Assemblyman Richard Bloom presents a special T-shirt to former Santa Monica mayor and keynote speaker Nathaniel Trives during the 28th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration at SGI Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013.

Trives, a Santa Monica City Council member from 1971 to 1979 who served as mayor in 1975-77, has been active in a wide range of civic and community service organizations in Santa Monica and Southern California.
         
A Santa Monica College alumnus, he received his B.S. in criminal justice from Cal State Los Angeles and master of public administration from UCLA. A former police officer and supervisor, he has worked for the federal court system and has been a criminal justice and political science professor and administrator at SMC and Cal State L.A.
         
He has received numerous community service and professional awards. Most recently, he received the 2012 Santa Monica YMCA’s “Lifetime of Exceptional Achievement and Dedicated Service Award” and the 2012 Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Santa Monica “Global Justice Award.”
         
The annual celebration of the official King holiday has become one of the largest and most diverse celebrations of its kind in Southern California.

The event is co-sponsored by the City of Santa Monica, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica College Associates, City TV, RAND Corp., and SGI-USA.