Angela Russell has been on stages her whole life — first as a musician, then (by her own admission, awkwardly) as a dancer, and eventually as a speaker. She knows what it means to be in a room with an audience, to feel when something is alive and when it isn't, and to make the subtle shifts that bring everyone into the conversation. That instinct has carried her across more than two decades of public speaking. She has delivered keynotes at national and international gatherings including a 2018 invited address to the World Council of Credit Unions in Singapore, a commencement address at Beloit College, and keynote conversations alongside leaders including Dr. Helene Gayle and Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child. She has emceed landmark community events including the 40th Annual Madison & Dane County King Holiday Observance. Her stages have ranged from the Disability:In Wisconsin conference to the United Nations Credit Union Sustainability Conference, from the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council to the CapTimes Ideas Fest. Angela is also a sought-after moderator and interviewer — equally at home in a fireside chat, a community stage, or a recorded conversation. As host of Black Oxygen, she has interviewed Ijeoma Oluo, Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, and Governor Jim Doyle, among many others. In organizational and community settings, she has moderated and interviewed Resmaa Menakem, Heather McGhee, Priya Parker, Valarie Kaur, Matthew Desmond, Darnell Moore, Ericka Huggins, and others whose work sits at the center of the most urgent conversations of our time. Angela's talks draw on twenty-five years of work at the intersection of culture, community, and systems change. As a former Chief Diversity Officer and Foundation President at TruStage, Community Engagement Lead at the UW-Madison Population Health Institute, leader for the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, Policy Advisor to Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, epidemiologist, and founder of The Undercurrent, she speaks from lived experience across sectors, systems, and rooms where the stakes were real. Her perspective is grounded in science, experience, and a reverence for what is sacred and still becoming.