About — Angelea Hayes

Angelea Hayes is a published poet and aspiring author and screenwriter. She is a recent graduate from Pepperdine University, where she received her Bachelor’s in Creative Writing and Minor in Sustainability. As a Global Fellow in Pepperdine’s world-renowned study abroad program, she has studied in Kaikoura, New Zealand; London, England; and Lausanne, Switzerland. In Fall 2021, she studied and took classes in the Pepperdine Washington, D.C. program.

Angelea grew up in Burbank, CA in the heart of the entertainment industry. She has been involved in performing arts groups since middle school, including the nationally competitive show choir at John Burroughs High School. Through this award-winning program, she has performed in gigs for major companies including Walt Disney Studios and the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. Her senior year of high school, she was chosen as a delegate for the Burbank Sister City Committe. That summer, she traveled to Ota, Japan with the other delegates to represent her city and her country as she met local families and engaged with city officials. In college, she joined Pepperdine’s Concert Choir and debuting cheer team. As a Waves cheerleader, she went to the West Coast Conference championship in Las Vegas, Nevada to cheer on the basketball team and appeared on ESPN.

During her first year at university, three of Angelea’s poems were selected for publication in different writing journals and anthologies. That year, she also started the Social Action and Justice Colloquium, where she took Diversity in the Media and Climate Change Justice. In the summer of 2019, she took an intensive four-week course in Christianity and Sustainability in New Zealand, where she learned more about her passion for creation care. Since then, she has created a platform for advocacy on Instagram and Facebook to document her transition to a more sustainable lifestyle as a college student and to engage others in the conversation surrounding the climate crisis.

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Through BeTheGreenHope, she was able to plan, organize, and host a free community screening of the documentary Paris to Pittsburgh at her home church, complete with a coffee bar and a Q&A discussion, featuring a pop-up shop with a local secondhand business. She served as a Climate Action Fellow in the Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA) Climate Leadership program from 2020-2021, where she had the unique opportunity to engage in leadership training with the top environmental actors in the nation and collaborate with other activists. In Washington, D.C., Angelea was an intern for SojoAction, the advocacy branch of Sojourners Magazine.

As a senior, Angelea is a member of the Pepperdine Sigma Tau Delta chapter. This spring, she will be presenting her poetry at the International English Convention this spring.