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Angelina Vega
BY HEATHER G. SOWALD
Angelina Vega has found her own way to express emotions, be creative, tell her own truth and emotionally influence an audience. It was an outlet for her both through law school as an older student and currently as the in-house counsel for the National Veterans Memorial and Museum. Her ways of expression are through both creative writing and performance art.
band performer, Coast Guard gunner’s mate and Nordstrom salesperson. She later put herself through college at the University of New Mexico, and just as she graduated at age 32 with a degree in economics and acceptance to The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law (J.D. 2017), her first marriage collapsed. Like any good student, she started as a stagehand in this new sideline of vaudeville, went to every pin-
Angelina was raised by her military mother, moving from city to city until they settled in Westerville when Angelina was in fifth grade. In high school, she was in the drama department, played the marimba and hand percussion in the drum and bugle corps, and played the tuba in concert band. After high school, she first ended up in southern California to be in a “terrible but fun” rock band, before moving on to other states and finally returning to central Ohio. While she was in law school, she met her husband, Chad, a general manager in the logistics industry. Angelina found herself responding to a post looking for body-positive dancers at a transformative point in her life. She had tried a variety of different occupations over the years, including campus police officer, rock 6 8 | C o lu m b u s B a r L aw y e r s Q u a rt e r ly S p r i n g 2 0 2 2
Angelina with her husband, Chad
