The first woman and person of color to be elected mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu claims her place among this year’s groundbreaking women. After a 199-year streak of white, male mayors, Wu is helping pave the way for women and people of color in American politics and causing all of us to ask, “how could it have taken this long?” Wu is no stranger to breaking streaks as she was also the first Asian American woman to serve on the Boston City Council, where she was elected president by her colleagues in a unanimous vote in January 2016.
