Angela Marie MacDougall is the executive director of Battered Women’s Support Services Association in Vancouver.
Through her community-based organizing, frontline work, curricula development, training and activism over three decades, she has been deeply involved in movements for gender, racial and social justice.
MacDougall’s impact includes the development of empowerment and advocacy-based program and service delivery models that address gender-based violence and violence against women that are grounded in strong theoretical frameworks that include intersectional feminist trauma and violence-informed analysis. She has organized around law reform and community-based research toward building lasting social change.
MacDougall is an expert panellist at Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, a founding member of Feminists Deliver, a long-standing member of Vancouver’s Women’s Memorial March and a founding member of Intersectional Feminist Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative.
She was named a Remarkable Woman by the City of Vancouver in 2014 and Vancouver Magazine named her one of Vancouver’s most powerful people in 2016.