Friends and community members shared positive memories of Oakland bakery owner Jen Angel, who died Thursday, days after a violent robbery left her grievously injured.
Thursday night, members of a group speaking on her family’s behalf said they hoped her communities would draw strength from her life’s efforts and the care she modeled and drew support from.
“Jen believed in a world where everyone has the ability to live a dignified and joyful life and worked toward an ecologically sustainable and deeply participatory society in which all people have access to the things they need, decisions are made by those most directly affected by them, and all people are free and equal.”
“Most of the people in Oakland who experience the type of violence Jen experienced are young Black and Brown people who do not receive the level of focus, attention, or support that Jen has,” Emily Harris, a friend of Angel and a co-director of programs at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, said Thursday.
Angel’s activist and organizing energies followed her into her founding of Angel Cakes in 2008, where she helped provide baked goods for community events, weddings and catered events, and spent long hours at the former TJ’s Gingerbread House site on Fifth Street, honing creativity in service of connection.
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