Angela Ferrell-Zabala

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Angela Ferrell-Zabala
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Ferrell-Zabala in 2023
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Community organizer
  • political activist
  • nonprofit executive
Employer Moms Demand Action
TitleExecutive Director of Moms Demand Action (2023–present)
SpouseFernanda Ferrell-Zabala

Angela Ferrell-Zabala is an American reproductive rights, gun control, and social justice activist who serves as the inaugural executive director of Moms Demand Action. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Career

Ferrell-Zabala's early career included community organizing positions at several social justice organizations, with a focus on outreach to faith communities. [5] In 2011–12, she was the director of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice's Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom project, conducting reproductive rights outreach on college campuses. [6] [7] [8] Ferrell-Zabala was also an organizer for Community Change, and the Community Voting Project. [9]

In 2014, Ferrell-Zabala joined Planned Parenthood as Director of African American Leadership and Engagement. [10] [11] [12] She was subsequently appointed the National Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. [13] [14]

Ferrell-Zabala joined Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action's parent organization, in 2019 as Chief Equity, Outreach and Partnerships Officer. [15] [9] After serving in the role for 18 months, she was appointed Senior Vice President of Movement Building for Everytown. [16] [17] [18] Ferrell-Zabala was appointed the Moms Demand Action's first executive director on April 27, 2023. [19]

Personal life

Ferrell-Zabala identifies as Christian and LGBT. [5] Ferrell-Zabala and her wife, Fernanda Ferrell-Zabala live in Washington, D.C., with their four children. In 2022, she shared in a New York Times profile about LGBT families that she had befriended SumOfUs Executive Director Emma Ruby-Sachs at a nonprofit leadership retreat in 2016, only to later discover their daughters were half-siblings, having used the same sperm donor. [20]

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