Several potential candidates for Boston City Council have emerged in recent weeks, including a Dorchester resident who says he intends to run citywide.

Will Onuoha, who lives on Dix Street near Fields Corner, formed a committee to run for at-large city council on Dec. 17.

Onuoha, an attorney who grew up in the Mission Hill section of Boston, worked as a neighborhood coordinator for Mayor Tom Menino and later worked in the Walsh administration as a deputy commissioner in the city’s Inspectional Services Dept.

He is currently an assistant general counsel for the Boston Water and Sewer Commission. The chairperson of his campaign is Adam Webster, a veteran campaign operative in the city.

Marvin Mathelier, who lives in Roxbury with his wife and three kids and runs a small business, Ula Café, in Jamaica Plain, registered a new campaign account with the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance last week. In a statement sent to The Reporter, Mathelier said he is a Marine Corps veteran who served in Afghanistan in 2010. He intends to run for citywide council.

Another likely candidate for citywide council is Alexandra Valdez, who lives in Hyde Park and now serves as the City of Boston’s director of Cultural Affairs. Valdez was appointed to the position by Mayor Wu in June 2024. She previously served as the executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement. A native of the Dominican Republic, she immigrated to the US with her family at age 10, according to a biography on the City of Boston website.

There are four sitting at-large city councillors: Ruthzee Louijeune, who topped the ticket in the last election in 2023; Erin Murphy, who finished a close second to Louijeune; Julia Mejia, who is serving her second full term in office now; and Henry Santana, who was elected to his first term in 2023. All four are expected to seek re-election.

Samuel Hurtado, who lives in Roxbury and currently works for the city of Boston, has falso ormed a committee to run for council. Hurtado was a senior advisor to former Mayor Kim Janey and served as her chief of staff during her time as the District 7 city councillor. Sources say Hurtado intends to run for the District 7 seat currently held by Councillor Tania Fernandes-Anderson, who has been charged with corruption by federal prosecutors in a case that is still pending.

Two other men— Said Ahmed and Said Abdikarim— formed campaign committees last October with plans to seek the District 7 office. Brian M. Foley, who lives in South Boston, also filed with the state to organize a political committee for a run for Boston City Council.

Candidates for at-large council must gather 1,500 certified signatures from registered voters to qualify for the ballot. Candidates for district seats need 200 signatures. The forms to run for office are not available from city election officials until May.