Gloria Casilda Anglón

Gloria Casilda Anglón (she/ella) is an Afro-Latina scholar, wellness coach, and systems designer working at the intersections of higher education, healing, and liberation. A proud daughter of working-class Dominican immigrants—raised in the Bronx, Miami, and Providence, and now based in Los Angeles—Gloria brings over a decade of experience in diversity and inclusion work at Ivy+ universities. Currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California, she integrates mindfulness, equity, and organizational transformation to build spaces where rigor and restoration coexist.

Her work is unapologetically political and rooted in dignity, equity, and collective care. Through her Liberatory Systems Lab, Gloria is developing research and coaching practices that transform care from a soft add-on into core infrastructure. Her dream is to make liberation tangible—designing systems where belonging, wellness, and justice are not aspirations, but the foundation for how communities thrive.

Through the Acosta Institute Fellowship, Gloria hopes to deepen her healing-centered leadership and connect with a network of practitioners shaping new paradigms of education, governance, and care. She is especially interested in co-creating practices that bridge academic scholarship with embodied healing—helping leaders move at what she calls a “gentle rhythm,” where joy, reflection, and shared power are essential to sustainable change.