Angelique Power

Angelique Power is the President and Chief Executive Officer at The Skillman Foundation. Power is an accomplished champion for racial justice who comes to the Foundation after serving as president of the Field Foundation in Chicago.

Also on the search committee were Skillman Foundation trustees Bill Emerson, vice-chairman of Rock Holdings, Inc.; Ron Hall Jr., president and CEO of Bridgewater Interiors; Denise Ilitch, an owner of Ilitch Family Companies and president of Ilitch Enterprises, LLC; Solomon Kinloch Jr., lead pastor at Triumph Church in Detroit; Mary Kramer, Skillman Foundation board chair and director, Detroit Homecoming, at Crain Communications; and one recently retired trustee, Dr. Herman Gray, chair of the Wayne State University Department of Pediatrics. The search was supported by the executive search firm Korn Ferry.

Born and raised on the southside of Chicago by a white, Jewish mother who was a Chicago Public School teacher and an African American father who rose to be Sergeant in the Chicago Police force, Power has an intense passion for catalyzing new ways of thinking about racial equity and social justice.