ANGELA PARK


Angela Park has been associated with The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group,
Inc. since 2006 and presently serves as a consultant. She is an experienced
speaker, trainer, and facilitator with government, nonprofit, and private
sector organizations and has a background in sustainable development
policy, diversity training, organizational culture change, environmental
justice, community development, and leadership development.

Angela’s work marries in-depth knowledge of environmental policy and
constituencies with diversity expertise. As an internal diversity director,
she has designed and managed all facets of organizational diversity
programming, including planning, training, affinity groups, and assessment.

As an external diversity consultant, she has worked with nonprofit, higher
education, and private sector institutions including the New England
Aquarium, Trust for Public Land, High Country News, Yale University,
Northeast Utilities, Eileen Fisher, United Technologies Corporation, and
FedEx/Kinko’s.

As director of Diversity Matters, a nonprofit that aims to make diversity
and inclusion a hallmark of environmental and social change efforts,
Angela designs and manages the organization’s comprehensive resources
including training, organizational consulting, leadership development, and
movement-wide retention and recruitment initiatives.

Previously, Angela worked at The White House in both terms of the Clinton/
Gore administration, and was a cofounder and deputy director of the
Environmental Leadership Program. She directed state level sustainable
development policy initiatives at the Center for Policy Alternatives. She has
testified before Congress and state legislatures and lectured at universities
across the country. In addition she is a writer with articles published most
recently in Grist Magazine and The Diversity Factor.

She participated in the inaugural class of the Donella Meadows Leadership
Fellows Program, graduated from the NTL Institute’s Diversity Practitioner
Certificate Program, and was named a “Young Woman of Achievement” by
the Women’s Information Network in Washington, DC.