Angela holds a Bachelor Cultural Anthropology and a Master International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam with a specialisation in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She is a PhD candidate Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) at the Stellenbosch University, South Africa. From 2008 onwards Angela has worked with several non- government organisations in the Netherlands, Haiti, Cameroon and DR Congo which focused on peacebuilding in conflict or disaster affected settings. More than ten years ago, in 2013, Angela started working with community- based sociotherapy (CBS) in Rwanda. She has been involved in programme management and coordination, project development, knowledge exchange and initiating innovative research designs. Angela is one of the co-founders of ICBS.