Portia Wu

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Portia Wu
  • Chinese: —
  • Era: 1970
  • Geography: New Heave, CT
  • Core roles: lawyer
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor 2014-Present

Education

  • Yale Univ. — 1991 — B.A., Arts
  • Cornell Univ. — 1993 — M.A., Comparative Literature
  • Yale Law School — 1998 — J.D.

Employment

  • Microsoft U.S. Government Affairs Team — Director of Workforce Policy — White House — Special Assistant to the President for Labor and Workforce Policy — (2011-2014)

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09231200-15) and 2026-09-26 (slice 09251023-26): hits remain the same four band-B bibliographic records (Pride of T.A. feature, OTA #232, Who’s Who #2186, D.C. photo record) already linked below; no narrative text in the corpus beyond them. Nothing new absorbable this pass.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-06 (slice 10051314-7): ‘Portia’ across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns the same four band-B records linked below plus two false positives (a taiwanjustice-net essay on 威尼斯商人, where Portia is Shylock’s counterpart in the play — not this person). No narrative or memoir text. SKIP stands.
  • Profiled in the TAHS corpus as a Pride of T.A. feature, Ms. Portia Wu, Assistant Secretary of Labor (2015-09) — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/342-pride-of-t-a-ms-portia-wu-assistant-secretary-of-labor-portia-wu-201509|TAHS #342]]
  • Held a TAH Foundation historical-record entry (2019) — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ota-232|OTA #232]] — and a Who’s Who encyclopedia entry [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2186-portia-wu|TAH #2186]]
  • Photo record: Portia Wu in Washington D.C. — Portia Wu in Washington D.C.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-08 (slice 10062334-14): ‘Portia’ across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns the same four band-B records linked above plus the taiwanjustice-net 《威尼斯商人》 essay (Shakespeare’s Portia — not this person). No narrative or memoir material. Saturated; SKIP.

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