Angela Woods

Angela was named Director of the Darden Foundation & Community Affairs in September 2009. Angela oversees the Darden Restaurants Foundation and charitable corporate giving. She also collaborates across the enterprise to align strategies on employee volunteerism and diversity outreach.

Since joining the Darden Foundation, Angela is responsible for Darden’s signature initiative, Recipe for Success™. Through this initiative, Darden works with partners around the country such as College Summit, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, City Year and the United Negro College Fund to help create equal opportunities for access to postsecondary education. Angela has also developed and launched Darden’s inaugural Restaurants Community Grants program that helps support nonprofit organizations in hundreds of communities across the country.

Darden is the world's largest full-service restaurant operating company with annual sales of more than $7 billion. The company owns and operates nearly 2,000 Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, The Capital Grille, Eddie V's and Yard House restaurants in North America, employs 185,000 people and serves more than 400 million meals annually.

Angela previously served as Director, U.S. Corporate Responsibility for Nike, Inc. In this role, Angela led corporate responsibility for Nike’s U.S. regional offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Memphis and Portland. Her work included overseeing the national strategy and championing the execution of the company’s U.S. CR programs to change young consumers’ lives through sport. Prior to Nike, Inc., Angela was Director of Philanthropy for the American Express Company.

Angela holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating Cum Laude.