AGENDA CAMPBELL COULD BRING TO CITY COUNCIL,

City Councilor Andrea Campbell’s expected election as president will continue the body’s advocacy on women and minority issues, City Hall observers said, with one predicting she will use her background in community activism to keep the pressure on Mayor Martin J. Walsh to do the same.

Council members have unanimously agreed to select Campbell, who was first elected in 2015 and represents Mattapan and Dorchester, to succeed at-large Councilor Michelle Wu as the body’s leader. She will formally assume the presidency next month.

Campbell’s rise comes with a steady increase of women of color in the Council Chambers, with just-elected Lydia Edwards in District 1 and Kim Janey in District 7 joining Campbell, Wu and fellow at-large Councilors Anissa Essaibi George and Ayanna Pressley.

University of Massachusetts political science professor Erin O’Brien said their perspectives will shape the council’s agenda in directions that white male councilors would likely not take.

“You can definitely expect to see different issues on the policy agenda, things that the males on the City Council are likely to vote for but are less likely to push and do the behind-the-scenes work to get considered by the council,” O’Brien said, predicting Campbell’s leadership would focus on social welfare concerns.

Wu herself has focused on issues such as child care, and Union of Minority Neighborhoods executive director Horace Small said Campbell would follow in her footsteps.

“She’s the perfect replacement for Michelle Wu,” Small said. “Andrea really comes out of an activist background, I think she’ll bring that spirit. She’ll be very, very practical on how to get things done.”

And while Small said the council’s relationship with Walsh would remain cordial, Small said Campbell will use her post to help drive her agenda.

“Andrea will use the bully pulpit and Marty is smart enough to embrace her, he knows she’s for real,” Small said.

O’Brien said while Tito Jackson, Walsh’s harshest critic, is off the council, Campbell and other minority councilors will make priorities of his concerns, such as education.

“They might not have as antagonistic a relationship with Walsh, but (Jackson’s) policies will still be at the fore,” O’Brien said. “This council strikes me as starting out in a good place with Mayor Walsh. And they saw what happens when you run against Walsh — Tito is out of a job.”