Angela Ciccolo presently serves as the Interim General Counsel/Secretary to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The NAACP Office of the General Counsel is the litigation arm of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. In this capacity, Ms. Ciccolo is responsible for advancing the interests, policies and goals of the NAACP and its members through litigation. 

Her litigation activities have included serving as co‐counsel in NAACP v.  Harris, which challenged election irregularities following the 2000 Presidential Election; NAACP v. AA Arms, which protested the practices of gun dealers and manufacturers; and NAACP v. Ameriquest, which alleges discriminatory lending practices harm African-American consumers. Ms. Ciccolo was instrumental in creating the NAACP Law Fellow Program which provides law students the opportunity to work at the NAACP Headquarters and to develop leadership skills. In addition, she has negotiated strategic alliance relationships with corporate partners and has brokered substantial civil rights remedial action plans with major corporations.

Ms. Ciccolo is the recipient of numerous awards and recognition resolutions for her work, including the Medgar W. Evers Award for Excellence. She is a nationally acclaimed speaker on civil rights issues for NAACP branches, colleges and universities and other organizations.

Ms. Ciccolo was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and holds a Bachelors Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center where she was an Earl Warren Legal Training Program Scholarship recipient and served as the writing program editor for the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.