Angela Foster has been a leader in community education since moving to the U.S. from London in 1970. She was a founding teacher and later program director of the Aspen Community School. In the late 1980s she organized and ran a Soviet-American exchange program based at Colorado Rocky Mountain School, and later served as an advisor to a master’s degree program in educational developmental psychology, a collaboration between the University of Colorado Denver, Stanley British Primary School and the Denver Public Schools. Foster has served on the boards of the Colorado Rocky Mountain School, the Aspen Community School and the Aspen Times.