Angelina is a public sector Human Resources and Labor Relations professional, researcher, educator, and community advocate based in Northern California. She lives and works on the ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok, Southern Pomo, and Wappo peoples. With more than twenty years of experience spanning labor relations, organizational development, operations, employee relations, and community engagement, her work focuses on helping institutions become more accountable, human-centered, and guided by the communities they serve. She is committed to sharing knowledge and experience so that individuals and communities can empower themselves and build their own tools to “dismantle the Master’s house” —Nothing About Us Without Us.

Angelina also serves as a member of her County’s Behavioral Health Board, advocating for community- and workforce-informed participation in approaches to behavioral health, accessibility, accountability, and equity. Her work is grounded in the belief that strong communities are built through collective care, civic education, public participation, and the development of leaders from within communities themselves.

A first-generation American born and raised in San Francisco’s Chinese-Russian community, and later raised her own children in the Oakland community, Angelina is from a multi-generational refugee family with Sámi ancestry. Angelina brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work, including her role as a working mother and lifelong advocate for justice, servant leadership, and community service. She is pursuing a Doctorate of Education in Organization & Leadership | Social Justice at the University of San Francisco, where her area of interest is decolonizing civil service and her research examines representational leadership in public institutions through a QuantCrit and critical public administration framework. Her scholarship explores how systems, policy, and organizational culture shape access, belonging, and opportunity, particularly for historically marginalized communities.

Her interests include civic leadership development, organizational change, decolonizing civil service and public institutions, holding public administrators accountable to the communities they serve, advancing respect and dignity in the workplace, senior, immigrant, and peer support and “chosen kin” networks, civil discourse, mutual aid, and community-based leadership education inspired by traditions such as the Freedom Schools and grassroots organizing movements that came out of the Civil Rights Movement, including the Former Black and White Panther Parties. The impetus for this organization was inspired by the (r)evolution of the new Black Lion Party for International Solidarity (BLPFIS founded by Paul Birdsong, 2026)