Angela L. Talton

Angela L. Talton, M.B.A., is City of Hope's system senior vice president and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer. In this role, Talton leads the development of City of Hope's vision and strategy for advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and community benefit, improving health equity and ensuring measurable accountability and commitment to initiatives. Talton's broad expertise in diversity and inclusion encompasses leadership development, recruitment and retention of talent, communication strategy, community alliances, philanthropic giving, supplier diversity and analytics.

Since joining City of Hope in 2021, Talton has collaborated with key clinical, research and administrative stakeholders to craft and champion a holistic, integrated DEI strategy and implementation roadmap across the health system. With the goal of infusing DEI into the DNA at City of Hope, Talton spearheaded a variety of programs and initiatives, including systemwide interactive, scenario-based training, enhancing community benefit and designing metrics to track and trend measures of workforce diversity and inclusion.

Under her leadership, City of Hope has earned annual top ten rankings on Fair 360's (formerly DiversityInc's) Top Hospital and Health Systems list, along with achieving Leader Status for the sixth year for a 100% score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Healthcare Equality Index. City of Hope has also experienced increased employee engagement on the Press Ganey DEI Composite Score, rising from the 49th to the 70th percentile and exceeding the national healthcare average.

Talton has received national recognition for her work. In 2024 and 2023, the Los Angeles Business Journal recognized her as a Woman of Influence in Healthcare. She was also honored as a Diversity Woman's Media Elite 100 Class of 2023 member and was listed on Becker's Healthcare Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officers to Know in 2023. In 2019, Talton was named one of the Most Powerful Women in Corporate Diversity by Black Enterprise Magazine and was inducted into the Radio & Television Society Foundation's Hall of Mentorship.  She was named one of the Most Influential Women in Corporate America in 2012, 2014 and 2016 by Savoy Magazine, among other honors.

Prior to City of Hope, Talton advised national clients through her private firm, ALTalton Consulting. From 2012 to 2019, she held diversity and inclusion leadership roles at industry leader Nielsen as chief diversity officer and as senior vice president of global diversity and inclusion. She crafted a five-pronged strategy focused on accountability, career development, talent retention, supplier diversity and education there. Talton's work solidified Nielsen's reputation as a recognized leader in diversity and inclusion, with six consecutive years of improved ranking on DiversityInc's list of top 50 companies and receiving Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index rating of 100%. Additionally, this strategy led to Nielsen being ranked as one of the top companies in D&I with Disability:IN, Working Mother & AVTAR (India), Inclusive Top 50 U.K. Employers, Fortune and Forbes.

Talton received her Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.