Lily Wu—a 39-year-old immigrant, political novice, and registered member of the Libertarian Party—has just been elected mayor of Wichita, Kansas, one of the 50 largest cities in the United States.
Wu, who will become the first Asian-American mayor in Wichita's 153-year history, arrived in the United States from Guatemala when she was just 8 years old. The first person in her family to attend college, she graduated from Wichita State University with international business and marketing degrees. For the past 12 years, she's been a local television reporter, a career she says was inspired by the fact that she learned English by watching the news.
