Alex Wan
| Alex Si-chi Wan | |
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| Member of the Atlanta City Council | |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Constituency | District 6 |
| Majority | 5,617 (60%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 13, 1967 Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Domestic partner | Joe Bechely |
| Residence | Morningside, Atlanta, Georgia |
| Alma mater |
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.) Georgia Tech (B.E.) |
| Occupation | Atlanta City Council member |
| Website | www |
Alex Si-chi Wan (Chinese: 萬斯祺; pinyin: Wàn Sīqí) is an American politician. He is the first Asian American member of the Atlanta City Council, elected to the position for District 6 in the November 2009 municipal election. He speaks both English and Mandarin Chinese.
In 2009, Wan ran for the open city council seat in District 6 against several candidates including Bahareh Azizi, Steve Brodie, Tad Christian, Liz Coyle, and Miguel Gallegos. Wan and second-place finisher Liz Coyle entered a run off. Wan was endorsed by fourth-place finisher Steve Brodie, a gay man who campaigned for the seat in 2005 against then-incumbent and also openly-gayAnne Fauver, as well as the Victory Fund, Georgia Equality, Buckhead Coalition and gay educator Charles Stadtlander. Of the six initial contestants in the race for the council seat, Wan was the only recipient of an "Excellent" grade by Committee for a Better Atlanta.
Wan graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering in 1988, and subsequently went on to Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to obtain a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance, graduating in 1993.
In 2013, the councilman championed legislation supported by neighborhood associations and NPU F to remove existing adult businesses from Cheshire Bridge Road by 2018, but the Atlanta City Council voted it down. It was also opposed by a mix of gays, strippers and Atlanta’s real estate interests – including Scott Selig. Some in the gay community wondered if Cheshire Bridge were "sanitized", "where would people go for sexual expression"? Matthew Cardinale, the editor and publisher of Atlanta Progressive News, and resident of the Road, decried "the ongoing project of gentrification, homogenization, sterilization and capitalization of a historic neighborhood," Atlanta's "red-light district".
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