Her Story
About Angela
Angela Brown brings more than two decades of experience to the field of human services. She began her career working in the HIV field and has since served in multiple capacities, including as a community health worker at a mental health organization, SHU supervisor at a homeless transitional rehabilitation shelter, and director of community engagement at a clinic. In the latter role, her team supported STI prevention, links to care, and helped individuals sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Angela has completed trainings through her local Department of Health covering HIV services, community engagement, and outreach, and she attended additional training at GW University focused on community engagement. She emphasizes values such as compassion, integrity, knowledge, humility, and cultural confidence in her work.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Angela
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
You have to be sure to set boundaries and manage yourself. Because if your drive is do, do, do, you care, you care, you care, at the end of the day if you have not set boundaries and limits, sometimes you can get lost and you don't take the time to take care of yourself. So if you can't help yourself, if you don't help yourself, how can you help anyone else?
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Make sure the dedication is there, make sure that there is humility. There's nothing wrong with saying I don't know, but the difference is when you say but I'm going to find out and make sure to get back to you. That is paramount. And to have that work-life balance. You have to set boundaries.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
With the current administration, the funding is not where it used to be. It's almost creating the perfect storm where they are getting rid of certain government programs which gets rid of government employees, which is creating a stronger need but also depleting money from programs that are designed to help people. Client follow-through is very challenging due to social determinants, behavioral health issues, cognitive delay, or substance abuse issues.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Compassion, integrity, being knowledgeable, being willing to go that extra mile, humility, and being culturally confident.
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