In October of 2009, Angeles joined NCLR as the Proyecto Poderoso community worker. She grew up in the small town of Ayoguezco in Oaxaca, Mexico and graduated from University of California-Davis with a double major in sociology and Spanish. At UC-Davis, she worked with AFCSME to successfully pressure the university to hire more than 500 workers, and tutored middle school and high school as a member of MEChA. Additionally, Angeles interned in Chile where she worked at a health clinic for the Mapuche, Chile’s indigenous people. She plans to go to graduate school to pursue her passion for social justice.