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Alum Council

Angela Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern California

Angela is a current Ph.D. student at USC studying Population, Health. and Place. Her research centers around making food environments in low-income, BIPOC neighborhoods more just, healthy, and sustainable. As a Research Assistant with the Southern California Center for Latino Health, Angela is interested in working on research that highlights and addresses disparities in food access, nutrition security, and chronic health outcomes for Latine populations. Angela is an alum of the 29th Class of Emerson Hunger Fellows. As a fellow, she was placed at Just Harvest in Pittsburgh and The Brookings Institution. In 2021, Angela graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in Mathematics of Computation and a minor in Environmental Systems.