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Tunua Thrash-Ntuk: Candidate for Long Beach City Council District 8
Tunua Thrash-Ntuk is one of three candidates, including the incumbent Al Austin, seeking to represent Long Beach City Council District 8. Thrash-Ntuk’s day job is as the Executive Director of Los Angeles Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LA LISC). Their focus, according to their website, is on Affordable Housing, Economic Development, Health, Financial Stability, and Leadership Development. The District 8 candidate says she is running because of her decades of experience, “…around ending homelessness and affordable housing is, I think, the kind of thing we need right now to really begin to tackle these issues as a city.”
According to her campaign website, candidate Tunua Thrash-Ntuk co-chaired Long Beach’s “Everyone In” Economic Inclusion Policy Task Force in 2018. It’s described as an “initiative designed to provide economic inclusion recommendations to create a local economy that includes and benefits every Long Beach resident.”
“Part of what I think will make our community successful is making sure we have a strong economic development strategy.”
PalacioMagazine.com interviewed City Council candidates for Districts 2, 6, and 8. We asked each candidate the same three questions with follow-ups for clarification and more in-depth information.
- Why are you running?
- What is your vision for the District?
- Name and discuss two or three Policy issues
PalacioMagazine.com sat down with District 8 candidate Tunua Thrash-Ntuk to get her answers to these questions.
More on Tunua Thrash-Ntuk
“Tunua Thrash-Ntuk leads a local non-profit organization that helps transform underserved communities throughout the Los Angeles and Orange County regions. Under her leadership, the organization has financed and built thousands of affordable housing units, increased capital for small businesses, and advocated for smarter public policy around neighborhood revitalization.
In 2018, Tunua Co-Chaired the City of Long Beach’s “Everyone In” Economic Inclusion Policy Task Force, an initiative designed to provide economic inclusion recommendations to create a local economy that includes and benefits every Long Beach resident. As a member of the task force, she led the efforts to convene six months of policy roundtables with a multi-disciplinary team of experts such as Policy Link. As a result of these discussions, the Long Beach City Council adopted several of the task force’s recommendations. Tunua organized Long Beach’s first Economic Inclusion Summit in 2018 with more than 250 local community partners, business leaders, policymakers, and philanthropic partners for a day-long conversation that explored innovative policy solutions to address Long Beach’s economic inequities. Throughout her career, she has worked to attract several hundred thousand dollars in funding to create and sustain programs ensuring local equity and economic inclusion.
Tunua has a strong track record of serving her community as a board member or advisory board member to many organizations, including Housing California, Federal Home Loan Bank San Francisco’s Affordable Housing Council, City of LA Measure HHH Citizens Oversight Commission, Greenlining Institute, Union Bank’s Community Advisory Board, and Frontier Communications Community Advisory Board. She earned her Master’s in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley.” Source: Campaign website
For more information on the campaign of Tunua Thrash-Ntuk, visit her campaign website HERE.
More on the March 3, 2020 Election
- Feb 03, 2020-Feb 25, 2020: Vote by Mail — First and last day to apply. VBM Applications may be submitted between these dates (both dates inclusive). Applications received prior to the 29th day preceding the election will be kept and processed during this period.
- Feb 18, 2020: Last day to register to vote.
- Feb 22, 2020-Mar 03, 2020: Vote Centers Voting Period. Vote Centers open beginning 10 days prior to the election day.
- Mar 03, 2020: Election Day.
Visit the Long Beach City Clerk website for more information on the candidates and ballot measures.
