Angie
Armand is the consummate professional with a dynamic personality
and a strong commitment to the Latino community, especially its
youth. Angie Armand currently serves as Director of the Center for
Hispanic Policy, Research and Development (CHPRD) located in the
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.
The CHPRD was created in 1975 with
the mission of empowering the state’s Latino community through
the process of inclusion in policy development and direct social
services. It funds about 30 Hispanic community-based organizations
offering a wide range of services to the state’s Latino community.
Such services include day care, youth and adult job training programs,
Latino senior services and more. In addition, the CHPRD serves as
an advocate for New Jersey’s growing Latino population.
A resident of Jersey City, Angie
Armand attended public school in Newark, where she lived with her
family most of her life. Ms. Armand received a bachelor degree in
liberal arts in 1986 from Drew University and a Master’s in
Administrative Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University in May
2008. She has taken graduate school courses in public administration
at Rutgers University and completed the New Jersey Certified Public
Managers Program with Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1999.
Prior to her appointment as Director
of the CHPRD in May 1999, Ms. Armand served as Executive Assistant,
and three times during that period she held the title of Acting
Director. Ms. Armand’s professionalism, creativity, warmth
and personal integrity has been called upon several times during
those years during periods of change which has allowed the CHPRD
to continue without interruption of the vital services and programs
it offers New Jersey’s growing Latino community.
During the past several years the
CHPRD has experienced unprecedented success and visibility due in
large measure to the untiring and steadfast work provided by Ms.
Armand. Such initiatives as the CHPRD’s Hispanic Interns in
Community Service Program and Latino Leaders Fellowship Institute,
the CHPRD’s highly acclaimed newsletter MATICES, the CHPRD’s
Foundation were due in large part to Ms. Armand’s efforts.
Angie Armand, who comes from a
very close-knit family of eight sisters and one brother, looks forward
to stamping her own distinct vision and leadership abilities in
leading the CHPRD and the state’s Latino community in the
early years of the new millennium. In particular, Ms. Armand is
looking towards using the CHPRD’s resources and assistance
in fostering greater development and self-sufficiency of the various
Latino community-based organizations the CHPRD funds and of the
new emerging Latino organizations.
Angie Armand was named one of the
2007 Latinos Destacados by Univision sponsored by Chrysler Motor
Corporation. She was selected in 1998 by La Tribuna Newspaper as
one of its Woman of Distinction honorees and in May 2000 by El Diario
La Prensa. She received the Frances B. Seller’s Alumni Award
from Drew University in 1992 and the New Jersey Educational Opportunity
Fund Alumni Award in 1989. She received the Maria DeCastro Blake
Community Service Award from the New Jersey Research and Information
Center at the Newark Public Library in May 2002. She has been appointed
to the National Advisory Board of the United States Hispanic Advocacy
Association.
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