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.
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.