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 firs
Wu in 2024
With Elizabeth Warren while working on Warren's 2012 Senate campaign
At the 2015 Dorchester Day Parade
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
Maura Tracy Healey is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 20
Michelle Wu
…on the annual list, which had been expanded to now list 150 individuals. In 2024, the magazine ranked Wu as second on the list behind only Governor Maura Healey, describing the two as being the city's "power duo". In 2025, she was ranked seventh on the list, with Governor Healey again ranked one spot above her…
Healey (right) and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley at a July 8, 2010, press conference on the Massachusetts v. U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Servs. lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act
Healey's official attorney general photo, 2015
Healey (far right) in 2016 with (left to right): State Senator Karen Spilka, State Rep. Ken Gordon, U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, and State Rep. John Scibak