By SDUN Staff

North Park Main Street (NPMS) has appointed a new executive director.

Angela Landsberg, 42, is NPMS’ selection, out of the 120 people who applied for the position, to lead the community organization for the year ahead.

“We received about 120 resumes, which we filtered down to 22,” said president of NPMS’ board of directors David Muscat, adding that NPMS formed a separate committee and hired two independent consultants to
ensure the decision would be made as impartially as possible.

The role of the executive director, Muscat said, is multi-fold: The director must possess “the ability to run the administrative side of a nonprofit and be able to interface with [city councilmembers].” Ideally, a director
will also be a resident of the area, although this is not necessary. However, the main criteria is
less where the person lives than possessing the objectivity to see issues from both business owners’
and residents’ perspectives. He or she must also have events planning and grant writing experience,
Muscat added.

Landsberg, who lived in South Park for 12 years before moving, in 2008, to North Park, where she’s lived periodically since childhood, replaces NPMS’ former executive director, Liz Studebaker, who held the oneyear-
term position since January 2007.

Landsberg, whose former positions include campaign manager for Christine Kehoe’s re-election campaign for City Council in 1995 and legislative representative in District 3 City Council, says she’s “thrilled and honored” to have been selected to the position.

“The former executive director left big shoes to fill with her many accomplishments, but I am confident and up to the challenge of bringing North Park to its next level of success,” Landsberg said.

The petite, vibrant Landsberg, who lives with her two daughters and her dog, Rosebud, said she loves North Park’s diversity and friendliness. ““I raised my daughters here, and enjoy that our neighborhood is a mix of people from other places as well as residents who have been here for generations. The community has so much to offer, and the restaurants are some of the best in San Diego.”

Asked about her goals in the year ahead, Landsberg said that North Park has gained a national reputation as a destination for arts, culture and entertainment and she intends “to support the existing businesses, bring in new businesses that enhance the vision of North Park, and bring additional resources to the area to increase the revitalization of this unique community.”