Cal Poly Pomona’s Michael Woo
The Former L.A. City Councilman on What It Would Take to Get Him Back Into Electoral Politics and Why He Keeps Quiet in Elevators
Michael Woo is the dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona. An urban planner, he served on the Los Angeles City Council for eight years and ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 1993. Before participating in a panel on the future of L.A.’s newspapers, he explained why it’s never a good idea to talk in an elevator and offered a tale of the perils of ordering egg whites in Portland in the Zócalo green room.