Angie Allen spent 30 years in the financial services field and was the founding CEO of GLOBALT, Inc., an investment management firm. Prior to that, she was a Vice-President of Prudential-Bache Capital Funding. She is a former director of the Georgia Securities Association and in 1994 was the first female recipient of its Industry Leadership Award.  Ms. Allen is a former director of the Society of International Business Fellows, and a founding member and past president of the Atlanta Association of Women in Securities. Angie was born in Evanston, Illinois, completed her undergraduate work at Northern Illinois University, and received her M.B.A. from Georgia State University (GSU.) In 2000, Angie founded Full Circle Living (FCL), fueled by a basic passion to help “level the playing field” of opportunity. The not for profit’s original mission was to raise awareness and understanding of serious conditions that preclude a high quality of life including economic and health disparities, and lack of education and employment opportunities. Experience and research led FCL to conclude that these disparities won’t be mitigated unless women have an equal say in the allocation of global resources. To promote this message, Angie and her FCL partner, Enid Draluck, published "50-50 Gender Balance - Why We Have To "Get" It and Get It Now." Because of this conviction, Angie was a founding member of The Circle of Sisters, is a member of the Women's Solidarity Society of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, was a “Woman with Vision” Supporter of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation and is a former member and has served on the board of The International Women’s Forum - Georgia. FCL particularly promotes gender balance in leadership and has been a catalyst in the GSU/J. Mack Robinson College of Business (RCB) WomenLead program for developing female leadership. Angie is especially proud of her role in promoting this program because it tangibly expresses her most cherished beliefs/convictions about the critical role of women leaders in today’s global society/marketplace, and because WomenLead’s success has already attracted the participation of other Colleges within GSU and has received multiple academic awards, it has every potential to become a national model.   Angie is a supporter of Georgia State University, which she believes is uniquely positioned to help “level the playing field” because of the University’s diversity and representation of first-generation college students (like herself.) She serves on the Dean’s Council for GSU’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, on the Women Lead Advisory Board, and formerly served on the RCB board and received the 2013 Robinson Alumni Community Service Award. Angie is a past chair of the GSU Foundation (GSUF), past chair of the GSUF Investment Committee, served on the GSU Burning Bright Capital Campaign Committee, and received GSU’s Distinguished Alumnus award in 2016.  Her husband, Sam, has also become a steadfast supporter and they both are greatly inspired by their engagement with extraordinary GSU students.  She has served on the boards of the Emory University Ethics Center, the State YMCA of Georgia, Acción USA/Atlanta, and Crossroads Community Ministries, on the finance committee for Early Learning Property Management, Inc and was a member of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS).  Angie began to replace statistics with first-hand awareness of social injustice by being part of the FCS Urban Ministries Rotational Capital fund investor group to address the 2008 mortgage meltdown in South Atlanta, by being an inaugural member of the Spark Opportunity initiative of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta to address disturbing inequality gaps right in her own backyard in Thomasville Heights, and through being a Grady Health System Ambassador and seeing how crucial the extensive indigent care Grady provides is to our region. The reason Angie includes this chronicle of her involvements is because, on reflection, she now believes some of her work and intentions were not-well-informed, because voices from the communities addressed were not guiding the work. This reflection led her to a deep dive into the history of America’s societal systemic racism, particularly against American Indians and descendants of formerly enslaved Black Americans. That, in turn, led to a self-examination of her own unearned “White” privileges that were unfairly distributed to her throughout her life, and she is now committed to putting that right. She wrote about some of this journey in Past Due: Why Reparations to Black Americans and American Indians are Overdue, Featuring One White Woman’s Debt, a book she co-authored and is available at no cost on Kindle. Angie has a long way to go as far as walking her talk, making anti-racism less intellectual, and living in solidarity.