It was Angelique’s experience as a business owner, and a neighborhood activist, coupled with her earlier years as a single mother living in low-income housing, using food stamps and subsidized child care while attending law school and raising her son on her own, that gave her the perspective necessary to usher in a new day at Sacramento’s City Hall.
The safety of our families and communities is what matters most. On the City Council, Angelique expanded funding and programs to ensure our neighborhoods have more firefighters and emergency resources, brought diverse coalitions together to address neighborhood violence, and implemented important policing reforms like wearing body cameras. She championed Sacramento’s adoption of Breonna’s Law (making Sacramento, California’s first large city to ban no-knock drug raid warrants) and co-sponsored adoption of the national Black Lives Matter policy platform initiative, “8 That Can’t Wait.”
Many families were struggling before this pandemic. Covid-19, and all of its far-reaching impacts, have made those problems worse.
Angelique hasn’t been sitting on the sidelines — she’s been leading in Sacramento since the moment this crisis hit by supporting essential workers, expanding testing, funding internet access, establishing child care, dealing with mental health concerns, providing food to seniors and low-income households, setting up vaccination sites and helping small businesses as well as those who lost their employment.
In the State Senate, Angelique will continue to prioritize those hit hardest by this crisis — working families, children, communities of color, small businesses, and our seniors — by advocating for smart public policy that keeps people in their homes, expanding access to health care, and ensuring our schools are safe for all.
Angelique is a fearless advocate for neighborhoods and families. She’s been on the frontlines of efforts big and small — from installing speed bumps and stop signs, to helping secure hundreds of millions of dollars to revitalize neglected projects, build critical infrastructure, and bring thousands of high-wage jobs to the region.
When she’s in the State Senate, Angelique will prioritize our families by protecting workers, supporting small businesses, bringing jobs to our communities, securing funding for projects and infrastructure, and improving access to opportunity for everyone.
Angelique knows personally why we need to invest more in our youth. At twenty years old she was a young single mother working full time and attending college at night — often with a toddler in tow. She relied on food stamps, lived in low-income housing, and took advantage of subsidized child care to make ends meet. She graduated from UC Davis earning a degree in Sociology and went on to earn her law degree from the University of Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law — all while raising her young son on her own. The assistance she received with child care, afterschool programs, youth recreation, and academic scholarships made both her and her young son’s education possible.
When the government doesn’t work, our neighborhoods suffer. That’s why, when she was first elected, Angelique disrupted business-as-usual at City Hall.
On the City Council, Angelique established a code of ethics, an ethics commission, sunshine provisions, and a redistricting commission. She also led the implementation of mandated sexual harassment training, initiated an audit of the city’s gender and ethnic diversity, and established a new Office of Diversity and Equity which addresses implicit bias. She partnered with McKinsey Global Institute and Lean In to include government in their annual Women in Business global performance review and served as Chair to the citywide Good Governance Committee. She co-sponsored the ballot initiative which established an Independent Auditor and has twice taken the lead on audits to diversify citywide committees and commissions.
Too many families can’t afford their rent or mortgage — and too many of our neighbors end up unhoused on our streets. We can do better. We must.
Angelique introduced the homeless plan currently being implemented by City Hall, championed the expansion of St. John’s Women’s Shelter, helped pass policies promoting affordable housing, established the city’s housing trust fund, made the inclusionary housing ordinance apply citywide, built several affordable complexes in her district, helped fund downtown units through the Revitalization Corp, established millions of dollars annually to fund programs for women and children facing homelessness, hosted a citywide roundtable for service providers working with families experiencing homelessness, and worked to establish ongoing funding to house transition-age youth coming out of foster care.
We need to protect the environment and fight climate change at all levels. Angelique has been doing just that — supporting Sacramento’s 2012 Climate Action Plan and the 2019 Climate Emergency Resolution, fighting for habitat restoration and mitigation, and consistently voting against sprawl development.
In the State Senate, she will continue to be a champion for our planet and fight for those most impacted by the climate crisis — including our youth, working neighborhoods, and communities of color.
During her time in office, Angelique has helped cultivate our region’s rich arts and entertainment opportunities. She played a leading role in keeping the Sacramento Kings in our city, helped bring Major League Soccer to the 916, and led multiple efforts to enrich the region’s vibrant arts scenes.
As your State Senator, Angelique will continue to support efforts — and secure funding — that make our community Northern California’s entertainment and arts capital.
For more than half of the 12 years Angelique has served on the Sacramento City Council, she was the only woman on the nine-member Council. This has made it important to her that she focus on women’s issues, and is why she has spearheaded a number of events, reports, and policies focused on women. Through these actions she has become a trusted leader and known advocate for women’s issues at City Hall and throughout the city of Sacramento.