, published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2017. As a leading voice in the movement for equity in America, Angela serves on numerous boards. She advised the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve as one of 15 members of its inaugural Community Advisory Council, and in 2020 was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to the state Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery. She is the 2018 recipient of the John W. Gardner Leadership Award, presented by the Independent Sector, and in 2017, she received the Peter E. Haas Public Service Award from the University of California, Berkeley.
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