She has pursued this philosophy through her practice and advocacy with policy organizations, leading to mainstream recognition such as the USA Network 2010 Character Approved Award. Angie was a co-founder and past President of Livable Places, Inc., a non-profit development company dedicated to building sustainable mixed-use housing in Los Angeles on under-utilized parcels of land as a reaction against Southern California’s suburban sprawl.

She received the National AIA Young Architects Award in 2009 and her firm has received nineteen National AIA awards, five Top Ten Green Building awards, the State of California and National AIA Architecture Firm Award in 2010 and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture in 2014.