Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Angela Mooney D’Arcy: Angela is from the Acjachemen Nation, Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, the Native Nation whose traditional territories include the area now known as Orange County. She has worked with Native Nations, Indigenous people, grassroots and nonprofit organizations, artists, educators, and institutions on environmental and cultural justice issues for over twenty years. She is the Executive Director and Founder of Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples and co-founder of the United Coalition to Protect Panhe, a grassroots alliance of Acjachemen people dedicated to protecting the sacred site Panhe. She served as Board Secretary for the Blas Aguilar Adobe Museum & Acjachemen Cultural Center. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her J.D. with a concentration in Critical Race Studies and a focus on federal Indian law from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.