President, The Field Foundation
As President of the Field Foundation, Angelique designed a journey with staff, board and nonprofit partners to center racial justice in the Foundation’s work. Over the past four years, Field Foundation has changed how it funds, who it funds, has created accountability structures for community to review its work, rethought metrics, created heatmaps that illustrate the design of inequity within Chicago and has updated its investment policy.
Through strategic partnerships with other foundations, under Angelique’s tenure the Field Foundation has doubled the size of its giving and its programming – allowing it to fund in the areas of Justice, Art, Leadership Investment and Media & Storytelling. These partnerships allow Field Foundation to fund individuals, for profit organizations along with nonprofits. Additionally, in 2020 the Field Foundation relocated to the nation’s first collaborative community workspace dedicated to social impact entitled FBRK Impact House, an entity she co-conceptualized with former Chicago Bear, Israel Idonije.
Power chairs the boards of 6018North and Enrich Chicago, an organization she co-founded, dedicated to racial equity in the arts and serves on the board of Forefront Illinois and the Advisory Committee of the Illinois Justice Project. Angelique co-chaired Mayor Lightfoot’s Transition Team, serves on the Mayor’s Taskforce for COVID Recovery and is a 2015 Fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago.