LEADERSHIP

Angela is a globally recognized leader in catalyzing opportunity for women and transformation of legal systems, institutions, services, and professionals.

A social entrepreneur, global nonprofit executive, international development leader, and attorney, she brings diverse, comparative global perspectives to her work as a field-builder at the forefront of artificial intelligence, other emerging tech, and innovation in law and in catalyzing opportunity for women in law. She holds expansive global networks and deep understanding of the global legal and technology sectors and has led numerous pioneering initiatives to catalyze and capacitate large scale legal and justice systems change, advance gender equality, and leverage technology in complex settings in over 30 countries. Her first-hand experience in leading transformative initiatives in novel political and technological contexts and during moments of historic change enables her to navigate complex high stakes challenges, uncertainty, and extremely dynamic environments to bring new ideas, policies, systems, institutions, and solutions to life.

She holds deep expertise in law-related and government innovation and has supported over 50 government institutions and judicial bodies, over 60 civil society organizations, and 48 higher and professional education institutions with policy and programmatic initiatives, strategy, and institutional transformation. She has forged partnerships with business, universities, legal communities, social entrepreneurs, and philanthropy around the world to lead strategic initiatives from conception to implementation and scaling in complex, high stakes global settings.  She is a connector, weaver, and strategist expert in building global collaboration to address pressing geopolitical and legal issues and forging partnerships with global leaders and institutions as well as individual changemakers. A thought leader and advocate, she is committed to spreading knowledge and driving transformative change. 

Prior to founding the Lady Justice Initiative, Angela served as a senior executive leader of a high profile multi-national legal organization where she founded, built, scaled, and led its Middle East and North Africa Initiative. In this role, she transformed an “idea” into a 19 country initiative and operation, forging partnerships with governments, business, civil society, and higher education institutions, establishing offices and teams in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Netherlands, Oman, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen, and leading research, design, resource mobilization, and implementation of over 140 groundbreaking initiatives, which advanced the rule of law, democracy, gender equality, justice, and good governance throughout the region. Her work included: leading the building of novel public interest technology platforms to help people access legal information and support elections, transforming higher and professional legal education and skills training in MENA by supporting 48 institutions in integrating experiential and competency-based learning for law students, lawyers, judges, court clerks, and prosecutors, leading pioneering research on the status of women, rule of law, justice, human rights, and legal education, and helping bring 6 NGOs and networks of women lawyers and judges to life.