Councilmember Corey D. Woods
Corey Woods was elected to the Tempe City Council in May
2008. He has devoted much of his life to public service.
Woods currently serves as the Director of Government
Relations for the American Lung Association of Arizona. He champions air
quality improvements and works as the coordinator for the Valley of the Sun
Clean Cities Coalition. In addition to his work, Woods is also an active
community volunteer. He served as a member of the City of Tempe’s
Transportation Commission and currently serves on the Boards of Directors
for the Boys and Girls Clubs (Ladmo Branch), Communities in Schools, Kiwanis
Club of Tempe and Tempe Community Action Agency.
During his undergraduate years at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor, Woods was active in student government. He graduated
in April 2000 with a B.A. in Political Science, and a minor in
African-American Studies.
After graduating from college, Woods joined the
Handleman Company, which specialized in music distribution, where he served
first as a Management Associate and later as a Market Research Coordinator.
Woods is in the College of Education at Arizona State
University, currently working on a Master of Arts in Social and
Philosophical Foundations of Education. He was also a teaching assistant at
ASU for three years, where he taught a class entitled “Culture and
Schooling” for students preparing to be educators.
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