About me
Angel Gomez started his career in afterschool in December 2011 at the Midvale Boys & Girls Club. He started as a 17 year old needing to do court-ordered community service, but had people that believed in him and gave him a shot as a Youth Development Professional serving the Midvale Community. Angel spent the next 5 years learning and immersing himself in Boys & Girls Club culture and learned about what afterschool meant to a lot of people. He soon realized that there was a larger community to the great work that we do in out-of-school time. He then spent some time working with the Utah Afterschool Network as an Out-of-School Time Specialist providing support to programs in Salt Lake County as well as most of the eastern portion of the State of Utah. Angel now finds himself providing direct service again as a Senior Community Programs Manager for the YouthCity-Fairpark program under Salt Lake City which he had the privilege of opening in January 2022 with the support of his mentors. This year, he was named one of Afterschool Alliance’s Afterschool Ambassadors where he supports advocacy efforts around the state to push the message of afterschool programming to legislators and the larger community. Angel loves networking with people. If you see him around, come say hey!