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Passion for Fashion Innovation

  • 13 October 2017
  • Author: FDM
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Passion for Fashion Innovation
Dr. Shu Hwa Lin shared cutting-edge fashion technology with fashion design students in UH Maui College’s Fashion Technology program during the recent International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) Conference. 
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Mele Moody

  • 6 October 2017
  • Author: Ju-Young Kang
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Mele Moody
FDM alumna Mele Moody recently took time out from her duties with surfwear company Reef to outline her journey. After graduation, Mele took a paid internship with Ocean Minded, a small Southern California surf footwear company. Shadowing a sales rep for the company,.....
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Lynn Sakutori

  • 6 October 2017
  • Author: Ju-Young Kang
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Lynn Sakutori
FDM alumna Lynn Sakutori, a fashion design graduate with local roots, has a new line of clothing, a-line, available in Macy’s stores. The recent Midweek article about her collection explains that she’s been making clothing ever since she was twelve, when she joined 4-H and began a sewing project.....
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Samantha Tio

  • 6 October 2017
  • Author: Ju-Young Kang
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Samantha Tio

HDFS(FamR) alumna Samantha Tio (Tsoi), LSW, is the director of social services at Hale Ho Aloha Nursing Home. Samantha’s been in this personally and professionally fulfilling position for almost ten years now, and she credits her professors and program at CTAHR with getting her started on her journey...

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Esther Yasuda

  • 6 October 2017
  • Author: Ju-Young Kang
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Esther Yasuda

HDFS (FamR) alumna Esther Yasuda didn’t return to college until she was 29, but once she started, she was hooked: she just graduated this summer with a master’s degree in Education from Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. In addition to working on her master’s, she took a position with a non-profit organization working with youth and senior citizens in Kalihi; now she works with the YMCA of Honolulu as an outreach treatment counselor for middle-school students...

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