Grays Harbor Institute/KGHI Board Members 2011
President - Dr. Gary Murrell:
- Radio Communications Specialist, U.S. Air Force Security Services.
- Host, live daily call-in talk/interview show, streaming live on the web, and LPFM station Northwest Indy Radio, Hoquiam, Washington.
- Weekly commentator, KBKW commercial AM/FM station, Aberdeen, Washington.
- Storefront Actors Theater, Portland, Oregon, Actor/Director/Grant writer ($250,000 CETA funding).
- Assistant to the Producing Director, Alaska Reparatory Theater, responsible for organizing statewide tours, budget, volunteer coordinator and fundraiser.
- Producing Director, Medford Civic Theater, responsible for budgets, volunteers, grant writing, fundraising.
- Small Business Owner, Pegasus Carriage Company.
- Professor of History, Grays Harbor College; Instructor, Stafford Creek Correctional Center.
- Successfully secured grants for The Grays Harbor Institute from Humanities Washington.
- Founding member, board member, and officer of several local nonprofit organizations.
- Founding Member, The Grays Harbor Institute.
- KGHI Programming Committee.
- Member of Quinault Indian Nation and spent a lifetime taking part in many Tribal and State wide Native American Cultural Activities such as pow wows, pot latches, coastal canoe journey celebrations to name a few.
- Joined Laborers Local #252 in 1997, journeyed out in 2001, moved up in the field to foreman status; Organizing/Tribal Liaison for the Washington & Northern Idaho District Council of Laborers.
- Currently Board member of the following organizations; United Indians of all Tribes Foundation, Executive Board for Laborers Local #252, Sisters In the Building Trades and the Gray's Harbor Institute.
- Other activities include time spent with family; husband and 5 boys, two grandsons and one granddaughter. Active in local and state politics.
- Over 36 year involvement in non-profit organizations and boards, including low-income fund drives, educational institutions, local and statewide environmental organizations, and speaker forums.
- Co-owner, advertising agency, Newport Beach, California.
- Over 13 years theatre experience, Seattle, Washington.
- Successfully secured grants for environmental legal defense activities from The Bullitt Foundation, Northwest Fund for the Environment, Kongsgard-Goldman Foundation.
- Founding member, The Grays Harbor Institute.
- Founding member, board member and officer of several local non-profit organizations.
- KGHI Programming Committee.
- Manager, Bellevue Washington bookstores for 26 years; responsible for supervision, personnel issues, book ordering.
- President, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association for 2 years.
- Active board member of several local nonprofit organizations.
- Founding member, The Grays Harbor Institute.
- 15 years manager, non-profit community health care clinics, serving low-income people in the Seattle metropolitan area, responsible for operating budgets, personnel, supervision, community relations, quality assurance.
- 8 years director, continuing medical education conferences for Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, responsible for developing, organizing and marketing.
- Founding member, board member, and officer of several local nonprofit organizations.
- Founding member, The Grays Harbor Institute.
- KGHI Programming Committee.
- President of the Grays Harbor Community College since 2004.
- Served in various capacities at Pierce College from 1986-2004.
- Ed.D from Oregon State University; MA at Whitworth College; BA from the University of Puget Sound.
- Attended the League for Innovation Executive Leadership Academy (2001-02), and the WA Executive Leadership Academy (2001-02).
- Board member for Lakewood Sister City Association, Asia Pacific Cultural Center, DSHS Special Commitment Center, and the Grays Harbor Chamber of Commerce.
- Member of the Grays Harbor Chamber of Commerce, the Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council, the Grays Harbor Economic Development Council, Aberdeen Rotary, and Light2.