Professional Career
Woo is a leader in the greater Chinese American community throughout the country from whom his political activities dependably received strong financial backing. He is the former president of the 80-20 Initiative, a group that attempts to organize Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) into a swing bloc-vote in presidential elections, intending to induce both major political parties to take the interests of the APA community into consideration. He also serves as a Professor Emeritus of Physics and Trustee of the University of Delaware, and an Institute Fellow at the Institute of Politics, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
A life-sized picture of him is displayed in Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. Another picture of him is in an interactive display in the lobby of Asia Society in New York City. In 2000, A Magazine ranked him the 6th of the 25 Most Influential Asian Americans.
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