“Angela Rose is a Leader, more than that she is the leader we need for our present and to lead us into our future.” - Leslie Redmond, Former MPLS NAACP President.
Angela Rose Myers graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2018 with a BA in Africana Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. In 2019, Angela Rose became the 2nd Vice-president of the Minneapolis NAACP and was selected for the NAACP’s NEXT-GEN program, intended to train the next generation of social justice leaders. In 2020, she was elected as the youngest president in the Minneapolis NAACP’s history. Also that year, she became a Josie Johnson Leadership Fellow with the African American Leadership Forum.
In 2023, Angela Rose graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Master’s degree in Human Rights. During her Master’s program, Angela Rose was awarded the 2022 President’s Student Leadership and Service Award and the Mary A. McEvoy Public Engagement and Leadership Award for her work with victims of police brutality. Throughout 2022 and 2023, Angela Rose and a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota notified the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights and other UN entities about the Human Rights abuses perpetuated by the police in Minnesota, utilizing testimony from impacted individuals. This work culminated in a country visit from the UN- Expert Mechanism on Law Enforcement and Racism that visited Minneapolis in April 2023.
Now, Angela Rose lives in Miami, FL, where she is getting her J.D. at the University of Miami Law. She works with the Miami Center for Racial Justice.
Angela often speaks on issues regarding politics, empowerment, change through social justice, and civic engagement. Her perspective as a young black leader connects across audiences.
Dynamic and powerful speaker
Builds meaningful community partnerships
After being connected with the Minneapolis NAACP, she quickly rose to the position of 2nd Vice-President at the age of 23, then was elected President of the Minneapolis NAACP in November 2020 at 25, making her one of the youngest NAACP Adult Branch Presidents in the Nation. She has worked with and built relationships with many local community groups on issues of civic engagement, such as Minnesota Voice, Black Votes Matter Minnesota, ACER, ACLU Minnesota, and national groups like the National Organization For Women and National Action Network. She has traveled worldwide, engaging scholars on social justice issues and public policy, most notably helping coordinate the 5th World Conference on Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequalities in Vitoria, Brazil and the 6th World Conference in Capetown South Africa.
