Angela grew up in New Jersey and attended Boston University as an undergraduate, with a Geophysics & Planetary Sciences major and Mechanical Engineering minor. She worked at both Columbia and Rutgers universities before attending graduate school at the University of Maryland, where she joined the NASA InSight mission team, focusing on the use of terrestrial geophysical analog locations to prepare for future missions.

Angela completed her Ph.D. in 2020 and spent two years as a postdoctoral scholar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she joined the Dragonfly mission team and continued working on planetary seismology problems, especially the modeling of icy ocean worlds. At LPL, Angela looks forward to developing the next generation of seismometers to explore the Solar System.