50 Most Influential Latinos

Angela Hurtado

Vice President, COO and Co-Founder

HoPe (Hispanic Organization Promoting Education)

Angela Hurtado is the Vice President, COO and Co-Founder of HoPe (Hispanic Organization Promoting Education) with over 10 years of experience working with youth, families, stakeholders and school districts. As a social entrepreneur, she turns ideas into reality, leads teams effectively, and manages the everyday demands of a thriving organization. Angela co-founded HoPe because she believes every student is one caring individual away from being a success story and through HoPe they are being the individuals creating a pathway to and through high school and college. Within 10 years HoPe has expanded its youth leadership development and educational attainment programming to 60 high schools in Georgia reaching over 4000 families yearly achieving a 100% graduation rate.

Angela is a community leader who has been recognized by the White House for the work HoPe has achieved in Georgia. She is a GPEE Education Policy Fellow, a Praxis Nonprofit Fellow Alumni, was recognized as the “Wonderful Woman of the Year” in 2016 by Wealth Horizon, recognized by Fox Broadcasting Company as 1 of 11 Home Free Heroes, Selected as a 2019 Braves Country Community Hero Award, selected as a recipient of the 2019 Univision Corporate “Lo Nuestro” Recognition and selected as a 2019 Stand Together Foundation Catalyst Network Fellow. Angela is from Colombia, loves God, her hubby and her two amazing daughters. She is a foodie who believes you can’t wait for change to happen, you have go and be the change!