21 Facts About Michelle Wu

Michelle Wu is an American lawyer and politician who has been the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, since 2021.

Michelle Wu authored ordinances to have the city protect wetlands, support adaption to climate change, enact a plastic bag ban, adopt Community Choice Aggregation, and provide paid parental leave to municipal employees.

Michelle Wu has announced plans for the city to spend $2 billion on school construction projects as part of a "Green New Deal" for the city's public schools.

Michelle Wu reached a contract agreement with the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association that secured the union's agreement to significant reforms within the Boston Police Department.

Michelle Wu was born on January 14,1985, in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, to Han and Yu-Min Wu.

Michelle Wu's parents are Taiwanese American immigrants to the United States.

Michelle Wu finished in second place to incumbent Ayanna Pressley, with the top four finishers being elected to the council.

Michelle Wu was re-elected in 2015,2017, and 2019, placing second behind Pressley in 2015 and placing first in both 2017 and 2019.

Michelle Wu argued that it will assist in preventing people of color from being pushed out of Boston.

Michelle Wu was regarded to be challenging Walsh from the political left.

Michelle Wu has supported the resolution authored by Senator Ed Markey and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to recognize a duty of the federal government to create a Green New Deal.

Michelle Wu then unveiled a proposed home rule petition in August 2022 that would see the city request entrance to the state's pilot program for municipalities to ban fossil fuels from most new buildings, with the exception of labs and hospitals.

Michelle Wu did this with while engaging in talks with the MBTA to further extend the pilot program.

Michelle Wu called for the city to provide assistance for entrepreneurs of color as well as support for small neighborhood businesses.

Michelle Wu called for greater government transparency regarding corporate tax breaks, and introduced an ordinance in 2019 that was aimed at accomplishing that.

Michelle Wu further argued that Boston should set an example for the rest of the county in free access to transit, likening it to past municipal innovations the city introduced.

Michelle Wu opened a teahouse, hoping her mother might recover enough to run it.

Michelle Wu became the legal guardian of her youngest sibling, and became actively involved in the sibling's education at the Eliot School of Boston.

Michelle Wu shared that one of her two miscarriages had been a so-called "missed miscarriage" that had occurred at an early stage of pregnancy.

Michelle Wu further shared that following the discovery that she had had this miscarriage, she took Mifepristone and Misoprostol to aid her body in removing the fetal remains.

Michelle Wu took refresher lessons at Berklee College of Music prior to performing George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as a guest soloist with the Boston Pops in September 2024.