Angela Durham is the newly appointed student trustee for Edmonds Community College’s Board of Trustees. She is the sixth student trustee and was appointed by Gov. Jay Inslee to serve through June 2019.
“Angela is an insightful leader who finds new solutions to old problems,” said Lisa Schubert, the college’s department head of pre-college English and one of Durham’s first instructors.
When Durham first came to EdCC, she said she didn’t envision serving as a trustee — she was simply trying to adjust to college life. At age 46, she was juggling homework with other responsibilities and paying tuition, things she had thought were long behind her.
“Why not go all the way and aim for the top,” she said. “Life was hard for awhile. I had been through a divorce, and now to be in college and to be doing well, walking with my head high, I’m really proud.”
Durham is currently a work-study student employee in EdCC’s enrollment services department and is working toward an associate of technical arts degree in social and human services with a focus on advocacy.
She is a recipient of the 2018 Students of Color Conference scholarship, an I-CATCH scholarship recipient, and a 2018 student delegate for U.S. Sen. Patty Murray. Outside of EdCC, Durham volunteers at an assisted living facility and serves as the first black woman deaconess at Marysville Church of the Nazarene.
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