Elder Angela Overton, M.Div.
Senior Advisor, C-TAC
Elder Angela Overton, M.Div., is an effective communicator of what it means to receive and share Divine Holy Love. Angela is widely known for her realistic and dynamic teaching style which helps people apply the timeless truths of the sacred text to their everyday lives. She has been preaching, teaching, and providing pastoral care in congregations and communities for close to 30 years. Angela resides in Louisville, Kentucky where she serves as an Assistant Minister and Pastoral Care Overseer at Burnett Avenue Baptist Church and Associate Minister at Green Castle Baptist Church.
Angela is the founder and Chief Executive Officer for the CareWell Center in Louisville, KY; where she works with Faith Leaders as they work in partnership to care well for those in their respective communities. She is the Senior Advisor at the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) in Washington, DC where they are dedicated to improving the lives of people impacted by serious illness; elevating their issues, advising decision-makers, and leading a coalition of member organizations to advocate for policies that ensure greater access, equity and enhanced quality of life. Angela works with faith leaders, community-based organizations, and diversity leaders across the United States where they are functioning to improve serious illness care in our health systems, the quality of care and determinants of goals of care for the person with serious illness, and their caregivers by creating, providing and implementing best practices and disseminating and introducing tangible resources for distribution to faith leaders to be shared with their community.
Angela is a cancer survivor, which she believes has been one of her greatest accomplishments and best experiences outside of being a mother that she has had. It is her belief that this experience provided the lens of the patient and fueled her desire, drive and devotion to intersect spiritual and clinical care for those facing illness.
She has volunteered for, and worked with numerous faith-based and not-for-profit organizations. She currently sits on the board of Care Guide Partners, Grantmakers in Aging Task Force on Equity in Aging Philanthropy, and Wurzweiler School of Social Work Yeshiva University Interfaith Clergy Advisory Committee.
Angela earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History with a concentration in Social Sciences from the University of Louisville and a Master of Divinity degree and a Black Church Studies Certificate from Louisville Seminary. She received her ordination as Elder at Mount Zion Fellowship in Cleveland, OH and as Reverend at Green Castle Baptist Church in Louisville, KY.