Angela’s interdisciplinary PhD research examines alignment and interoperability issues of sustainability standards and disclosures at various firm levels, and the effects of supply chain transparency on stakeholder decisions and performance outcomes. She is particularly interested in whether data-driven operations like AI-based infomediation can bridge the gap between top-down sustainability goals and bottom-up supply chain activity decisions. At UCLA, Angela is advised by faculty from the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) and Anderson School of Management.
Most recently at MIT Sloan, Angela led research on carbon offset markets, addressing challenges in scaling voluntary environmental markets. Before academia, she founded ProductBio, an AI-driven sustainability data platform helping to steward $2.6 billion in government procurement towards environmentally preferable products while enhancing Scope 3 reporting. Her earlier career also included roles in management consulting and product management.
Angela’s prior academic training is in evolutionary biology/anthropology and organizational behavior/systems ecology, completing her B.A. at UC Berkeley and M.Phil at the University of Cambridge, UK.