Trisha Murakawa, With Manhattan Beach Ties, Sworn In To Office

MANHATTAN BEACH, CA — Trisha Murakawa, who is part of the Peck Reservoir Construction Information Team along with Joshua Melendez, was sworn into her new seat on the board of El Camino College, the junior college serving Manhattan Beach, on Monday, Dec. 21. She replaces Manhattan Beach resident Bill Beverly, who served for some 30 years.

Murakawa told the Easy Reader, "December 21 is a very meaningful date for me because it is my grandmother’s birthday. My grandfather died young, leaving my grandmother to raise my mother as a single parent. My grandmother valued trust, respect and public service and my mother passed those values on to me.” Both her maternal and paternal grandfathers were sent to internment camps during World War II, she told Kevin Cody.

“I doubt my grandmother would even have dreamed that one day her grandchild would be elected to public office,” said Murakwa, who has owned and operated her communications/public relations firm Murakawa Communications for more than 25 years, working on public infrastructure projects that improve quality of life for the wider community.

She was endorsed by current Manhattan Beach City Council member Hildy Stern and two former MB City Council members, Amy Howorth and Wayne Powell, and then Manhattan Beach Unified School District Board member Bill Fournell, who left his seat earlier this month after a nearly 13 years on the board.

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