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The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she was the first Asian American woman to serve on the Boston City Council, from 2014 to 2021, and acted as its president from 2016–2018. She is the first woman and first non-white person to have been elected mayor of Boston.
Michelle Wu is the first woman and first person of color to be elected Mayor of Boston. The daughter of immigrants, a Boston Public Schools mom, and an MBTA rider, Mayor Wu believes that the key to solving our deepest challenges lies in building community and embracing possibility.
Nov 3, 2021 · BOSTON — Michelle Wu, who entered public service out of frustration with the obstacles that her immigrant family faced, will be the next mayor of Boston, pledging to make the city a proving ...
Nov 3, 2021 · Boston voters have elected City Councilor Michelle Wu as mayor, the city's first woman and person of color elected to the post. Wu, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan, broke a 199...
Nov 3, 2021 · She is the first woman and the first person of color to be elected mayor in Boston, which has been led by an unbroken string of Irish American or Italian American men since the 1930s. Kim Janey, a...
Oct 17, 2022 · When Michelle Wu became mayor of Boston just under a year ago, she was seen as a transformative figure — not only for what she represented as the first woman and first person of color to be ...
Meet Michelle. Michelle Wu is a mom, a daughter of immigrants, and a fierce believer that we can solve our deepest challenges through building community. As a Boston City Councilor, Michelle has worked in coalition to deliver bold, systemic change and redefine what is possible through activist city leadership across our neighborhoods.
