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As News & Information Specialist, Derek Ferrar authors articles, coordinates online content, handles news releases and media inquiries, and otherwise facilitates the public dissemination of information about East-West Center programs, activities and resources.
He was formerly a public information specialist with the state's Office of Hawaiian Affairs, editor of Hawaiian Airlines' Hana Hou! magazine and a founding editor of the Honolulu Weekly newspaper. As a writer, he has traveled extensively in Asia and the Pacific on assignment, and his articles on the region's people, places and cultures have appeared in such publications as Outside, Utne Reader, Travel+Leisure and Pacifica.
Awards include the Philippines government's national Kalakbay Award for foreign travel writer of the year, several Excellence in Journalism awards from the Hawaii chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and several Hawaii Publishers' Association writing awards. Born in New York City, he lived in India for several years in the late 1970s and settled in Hawaii in 1985.
As News & Information Specialist, Derek Ferrar authors articles, coordinates online content, handles news releases and media inquiries, and otherwise facilitates the public dissemination of information about East-West Center programs, activities and resources.
He was formerly a public information specialist with the state's Office of Hawaiian Affairs, editor of Hawaiian Airlines' Hana Hou! magazine and a founding editor of the Honolulu Weekly newspaper. As a writer, he has traveled extensively in Asia and the Pacific on assignment, and his articles on the region's people, places and cultures have appeared in such publications as Outside, Utne Reader, Travel+Leisure and Pacifica.
Awards include the Philippines government's national Kalakbay Award for foreign travel writer of the year, several Excellence in Journalism awards from the Hawaii chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and several Hawaii Publishers' Association writing awards. Born in New York City, he lived in India for several years in the late 1970s and settled in Hawaii in 1985.
