Angie Encerrado Rance

Angie Encerrado-Rance has been a Parks and Recreation Professional for over 14 years. She has worked overseeing the operations of community centers for most of that time starting with the City of El Paso, TX in 2010, where she was born and raised, then moved to work for the City of Seattle, WA in 2014. Currently, Angie works for the City of Shoreline, WA as a Recreation Supervisor II.  When Angie first started working with Parks and Recreation in 2010 it was just a “job” out of college but quickly fell in love with all the work that Parks and Recreation does and committed to making it her career. Moving to the state of Washington really highlighted the benefits of being bilingual and Angie made it a mission to normalize translating documents and promotional items into Spanish and other languages whenever possible. Working for the City of Seattle, homelessness was a major public health issue and Angie was able to worked with department superintendents, the mayor of Seattle and built several community partnership to create a program that offered free showers to the unsheltered allowing her facility to go from an average of 200 showers in 2014 to over 6,000 in 2016. Angie has a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Texas, El Paso. In 2018, Angie obtained her Certified Parks and Recreation Professional Certification and assisted the City of Shoreline obtain CAPRA accreditation in 2019. Angie is a graduate of the Northwest Women’s Leadership Academy (May 2022), a Washington State organization working to advance women working in local government into leadership roles. Angie has been a presenter at Washington Recreation and Parks Association (WRPA) state conference and at the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) national conference. In May of 2024, Angie was awarded the Mickey Corso Professional Leadership Grant through the Washington Recreation and Parks Association. As a tribute to Mickey Corso and the leadership he provided in the field of parks and recreation, his family, friends, and co-workers established the Mickey Corso Leadership Grant. This grant is awarded to professionals looking to continue their education in the field of recreation and parks. The grant can be used to pursue trainings such as NRPA schools other opportunities relating to recreation and park leadership. Angie is hoping to be a Parks and Recreation Department Director one day and will be using this grant to attend NRPA’s Revenue Development and Management School. She is excited for the opportunity to enhance her skills and knowledge and be better prepared to lead a Parks and Recreation team. Angie enjoy sporting events, music concerts and fishing with her husband (biggest fish she caught is a King Salmon about 12lbs) amongst other Pacific Northwest activities. She has a son and daughter that she loves singing, dancing and sharing traditions with.