She is a media maker/scholar whose practice reflects an interdisciplinary focus on documentary production, media studies, rhetoric, critical and cultural studies. Her scholarship investigates the possibilities for the documentary impulse to engage the process of social change. She is the author of scholarly essays in such journals as Visual Communication Quarterly and Journal of Documentary Studies. Her second book, Documentary and Social Change: An Investigation of Participatory Media Culture(s) is under contract with Oxford University Press. Angela is also an award-winning writer, director and producer of several documentary shorts utilized in community engagement campaigns, screened at various festivals, museums and art spaces around the world. She is currently working on her first feature length documentary, The Ritual.