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Brookline residents and advocacy groups urge reinstatement of Chi Chi Wu as Select Board debates appointments to diversity commission
Summary
Dozens of residents and advocacy groups defended Chi Chi Wu at the Select Board meeting, calling the board’s Dec. 2 vote not to reappoint her unfair; the board questioned whether applicants’ past social-media posts risked alienating communities and heard interviews from candidates including Carrie Goldberg (who withdrew) and Masha Kogan.
Select Board members heard an extended public outcry on Dec. 16 over the board’s decision not to reappoint Chi Chi Wu to the Commission on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Relations.
“I was shocked, dismayed, and, frankly, embarrassed by the discussion and decision by this select board against reappointing Chi Chi Wu,” Lisa Geisbond, a Precinct 12 resident, told the board, saying the Dec. 2 vote left Wu “ousted” despite a record of civic service. Alicia Hsu, speaking for the Brookline Asian American Family Network, urged the board to restore Wu’s seat and called the process “deeply disturbed by the lack of due process.”
Wu herself addressed…
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