Angel Pai at the 2023 United Nations Peace Day youth event as ILLUMIN DESIGNS jewelry designer and model for Designs4Unity official launch, with Mariama Camara and Roger Alcocer of Mazehual
Humanitarian Leadership
Angel’s humanitarian leadership spans institutional convenings, global broadcast dialogue, and long-term systems engagement across education, gender equity, and cultural investment. Her engagement centers on facilitating complex conversations at the intersection of policy, capital, culture, and lived human experience.
Gender-Based Violence | Global Dialogue & Systems Change
Angel is an advocate with the There Is No Limit Foundation, contributing to international efforts addressing gender-based violence through a systems-level, cross-cultural lens. Her perspective approaches violence as a societal outcome shaped by emotional conditioning, generational trauma, economic imbalance, and cultural narratives surrounding power and identity.
She has participated in global public dialogue on gender-based violence through international forums and broadcast platforms, including a global discussion aired by SABC News, South Africa’s national public broadcaster with reach across the African continent, where she addressed holistic prevention models grounded in education, emotional literacy, accountability, and long-arc cultural evolution.
Central to her approach is the recognition that lasting change requires capacity-building within communities, integrating protection and prevention through education, economic stability, and cultural responsibility.
Education, Youth & Systems-Level Empowerment
Education functions within Angel’s humanitarian leadership as a long-arc mechanism for equity, social stability, and individual agency. Her engagement emphasizes access, confidence-building, and early intervention as foundations that shape outcomes across gender, culture, and generation. She currently serves as Education, Youth, and Empowerment Ambassador for The Dais contributing to initiatives centered on education access, youth development, and cultural responsibility. She previously served as a STEAM Ambassador for the Aspire Artemis Foundation, supporting international programs advancing innovation, inclusion, and cross-cultural exchange.
Alongside institutional roles, Angel is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at graduation ceremonies, honor societies, and academic programs, speaking directly to students on agency, self-worth, and how education informs long-term opportunity, civic responsibility, and personal sovereignty. Her work in these settings reflects a commitment to education as a shared social foundation serving individuals and communities across age, gender, and background.
Foundational Initiatives | Crisis Response & Systems Action
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Angel co-founded Keep Breathing, Inc., a fully volunteer-led nonprofit established to address urgent shortages faced by frontline medical workers during the earliest phase of global shutdown.
The initiative coordinated open-source design, rapid prototyping, and global dissemination of critical medical equipment, including ventilator splitters, intubation boxes, ear savers, and powered air-purifying respirators (PAPR). Within weeks of inception, more than 500 volunteers across disciplines mobilized to develop and distribute designs at a time when physical supply chains and postal systems were largely inaccessible.
Requests for these designs were received from medical institutions and diplomatic representatives worldwide, and the open-source plans were deployed internationally to enable localized production under emergency conditions. Alongside the operational response, Angel emerged as a visible voice of civic activation, encouraging artists, creators, and professionals across industries to step forward, self-organize, and contribute their skills during a period of global uncertainty.
The initiative was recognized by Time Magazine, Observer, and World Journal, and remains a defining example of Angel’s approach to humanitarian leadership grounded in collaboration, adaptability, and care.
United Nations–Aligned Convenings & Institutional Leadership
Angel has served as Master of Ceremonies and panel moderator on multiple United Nations–aligned platforms, both on-site at the UN headquarters and through affiliated global convenings. She held this role during the 79th and 80th United Nations General Assemblies in partnership with the PVBLIC Foundation, guiding high-level discussions on gender-based violence, cross-sector collaboration, and the role of private capital in shaping long-term social outcomes.
Beyond the General Assembly, Angel has been entrusted to lead and facilitate UN-aligned forums and global summits in collaboration with organizations including the Aspire Artemis Foundation, The Dais, and the There Is No Limit Foundation. Across these platforms, she has facilitated cross-sector exchange among world leaders, policymakers, philanthropists, and industry heads on education access, STEAM empowerment, youth development, and social resilience.
Her ability to hold complex, high-stakes conversations with clarity, continuity, and discernment—while navigating diverse global perspectives—has established her as a trusted on-stage presence within the international social impact ecosystem.
Global Broadcast Dialogue & Independent Interviews
In addition to institutional convenings, Angel has led high-level conversations through international public media. She has hosted and interviewed across multiple segments for PBS, engaging in dialogue with global leaders, policymakers, and cultural figures.
Among these, she conducted an interview with the First Lady of Burkina Faso during an international event recognizing leadership in addressing gender-based violence. This conversation took place in conjunction with the Break the Silence Awards, presented in collaboration with the There Is No Limit Foundation, where Angel also served as Master of Ceremonies.
Across broadcast and public forums, she is trusted to navigate sensitive, high-stakes conversations with cultural fluency, gravity, and respect.
Creative Leadership & Cultural Contribution
Angel’s creative leadership functions as a long-arc extension of her humanitarian and institutional engagement, operating through storytelling, cultural authorship, and the creation of enduring platforms for dialogue and investment.
Through RealmWalker Films, she advances authored film and television projects that explore the human condition, social resilience, and collective responsibility. These projects are conceived as cultural frameworks rather than standalone productions, using narrative to surface complexity, expand perspective, and carry humanitarian principles beyond institutional and policy settings into lived experience.
In parallel, her sculptural art practice through ILLUMIN DESIGNS extends this leadership into material form. Her work has been presented in UN-aligned contexts, including during UN Peace Day, positioning art as a vehicle for sustainability, cultural dialogue, and long-term social investment. Each piece is conceived as a durable object of meaning, carrying values across time and context.
Together, her work in film, art, and cultural production reflects an integrated approach to leadership, where creative platforms serve as connective tissue between institutions, communities, and future generations. This practice allows humanitarian engagement to remain active beyond moments of crisis, embedding its principles into culture, narrative, and lived experience.
Angel approaches humanitarian work with the same discernment that defines her creative practice, engaging selectively, operating at institutional scale, and prioritizing engagement that contributes to durable, systems-level change.