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Josh Levinson returns to Hawai‘i to take over at Community Links

Joshua Levinson has assumed the top job at Community Links Hawai‘i, a two-year-old agency that helps new and small organizations more effectively and efficiently handle their back-office administrative support functions, such as day-to-day financial, human resources, procurement and contract and grant compliance. Levinson follows in the footsteps of Kathy Matayoshi, who has moved from to become CEO of the Business Roundtable, replacing Carl Takamura.

Levinson, born and raised on Oahu, graduated from Punahou School and Duke University, earned a Masters degree in Folklore from the University of North Carolina and spent the last five years at the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice in Washington, D.C., where he was deputy director. He has deep roots in Hawai‘i, where his father, Steven, is an associate justice on the Hawai‘i Supreme Court, as was his great uncle, Bernard.

KITV CEO reelected vice president of national MDA

Michael Rosenberg, president and general manager of Hawaii television station KITV, has been reelected as a national vice president of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. He will serve an additional one-year term as a volunteer leader, offering advice and expertise to further the organization's programs and activities. The association helps people with neuromuscular diseases through research programs, services and education. KITV, the local ABC affiliate, is one of some 190 stations that broadcast the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day telethon annually. The association operates 225 hospital-affiliated clinics nationwide, including one at Castle Medical Center in Kailua