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 Committee and the Code Sustainability Sub-Committee, and serves on the Technology, Economic and Community Development Committee, Community Sustainability Committee, and the Mill and Lake District 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.

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.