Michelle Wu

Mayor of Boston since 2021 · United States · On the map · Politicians · Born 1985 · age 41

Michelle Wu is an American lawyer and politician who has been the mayor of Boston since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she is one of the youngest mayors in the city's history, and is the first woman and the first Asian American to be elected to the office.

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2025“A city that's scared is not a city that's safe. A land ruled by fear is not the land of the free.”In their words05 March 2025 "Mayor Michelle Wu's Opening Statement to the House Committee on Oversight"Read the whole statement

2024“Boston is the birthplace of public education - founded on the belief that knowledge belongs to everyone. But we have yet to deliver on that vision.”In their words09 January 2024 "Mayor Wu's State of the City Address"Read the whole statement

2023“There is no statute of limitations on addressing wrongs that we have the ability to make right.”In their words7 February 2023 "Reparations Task Force 2/7/23"Read the whole statement

“We’re charting a new course for growth, with people as our compass.”In their words25 January 2023 "Mayor Wu's State of the City Address"Read the whole statement

“It can feel surreal and stressful, exhausting and empowering - it feels like the most important work in the world.”In their words25 January 2023 "Mayor Wu's State of the City Address"Read the whole statement

2022“If we want Boston to be a thriving, competitive, global city...we can’t continue to sabotage ourselves by taking a piecemeal, reactive, bare-minimum approach to public transit.”In their words14 October 2022 "Economic Impacts of Inadequate Transit Maintenance and Oversight: Examining Management Failures at the Massachusetts BayRead the whole statement

1985Born14 January 1985

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With Elizabeth Warren while working on Warren's 2012 Senate campaign

Campaigning for Boston City Council in 2013

At the 2015 Dorchester Day Parade

Wu in 2018

Wu with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren; Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins; and Lawrence, Massachusetts Mayor Dan Rivera at an event for Warren's 2020 presidential campaign

Wu campaigning for mayor in September 2021

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Every young person deserves to grow up in a city with wide open spaces that coax our legs into running - that remind us to breathe deep and look up at the sky.
9 January 2024 · 09 January 2024 "Mayor Wu's State of the City Address", Own words
Together, we can build a Boston that’s more green than concrete. Where housing is a given, not a godsend, and mobility is the minimum, not a miracle.
25 January 2023 · 25 January 2023 "Mayor Wu's State of the City Address", Own words
Boston is a city that will never stop reaching - up toward the progress we know to be possible, and out to the community whose work makes it lasting.
25 January 2023 · 25 January 2023 "Mayor Wu's State of the City Address", Own words