Term of Office:
January 2009 - January 2011

Angelika Schroeder is a former tax CPA and college professor of accounting. For the past 20 years she has also been active in education issues at her childrens schools, their district and at the state level.

She served from 1999 through 2007 on the Boulder Valley School Board, serving as treasurer and vice president. She was appointed in 1995 by Governor Romer as the parent representative to the Teacher and Special Service Professional Standards Board, an advisory board to the SBE on matters of Colorado teacher education, teacher licensing and professional educator standards.

Schroeder has also served on the boards and executive committees of the Colorado Association of School Boards and the Alliance for Quality Teaching. Until recently she served on the Committee of Practitioners, a CDE advisory group mandated under NCLB and is presently a member of the Public Education and Business Coalition and the Teacher Cadet Advisory Committee. Angelika also participated in the NSBA Federal Relations Network, communicating with members of Colorados legislative delegation in Washington D.C. on issues regarding NCLB and IDEA.

Schroeders areas of interest on the SBE are in the areas of budgeting and financial reporting, eliminating Colorados achievement gap, implementation of the governors CAP4K legislation and improving teacher services from CDE. She has been attending P-20 regular and several subcommittee meetings and meeting of the Teacher Quality Commission.

Angelika earned a B.A. in mathematics, an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in accounting, all from the University of Colorado. She and her husband Wayne have two grown daughters who attended neighborhood public schools in Boulder. Both are engaged in science and health education in Colorado.

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A Democrat, he was elected in 2008 to the CU Board of Regents to represent Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District. The son of immigrant parents from Eritrea, in northeast Africa, Neguse has spent most of his life in Colorado.

He graduated summa cum laude from CU-Boulder in 2005 with dual bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science. As CU-Boulder student body president and chair of the Intercampus Student Forum, he became a voice for nearly 54,000 students in the CU system before state agencies, the Colorado Legislature and the CU Board of Regents.

Neguse co-founded and directed the Fund Our Future Campaign, a grassroots effort aimed at increasing state funding for public higher education. Recognized widely for his efforts, Neguse became first CU student to be bestowed with an "emeritus" standing by the Board of Regents. Following his graduation, he served as the assistant to former speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, Rep. Andrew Romanoff.

He also has worked in the Boulder City Manager’s Office, and as an extern in Gov. Bill Ritter’s Office of Legal Counsel.

Currently a third-year graduate student at the CU Law School, he is a commissioner on the Boulder Housing Authority, appointed by the Boulder City Council, and is serving a three-year term on the CU Alumni Board of Directors.

Neguse bio from: www.colorado.gov/government/elected officials

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Westminster Office
8601 Turnpike Drive #206
Westminster, CO 80031
Phone: (303) 650-7820
Fax: (303) 650-7827

Washington D.C. Office
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Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2161
Fax: (202) 226-7840

Official Biography

Congressman Jared Polis of Boulder was elected to Congress in 2008 and represents the Second Congressional District of Colorado. Polis is a standing member of the House Science and Technology Committee, and serves on the House Rules Committee and the House Education and Labor Committee and Subcommittees on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, and Healthy Families and Communities. He is also the freshman member of the House Democratic Steering Committee and Vice Chairman and Whip of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition. To date, he is the first openly gay male elected to Congress. 

A Boulder native, born to parents active in the 1960s peace movement, Congressman Polis believes we need to build upon the legacy and idealism of our parents and is working in Congress to pragmatically to create a peaceful, prosperous, and safe world for generations to come. 

While attending Princeton University, Polis co-founded his first company, American Information Systems, and has since launched several successful business ventures, including: bluemountainarts.com, Proflowers.com and other online start-ups; a chain of movie theaters that screen first-run Hollywood films dubbed or subtitled in Spanish, including Cinema Latino in Aurora, CO; and most recently, Open Ocean Aquaculture.  He has been named an “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst and Young and one of America’s “Top Ten Young Entrepreneurs” by Success Magazine.

After his early and successful start in the business sector, Polis quickly came to realize and value the important role education plays in our economy.  He feels that education is the only meaningful, long-term stimulus initiative we can make to invest in and reinvigorate the American economy.

With this in mind, he ran for and won a seat on the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000 and served as the youngest Chairman in the history of the Board. During his six-year tenure, Polis strongly advocated school reform and enhancing educational opportunities. He played an instrumental role in the passage of Amendment 23 to improve state funding for public schools in Colorado. 

Also in 2000, Polis founded the Jared Polis Foundation to improve and expand access to education by awarding micro-grants to teachers and schools that have shown outstanding commitment to their community in education. The Foundation’s Community Computer Connection program refurbishes and donates more than 3,500 computers a year to schools and non-profit organizations that serve disadvantaged students.

Polis has also founded two innovative charter schools to help meet the needs of Colorado’s underserved students. In 2004, seeing the difficulty faced by older immigrant youth in mainstream public schools, he established and served as the superintendent of the New America School.  Today, the New America School operates four campuses in Colorado and planned campus in New Mexico to extend the benefits of English literacy and a high school liberal arts education to all students. In the fall of 2005 he co-founded the Academy of Urban Learning to address the challenges faced by teens who struggle with homelessness or unstable living conditions. 

Polis serves on the Board of Directors for the Colorado Conservation Voters, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, and the Anti-Defamation League. He has served as Vice-Chairman of the Colorado Commission for High School Improvement and Chairman of the National Association of State Boards of Education’s Commission on Financial and Investor Literacy.