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.
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.