What is De Angela up to right now?
(This brilliant idea is taken from Derek Siver’s now page.)
De Angela currently lives, works, and plays in New York City. Professionally, she is an Associate Vice Provost and Industry Professor at NYU, deeply involved with teaching and learning with generative AI, but for her now page, she will focus primarily on her personal passion projects, which more often than not evolve around Prince:
- Planning her weekly, online book club series, What Did Prince Do This Week? #WDPDTW
- Planning her first 3-day hybrid symposium for April 17–19, 2026, #IWonderU40, celebrating Prince’s album Parade, the accompanying tour, his directorial debut for the film Under The Cherry Moon, and reflecting on a decade since his passing.
- Planning her next 2-day virtual symposium for November 2026, #CDE30, celebrating Prince’s Chaos & Disorder and Emancipation albums.
One day, she hopes to create some recap video reels for the following Prince symposia that she curated and organized:
- the 2-day, virtual #Shhh30, celebrating 30 years of Prince’s The Gold Experience and The NPG’s Exodus on September 20–21, 2025;
- the 3-day, virtual #PopLife40, celebrating 40 years of Prince’s Around The World In A Day, The Family, and Sheila E.’s Romance 1600 on April 11-13, 2025;
- the 2-day, virtual #Come30 for 30 years of Prince’s Come on August 10-11, 2024;
- the 3-day #EroticCity40 at NYU to celebrate the four albums that defined 1984—Prince’s Purple Rain, The Time’s Ice Cream Castle, Apollonia 6, and Sheila E’s The Glamorous Life—alongside the Purple Rain film on Friday, April 12–Sunday, April 14, 2024; and
- the 3-day #TripleThreat40 at NYU, celebrating Prince for 40 years of the albums 1999, What Time Is It?, and Vanity 6 on Friday, March 31, 2023–Sunday, April 2, 2023.
Last Updated October 8, 2025