Angel Escobedo has been appointed executive director of Leadership Clark County, a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic leadership development program.
Escobedo has more than 10 years of nonprofit leadership experience. He held a management position with Welthungerhilfe, a German-based international nonprofit organization focused on global hunger food security issues, and with Catholic Relief Services, where he worked on large-scale humanitarian projects in Pakistan. Escobedo is a graduate of Ventura County Leadership Academy in California, a program similar to Leadership Clark County.
He holds a Master of Public Administration in International Management with a focus on organizational development from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, Calif.