Corey Woods was elected to the Tempe City Council in
May 2008. He has devoted much of his life to public
service. Woods is chair of the Housing & Social
Service Programs Council Committee and serves on the
Committee of the Whole Committee. He was also
appointed in 2011 to the National League of Cities
Community and Economic Development (CED) Steering
Committee.
Woods serves as the Director of College and Career
Articulation for the Phoenix Union High School
District.
He previously served as the Director of Government
Relations for the American Lung Association of
Arizona. 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), Tempe/Kyrene
Communities in Schools, Kiwanis Club of Tempe, Tempe
Community Action Agency, Tempe Schools Credit Union
and the Arizona Town Hall.
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. 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.
