Angela Palmer

Vice President, Organizational Equity + Special Projects

AZ Impact for Good

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Angela Palmer (she/her/they), Vice President of Organizational Equity & Special Projects at the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits + Arizona Grantmakers Forum, leads diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (IDEA) efforts at all levels within her organization. Angela has dedicated her life to asking challenging questions, consistently engaging in difficult conversations, and advocating for necessary change on behalf of others and the teams that she has led. Angela's propensity for leading positive change on behalf of others was also apparent in her work at The Phoenix Symphony and Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona. While living much of her Arizona-based time in Phoenix, Angela came to know Northern Arizona as both a gallery director and nonprofit leader, focusing on achieving operational efficiency simultaneous with growth in the community. In volunteer roles at the Humane Society of Sedona and Tedx Sedona, she came to fully appreciate the needs of the state’s rural communities.  

 

Angela’s passion for championing underrepresented communities can be traced to her being named a Math for America Fellow. With a teaching post in a Brooklyn, New York transfer school, she served low-socioeconomic, over-age, under-credited teens receiving their last chance to graduate with a high school diploma. This commitment to making instructional design and delivery accessible to at-risk populations fueled her work as a curriculum developer at Edgenuity, Grand Canyon University, and the Sanford Inspire Program at Arizona State University.  

 

Angela, a first-generation (maternal) American and first-generation college graduate, holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from New York University and master’s degrees in mathematics secondary education and business administration with a focus on global management from, respectively, Columbia University and Thunderbird School of Global Management.