Advisor
Angela Ciccolo is an award-winning lawyer, international executive, and author. She currently serves as Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Special Olympics International, representing more than 5.7 million athletes in more than 175 countries. In addition to overseeing the full range of legal functions handled by one of the worlds most recognized and beloved non-profit organizations, she co-chairs the organization’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force.
Ms. Ciccolo came to Special Olympics after having spent a decade with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States, where she was the organization’s first woman General Counsel and Secretary. Ciccolo previously served as a civil trial attorney in Washington, D.C. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center where she served as the Writing Program Editor for the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. She received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In 2015, she was re-appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Virginia State Advisory Committee and has served on the boards of many nonprofit organizations. Ms. Ciccolo has served as an international election monitor and is a frequent speaker on issues of diversity and inclusion in the United States and abroad.