Angela Glover Blackwell
Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity. A renowned community building activist and advocate, Blackwell served as senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation where she oversaw the Foundation's Domestic and Cultural divisions. Blackwell also developed Rockefeller's Building Democracy division, which focused on race and policy, and created the Next Generation Leadership program. A lawyer by training, she gained national recognition as founder of the Oakland (CA) Urban Strategies Council, where she pioneered new approaches to neighborhood revitalization. From 1977 to 1987, Blackwell was a partner at Public Advocates, a nationally known public interest law firm.
She is the co-author of Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America (W.W. Norton & Co., 2002), and contributed to Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream (The New Press, 2007), an anthology edited by John Edwards. She has appeared on Nightline, PBS's NOW, and is a frequent commentator on public radio's Marketplace and The Tavis Smiley Show. She has also been featured on the opinion pages of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Blackwell earned a bachelor's degree from Howard University, and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She serves on numerous boards and co-chairs a task force on poverty for the Center for American Progress.
