Bio

Angela Greenman is an internationally recognized communications professional. Her career has spanned the spectrum from community relations in Chicago to US and world governments’ public communications on nuclear power.

She has been an expert and lecturer with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for over a decade, and developed the communication standards for the IAEA’s Corporate Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) program. Ms. Greenman also participated as a team member for the France and Czech Republic Corporate OSARTs.

The IAEA published two of her papers, Communicating Risk to the Public and Achieving Successful Communication. At the invitation of the IAEA, she spoke at the agency’s prestigious International Conference “Topical Issues at Nuclear Installation Safety: Continuous Improvement of Nuclear Safety in a Changing World” that was held in Beijing, China.

As a spokesperson for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), she advised senior management and staff on media issues, conducted interviews and press conferences, and was actively involved in public meetings. Her guidelines,  Conducting Public Meetings, were published by the NRC. She was a recipient of multiple awards from the agency.

In Chicago, she served as press officer for the Chicago Human Relations Commission, the City’s civil rights department. In this position, she worked with the department’s six community advisory councils, and managed city-wide media campaigns, community meetings, and events.

Ms. Greenman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communications with Honors from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She also received advanced training in the Executive Media Relations program of the Chicago Police Department, and studied at the U.S. NRC’s Technical Training Center.

She has traveled the world (21 countries and counting), sailed the turquoise Caribbean waters, and now her imagination is devising plots in the exciting places she has explored for her new chapter as an author.