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.
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.