If you participated in any East-West Center media program or are an alumnus of other EWC programs and now work in the media field, the EWC invites you to join its new international Media Alumni Chapter.
Organized around professional interests rather than geography, the chapter welcomes anyone, anywhere to sign up. For instructions, click here. Membership is free.
As a member, you’ll gain exclusive access to a contact directory of more than 2,000 EWC alumni who have already joined the Center’s online alumni community. The directory is easily searchable by profession, location, and other subjects. Chapter members will also be invited to special receptions at EWC media conferences and enjoy other benefits.
Any chapter member who participates in the Hong Kong International Media Conference will be invited to a special reception and entered in a cash drawing equivalent to the conference registration fee.
About 40 EWC media alumni in Hawai‘i recently gathered to celebrate the chapter’s launch. “It was nice to reconnect with so many friends from different eras at the Center,” said Susan Kreifels, co-leader of the alumni chapter and coordinator of EWC media programs. “We’d really like to encourage all media people who have been involved with the Center to join the alumni chapter and help organize activities so that all of our colleagues throughout the region can benefit from keeping in touch with one another.”
Chapter co-leader Craig Gima, Honolulu Star-Bulletin assistant city editor, said he thinks the biggest benefit to joining the chapter “is the chance to reconnect with old colleagues and to meet new media friends from around the Asia Pacific region.”
He added: “We’re hoping to eventually organize more gatherings, but to do that we have to be able to contact journalists and other media alumni who want to participate.”
Limited-time special offer: If you complete the EWCA Online Community registration that is part of the media chapter sign-up by Dec. 31, 2009, you will be automatically entered into drawings for special prizes related to the Center’s 50th anniversary alumni conference in Honolulu this coming July. See:
