Who is Angela?

Angela is the reason we're all here. Born and raised in New Orleans, Angie has spent her entire life battling the systems that keep so many Americans in a state of cyclical financial and health hardships, making meaningful healing and the pursuit of happiness into near-unachievable luxuries.

Angela is courageous, hard-working and resilient. Through severe chronic health issues (not to mention racism, classism, maltreatment by the justice system and labor/wage exploitation by countless employers), Angie has persevered to fight for the welfare and dignity of herself and her beloved son.

When life became untenable for them in New Orleans, Angela teamed up with one of her son's former teachers (our founder!) to share their story and raise the money for them to relocate to Birmingham, leaving her entire life behind to create a better one for her son.

Angela and our founder— who was facing her own severe chronic health issues — became so close along the way that Angela became the namesake and central inspiration for our work, while the success of moving strangers to compassion by sharing her story gave rise to our mutual-aid style of community engagement and the creation of our slogan, Share Whatcha Got.

Having served as Vice President of our board and continuing to do contract work for the org in New Orleans, Angela has been an influential voice in our growth and trajectory. Angela’s story is a continual reminder of the importance of our mission; and her warm, generous energy proof of the remarkable strength and resilience of the human spirit, especially when we come together and fight for one another’s health, dignity and pursuit of happiness.