Angelka Selle

Dr.  Angelika Selle -Visionary Founder of Transformative Vision - the Key to Lasting Peace

"From childhood on, I felt a calling to bring hope, light and happiness to others and dedicate my life to making a difference - especially toward peace, seeking to connect the sacred and the secular."

Dr. Angelika Selle held the positions of President of the Women’s Federation for World Peace USA (WFWP USA) and Vice President, North America, of WFWP International for 13 years (2010-2023). She launched the Global Women's Peace Network (GWPN), a project of WFWP International, in all regions of the United States and Canada (2012-2019).Dr. Selle is the recipient of several awards, including the Crown of Peace Award for “Exemplary Leadership in Reconciliation and Peacemaking” given by the Interreligious and International Peace Council based on her racial and religious reconciliation work in the United States, Africa and the Middle East.Earlier in her career, Dr. Selle worked with government officials; held the position of editor-in-chief of two magazines, the German-language Neue Hoffnung and Today’s World; and taught at an elementary school in Maryland. In 2001, Dr. Selle founded the Prayer in Action Ministry (Ministry of Self-Change) and in 2003 the Interfaith Prayer and Fellowship Ministry in Washington, D.C.During her tenure as President of WFWP USA, Dr. Selle focused on the organization’s grassroots development and empowering the next generation of women leaders. She initiated the HerStory Award, a recognition given to ordinary women who accomplish extraordinary things, and also created the Leadership of the Heart and the Bridge of Peace Curricula as tools for transformation and peacebuilding.Internationally, Dr. Selle spoke at several GWPN-related conferences, peace summits and webcasts to promote the feminine type of leadership and the leadership of the heart.Dr. Selle was awarded her Honorary Doctoral Degree by the My Life Theological University in December 2022.Born in Pforzheim, Germany, Dr. Selle studied at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and then followed her personal calling as a peace leader and agent for positive change. Inspired by a universal vision, philosophy of peace Dr. Selle began to work with various organizations founded by them to create a culture of peace.In 1983, Dr. Selle settled in the United States with her husband, Robert Selle, who is from Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Selle is an educator, inspirational speaker, writer, and Global Ambassador for Peace. She and Robert have been married for the last 41 years, and they are the proud parents of four children and have four grandchildren.

More about Dr. Selle

Inspirational Speaker

Dr. Selle has inspired thousands of people in diverse audiences — secular and sacred, including women, men and youth, in person and online, locally, nationally and internationally. She has motivated and empowered them to make choices based on their inner higher self/conscience. She has challenged them to rise above their personal, professional, institutional, and societal problems and to actively contribute to bringing solutions.

Global  Peace Ambassador

As a global peace leader Dr. Selle's passion and calling has been in creating bridges of the heart. Her focus has been in particular on racial and interreligious reconciliation and healing divisions through the philosophy of living by the logic of love.” She has pursued this work in Africa, the Middle East, Central America as well as here in the United States.

Peace Leader of the heart:

Dr. Selle is also founder of the Leadership of the Heart Curriculum, which aims to empower women and youth in particular to become leaders of the heart in their families, communities, nations, and spheres of influence. Women are the first educators of humanity and hold the key to happiness, especially in their families. Dr. Selle has shared this content online and in person with a variety of audiences, including some in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Marriage and Peace

Dr. Selle also introduces a new vision for marriage and the traditional family. She shares with her listeners and viewers, — older and younger — how to put this transformative vision into action based on her own experience and counseling others. Her hope is to affect positive change, especially in the current divorce culture, which is the culprit behind many social ills, and a deterrent for real peace.

Writer and Editor

Dr. Selle as an editor has created communication materials and written articles for newsletters, especially the Logic of Love News of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, and has contributed articles for various other publications such as the Empowering Humanity Magazine and others.

Educator/Coach

Dr. Selle, by nature, is an educator. With her more than four decades of experience in peace building, she enjoys sharing her knoweldge, wisdom and insights in that area with larger and smaller audiences.. Community organizations, nonprofit groups, church ministries, and social service institutions have appreciated her guidance on resolving social and relationship problems.