Angelica Ramos-Allen is a political and public policy professional with more than 15 years of experience in campaign management, strategic planning, policy development, and coalition building. An advocate for historically underinvested communities, Angelica is a subject matter expert in the legal rights of children within systems and society. As the Director of Policy and Communications at Grail Family Services in East San Jose, she leads community impact efforts to develop a community-focused policy agenda based on family voices and authentic engagement. Prior to arriving at GFS, Angelica served for five years as a lead policy advisor for Children & Families in the office of Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg after managing her successful 2018 campaign. In this role, Angelica developed and created the policy agenda for Supervisor Ellenberg’s first term. Her work led directly to the development of the first-ever Children’s Budget for Santa Clara County. Angelica also previously served as Deputy Director of Operations and Strategy for Build the Future, a community-led project advocating for affordable childcare in Santa Clara County.

Dedicated to increasing the participation of women in all levels of leadership, Angelica serves as President of the National Women’s Political Caucus of California (NWPC CA), where she runs the operations of a longtime grassroots organization originally founded by Gloria Steinem. In this role, she leads a cohort of thousands of activists in the fight to elect progressive, pro-choice women to public office.She also holds leadership positions within the local & state Democratic Party and the San José Library Commission. For more than a decade, Angelica has run and advised on multiple campaigns with a near perfect win rate, most of which supported and elevated pro-choice female candidates. Dedicated to ensuring that there is proper infrastructure to support the recruitment, training, and support of pro choice, progressive female candidates, she founded two chapters of the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC): Orange County and Silicon Valley. Through this work she created and implemented several training and advocacy opportunities for NWPC members to engage with, such as the NWPC SV’s partnership with the San Jose Chamber of Commerce in 2014 to push for an equal pay pledge and a first-of-its-kind grant funded campaign staffer training fellowship program.

Angelica earned her BA from the American University, her JD with a specialization in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice from Whittier College School of Law and a graduate certificate in Early Childhood Policy and Advocacy from the University of Florida. She is a past fellow of CORO NorCal, the OpEd Project, and the Children’s Defense Fund of California and has been recognized with 40 under 40 awards from the Silicon Valley Business Journal, the National Association of Asian Pacifics in Politics and Public Affairs, and was recently named as the AD26 Woman of the Year by Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens.