Angelina is a public sector Human Resources and Labor Relations professional, researcher, educator, and community advocate based in Northern California, 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 public institutions become more accountable, human-centered, and guided by the communities they serve.

A first-generation American, born and raised in San Francisco’s Chinese-Russian community, who later raised her children in Oakland, California, Angelina is from a multi-generational refugee family—from her Sámi ancestry in Northern Russia and Scandinavia, to two to three generations in China, then on to Japan, a refugee camp in Tubabao, Philippines and soon after, San Francisco, California. 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. 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.