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Michelle Wu (Chinese: 吳弭; [1] born January 14, 1985) [2][3] is an American politician serving as the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, since 2021. 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.
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.
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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.
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- Wu was a small business owner in Chicago and a key caregiver for her family. Soon after she graduated from Harvard University in 2008, Wu, then 23, moved back home to Chicago — not necessarily by choice.
- Wu was elected to the City Council in 2013 and made history as the council president. Wu won her first bid for public office when she was elected to the Boston City Council in 2013.
- As a new councilor, Wu, a staunch progressive, quickly made waves for supporting a conservative councilor’s bid to helm the council. Not long after being elected to the City Council, Wu was already criticized by some who supported her.
- When Airbnb went after Wu — she fired back. In the battle to establish some of the toughest regulations on short-term rental properties in the United States, Airbnb targeted Wu for her proposals.
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 · 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 ...
Michelle Wu. Mayor, Boston. From the Editor. Soon after becoming Boston Mayor in 2021, Michelle Wu signed a bill to fully divest the city from fossil fuels and began efforts to invest $400 million ...
