ANGELA TALTON
Senior Vice President; Chief Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion Officer
City of Hope
Angela L. Talton, MBA, is City of Hope 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), improving health equity and community benefit, and ensuring measurable DEI progress across administrative, clinical and research functions. 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.
In her two years with City of Hope, Talton has created a holistic and integrated DEI vision, strategy and implementation roadmap, leveraging scenario-based training and diversity scorecards to mitigate bias and change behaviors to focus on conscious inclusion throughout the system. Under her leadership, City of Hope has improved its ranking on DiversityInc’s list of Top Hospitals and Health Systems from #8 to #6.
