Michelle Wu – Bio, Net Worth, Age, Salary, Party, Married, Husband, Family, Nationality, Job, Height, Parent, Facts, Wiki, Career, Election, Education

Michelle Wu is an American lawyer and politician who is famous for being a member of the Boston City Council. She is the first Asian-American lady to serve on the board. First elected in 2013, she has served on the Boston City Council since January 2014. From January 2016 to January 2018, she served as council president-the first woman of color to hold that position.  She is viewed as a political reformist and has been known as a “protégée” of Elizabeth Warren, whom Wu considers a mentor. served as council president-the first woman of color to hold that position. In addition, she has advocated “demilitarizing” the Boston Police Department and establishing an unarmed community safety crisis response system that would assume responsibility for nonviolent 9-1-1 calls. Wu has also proposed a municipal “Green New Deal” for Boston. Her political party is democratic. In September 2020, she declared her office for the 2021 Boston mayoral political race. The Boston Magazine listed Michelle Wu at number 31 in “The 100 Most Influential People in Boston list” published in April of 2018.

Boston’s next mayor will make history as Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George advance to a runoff

Michelle Wu, the top vote-getter in Tuesday’s runoff, will face fellow city councilor Annissa Essaibi George in the November 2 mayoral election, CBS Boston station WBZ reports. Essaibi George trailed Wu by more than 11,700 votes, according to unofficial results posted by the city Wednesday.  “The race is over,” Essaibi George told WBZ-TV Wednesday morning. “We’re confident in these results. We’re confident in our finish in this race and we’re excited to participate in this next half of this campaign.” “I want to congratulate Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George on their victories this evening,” Kim Janey said in a statement Tuesday night. “This was a spirited and historic race, and I wish them both luck in the final election.” Earlier this year, Janey became the first Black Bostonian and the first woman to occupy the city’s top office in an acting capacity after former Mayor Marty Walsh stepped down to become President Joe Biden’s labor secretary. “This is a moment in Boston where we are facing big challenges. I’m running for mayor to tackle big challenges with bold solutions that include everyone. So I know what’s possible,” Wu told. 

Famous For

• Being a lawyer as well as a politician from the USA. 
• Being a member of the Boston City Council.
• Being the first Asian-American woman to serve on the council, and only the second Asian American member to serve on the council.

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What Ethnicity is Michelle Wu? Details About Her Age, Parents, Education

Michelle Wu was born on 14th January 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, the USA. She holds American nationality and her ethnicity is mixed of Asian-Taiwanese-American. She was born to her parents who emigrated to the USA from Taiwan. She was born as the oldest of four children. Thus, she has three siblings. Her first language was Mandarin Chinese. Wu’s parents eventually divorced. When Wu was in her early twenties, her mother developed severe mental illness, and Wu began taking care of her and raising her two youngest siblings. Her Zodiac sign falls under Capricorn and she follows the Christianity religion. Her present age is 36 as of 2021. She has never disclosed her parents’ and siblings’ names to the media. 

About Michelle’s education, she graduated from Barrington High School in the year 2003, where she was valedictorian. In 2003, she was selected as a U.S. Presidential Scholar from the state of Illinois. During the 2002–2003 school year, Wu was also the President of the National Junior Classical League. She then moved to the Boston area to attend college at Harvard University, where she concentrated on economics and graduated in 2007. In 2010, Wu also graduated from Emerge Massachusetts, an intensive training program for women who aspire to seek elected office. She later graduated from Harvard Law School in 2012. 

Michelle Wu Political Career Timeline

• Michelle Wu initially worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group after graduated from college. Then, she started a teahouse business in order to financially support her family.
• She returned to Massachusetts to earn her J.D. from Harvard Law School. It was in the year 2009. 
• After a year, she worked in Boston City Hall for Mayor Thomas M. Menino in the Office of Administration and Finance. After then, she worked as a Rappaport Fellow in Law and Public Policy under Menino’s Chief of Staff Mitch Weiss.
• Moreover, she also created the Restaurant Roadmap guide to opening a restaurant in Boston, as well as spearheaded the Boston Food Truck Challenge which resulted in three food trucks opening on City Hall Plaza.
• She then began working at the Boston Medical Center-based Medical-Legal Partnership, providing legal services to low-income patients. 
• She worked as the Constituency Director for Warren’s 2012 campaign against Scott Brown in 2012 and coordinated outreach to all constituency groups, including communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community, veterans, and women.
• Since January 2014, she has been a member of the Boston City Council, having been first elected in November 2013 and re-elected three times, most recently in November 2019. She finished in second place to incumbent Ayanna Pressley; the top four finishers are elected to the council. She became the first Asian American woman to serve on the council, and only the second Asian American member to serve on the council.
• She served as president of the council from January 2016 to January 2018 and was its first woman of the color president and first Asian American.
• She faced controversy in the weeks prior to taking office when it was reported that Wu had decided she would be voting for Bill Linehan to serve as the president of the Boston City Council. 
• She successfully became the first city councilor in Boston history to give birth while serving on the Boston City Council in late 2014.
• During her third term on the city council, she threw her support behind Kim Janey to be the next president of the City Council. 
• In the weeks before the start of the 2020-22 Boston City Council term, the elected members were initially sharply divided in their support between Janey and Matt O’Malley where Wu played an important role in helping Janey secure the support to become City Council president. 
• She also delivered the motion to nominate Janey to be the council’s president on 6th January 2020, and Janey was successfully elected.
• She has chaired powerful committees, including the Post Audit and Oversight Committee during her tenure. 
• In August 2020, Wu released plans for a Green New Deal for the city of Boston.
• During the COVID-19, Wu voiced support for implementing a vaccine passport program, requiring people to be vaccinated for indoor dining and other public indoor activities in August 2021. 
• For 2021, Wu is forgoing seeking a fifth term on the City Council and is instead running for mayor.
• Michelle Wu has also endorsed Lydia Edwards’ unsuccessful campaign in the special election for the Suffolk and Middlesex Massachusetts Senate district in 2016, endorsed Jay Gonzalez’s unsuccessful campaign in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election in 2018, endorsed Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign in a speech at Warren’s official campaign launch on February 9, 2019. 
• On September 15, she posted a video on Twitter announcing her entrance into the 2021 Boston mayoral election. Upon her entrance into the race, Wu declared that she was running a “people-powered campaign to bring new leadership to Boston’s executive office”.
• On January 9, Senator Elizabeth Warren endorsed Wu for mayor. In polling, by early September, she was regarded to have established herself as the nonpartisan primary election’s front-runner. Lisa Kashinsky of Politico described Wu’s polling lead as, “commanding”. 

Who is Michelle Wu married to?

Michelle Wu is a married woman. She tied a knot to her longtime boyfriend turned husband, Conor Pewarski in September 2012. He proposed Wu in the Cambridge Common, across from Harvard Law School, and then got engaged in December 2011. The duo is also blessed with two children; two sons namely Blaise (born 2014) and Cass (born 2017). Currently, the duo is enjoying their present life happily with her mother in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood and there is no sign of divorce between them. Her sexual orientation is straight. 

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What is Michelle Wu Net Worth and Salary?

Michelle Wu is a talented and successful politician as well as a lawyer who has made an average amount of money. As of September 2021, the net worth of Michelle Wu is $2 Million whereas her exact salary details are unavailable at a moment but there is no doubt in the mind of her followers that she is making a considerable amount of money from her present work. Her major source of wealth comes from her political career.