Wu appoints her economic-development chief

By adamg on Thu, 11/18/2021 - 11:00pm

Segun Idowu, currently executive director of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, will leave that post on Jan. 3 to take up where John Barros left off when he resigned the post to run for mayor earlier this year.

Tonight’s announcement by @revrenddoctor

Appointed by @MayorWu as the Chief of Economic Development for the @CityOfBoston #bospoli #BlackMan pic.twitter.com/z6PrjIzvDf

— James ‘Jimmy’ Hills aka #javawithJimmy (@javawithJimmy) November 19, 2021

Idowu ran for state representative in Mattapan, Roslindale and Hyde Park in 2018.

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Comments

What is his business/finance background?

By anon on Thu, 11/18/2021 - 11:10pm.

Interested to hear about what he’s been doing in that sphere.

Do you ask that every time

By Anon on Fri, 11/19/2021 - 8:23pm.

Do you ask that every time someones appointment is announced on uhub or other media or just when it's a black person. If you really were curious you could have simply looked it up.

Does anyone know why his

By anon on Fri, 11/19/2021 - 4:09am.

Does anyone know why his Twitter is private? Seems a bit odd for someone just appointed to a high profile city position

He is scrubbing the problematic tweets

By StillFromDorchester on Fri, 11/19/2021 - 5:20pm.

Is my guess.

It went public again later

By anon on Fri, 11/19/2021 - 9:44pm.

It went public again later today. Definitely a bit odd...