Angelique Power is the president & CEO of The Skillman Foundation, a private independent foundation that puts all its resources toward brilliant Detroit youth—their justice, their power, and their promise. With assets over $500 million, The Skillman Foundation provides approximately $24 million in grants annually.

Angelique has an intense passion for catalyzing new ways of thinking about racial equity and social justice. Prior to The Skillman Foundation, she was president of the Chicago-based Field Foundation, a program director at the Joyce Foundation, and a senior executive at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Angelique serves on the boards of Bas Blue, Detroit’s private club for women and nonbinary individuals; Culture Source; Detroit Future City; the Detroit Public Theater; Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue; Michigan Future, Inc, a bipartisan policy think tank; The Parade Company; Plowshares Theatre Company; and United States Artists, a national fund that awards artists across the country $50,000 annually to celebrate their work. Angelique is the recipient of the Michigan League for Public Policy’s 2024 Champion for Kids Award. She has a BA from University of Michigan and both an MFA and an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

To connect with Angelique, please contact Arnett Parham at aparham@skillman.org.