亚裔委员莫里塔转任库克县委员 成首位亚裔女性县委员
伊利诺伊州芝加哥市消息：大芝加哥水资源回收局（MWRD）11月8日宣布，该局委员乔西娜·莫里塔（Josina Morita）将离开水务局董事会，转任库克县第13选区县委员。她在11月3日的选举中当选库克县委员，将成为首位担任库克县委员的亚裔女性。
水务局表示，莫里塔在任期间致力于推动机构更加包容多元，她主导了亚太裔传统月的庆祝活动，表彰亚裔民选官员，并向全县学生发放中英文双语版《水去哪儿了》绘本，讲解污水处理过程与水务职业。她还长期推动恢复城市树冠，向居民发放了大量水务局橡树苗。
莫里塔现任伊利诺伊州亚裔美国人核心小组主席，该小组2019年成立，致力于为伊利诺伊州亚裔争取资源与代表权。她同时担任联合社区与宗教组织大会主任，并在伊利诺伊州种族定性与数据监督委员会、亚裔美国人就业计划委员会和芝加哥市公平委员会任职。水务局11月17日的董事会会议将是她的最后一次参会。
（来源：大芝加哥水资源回收局）
Josina Morita Moves to Cook County Board, Becoming Its First Asian American Woman Commissioner
CHICAGO, Illinois — The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) announced on November 8 that Commissioner Josina Morita will leave the district's board to become Cook County Commissioner for the 13th District. Elected on November 3, she will be the first Asian American woman to serve as a Cook County commissioner.
The district said Morita worked during her tenure to make the agency more inclusive, leading its Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebrations honoring Asian American elected officials and distributing a bilingual Chinese-English children's book, "Where Does the Water Go?", to students across the county to explain wastewater treatment and water careers. She also championed restoring the urban tree canopy, handing out large numbers of district oak saplings to residents.
Morita chairs the Illinois Asian American Caucus, founded in 2019 to secure resources and representation for Asian Americans in Illinois. She also serves as director of the United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations and sits on the Illinois Racial Profiling and Data Oversight Board, the Asian American Employment Plan Advisory Council and the Chicago Equity Council. The district's November 17 board meeting will be her last.
(Source: Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago)
来源：大芝加哥水资源回收局
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