Angela F. Williams, J.D., M.Div. Immediate Past President and Chief Executive Officer, United Way Worldwide
Angela F. Williams is the Immediate Past President and CEO of United Way Worldwide, leading a global network serving 48 million people across 1,100 communities in 36 countries. Angela’s family, culture, and early life experiences culminated in her role at United Way and have influenced her entire career. Growing up as the child of civil rights activists, Angela learned early on the power of community, the importance of resilience, and the impact that individuals can make by standing up for justice. Her recently released book, Navigating the Age of Chaos, introduces a new way of thinking about our future and how we can best engage with accelerating upheaval. It offers a lens through which we can identify the various ways in which our present and future chaos will manifest, allowing us to recognize and focus on possible paths forward through that chaos.
Angela is bi-vocational, serving as an ordained Christian minister, attorney, and civil society executive. With over 30 years of leadership experience across nonprofit, public, and private sectors, Angela has held key roles at Easterseals, a disability service organization; YMCA of the USA; Sears, Roebuck & Co.; U.S. Senate Staff of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy; the U.S. Department of Justice; and the U.S. Air Force. Angela’s leadership is grounded in service and community-driven solutions. She serves on the Board of Directors for both AARP and Candid, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the OpenAI’s Ethics Council.
She has been recognized by USA Today as a 2025 Women of the Year, the NonProfit Times, Forbes, and Inside Philanthropy. Angela holds degrees from the University of Virginia, University of Texas School of Law, and Virginia Union University’s School of Theology.
