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Pacific Edge on public service
Adding to the mission that their publication wishes to endure, Naomi and Jamie also have a couple of community initiatives they aim to put into practice. Their publication plans to work with Seariders production, a multimedia education program of Waianae High School, offering Hawaii businesses, government agencies, and non-profits professional video production and graphic design services.
"It's a fantastic program," according to Jamie, who is also a publisher of Ko Olina Spirit. "We're looking to give back by letting the students, work with the students in laying out some pages, possibly doing some editorial writing, so that they can get their stuff published and actually be in the Hawaii mainstream media."
There involvement with the education sector does not end here. Another of their school-based community projects is called PEERS or Pacific Edge Executive Relationships Society, which is currently on the drawing board. Here, the members, composed mainly of young executives, will take sponsorships with Hawaii public schools and work with the students once a month as career mentors.
"They'll go out to that school and work with a class, give them assignments in their related field to help stimulate them to possibly think about career choices and maybe that will stimulate one or two people to actually go into that career field, but to give them a little focus on what they want to do," Jamie said. "I believe the impact of this program will help students find where they want to go in life a little bit sooner than if they didn't have this opportunity."
Naomi believes that involvement in the school community can help catapult an individual to the next level, stemming from the fact that Pacific Edge came into fruition because of her graduate school edification. This proves why their community involvement veers toward reinforcing academic learning.
"We go and we actually speak with many of the students in marketing, advertising, public relations classes, and give them the lowdown on how we started, what we do, the process of paginating, laying out, working with the graphic designers, the whole nine yards, which is really wonderful," Naomi said.
In the process, Pacific Edge is able to produce quality contents from their student internship program. Ultimately, it is an aim for the publication to show students that their work makes a difference and their potential lies beyond the four walls of the classroom, according to Naomi.
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