Coal Creek Meals on Wheels
From December 2020 through 2022, I served as the Development and Communications Coordinator at Coal Creek Meals on Wheels (CCMOW). In this role, I managed the organization’s creative media, digital communications, marketing, and grant writing. Below are photos highlighting annual events I captured for CCMOW.
* Please note that the copyright of the images below is owned by Coal Creek Meals on Wheels.
CCMOW 2022 Blizzard Bags
“On October 10, 2022 CCMOW’s volunteers assembled and delivered 125 Blizzard Bags to their meal delivery clients. Blizzard Bags were packed with non-perishable food items to provide each client with four entrées, two proteins, fruits and vegetables, warm beverages, snacks, and additional treats for days when CCMOW’s is closed and unable to deliver meals due to inclement winter weather.”
CCMOW 2021 Holiday Gift Project
“On December 15, 2021, CCMOW’s wonderful volunteers were hard at work putting together annual holiday gift bags full of festive treats and favors for their delivery clients! Along with their meals, each delivery client will receive a blanket, handmade hat, holiday card, packets of hot cocoa or warm apple cider, and a few other special holiday goodies.”
CCMOW 2021 Volunteer Appreciation Week
“Last week CCMOW celebrated Volunteer Appreciation Week, one of our favorite times of the year! Throughout this seven day celebration CCMOW showered its wonderful volunteers with gratitude, favors, and tasty breakfast treats (compliments of Chef Ron) as they arrived to pick up their meal deliveries.”
CCMOW 2021 Blizzard Bags
“Wednesday afternoon CCMOW’s amazing volunteers assembled and delivered 160 Blizzard Bags to their Meal Delivery clients! Each Blizzard Bag was filled with non-perishable food items to provide a client with four entrées, two proteins, fruits and vegetables, warm beverages, snacks, and additional treats for days when CCMOW is unable to deliver meals due to inclement winter weather.”
John A. Burns School of Medicine
In 2014, during my junior year of college, I began working as a public relations intern at the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) in the Office of Public Relations and Communications, under the direction of distinguished news anchor and journalist Ms. Tina Shelton. After graduating, I continued working with the JABSOM Communications team until June 2017. Below are photos I took for UH Med Now, JABSOM’s news blog.
*Please note that the copyright for the following images is owned by the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Office of Public Relations and Communications.
Dr. Angela Pratt Endowment Gift
“On May 9, 2017, Physicians and staff of the University of Hawaiʻi Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women’s Health (OB-GYN) gathered to celebrate the “Angela Pratt Endowment,” a gift created by Chief OB-GYN at Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Dr. Angela Pratt. This generous contribution by Dr. Pratt, an alumna of the ʻImi Hoʻōla Post-Baccalaureate Program and the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) MD Program, will help support the development of OB-GYN resident training on neighbor islands, research in Native Hawaiian Women’s Health and professional development of faculty, residents and fellows.”
Photos taken for UH Med Now by Amanda Shell, on May 9, 2017: Click to view the full photo album.
Kalo Garden Construction & Planting Work Day
“On February 9, 2017 volunteers gathered at the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s (JABSOM) Mala La’au Lapa’au (medicinal plant garden) to construct the garden’s new addition and to plant taro.”
Photos taken for UH Med Now by Amanda Shell, on February 9, 2017. Click to view the full photo album.
Will Hendersonʻs Final Aloha Ceremony
“With great care, medical students Leimomi Kanagasuku (MD 2018), Gavin Ha (MD 2020) and Nina Beckwith (MD 2018) boarded a canoe crewed by the Kailua Canoe Club, carrying with them Henderson’s ashes, wrapped in a ti leaf puʻolo. They paddled the canoe offshore, saying prayers and singing, then stopped to lowered the puʻolo into the gentle waves, allowing Henderson’s cremains to settle into the clear, turquoise-tinted sea. They left lei and flower blossoms floating in the ocean above his final resting place.”
Photos taken for UH Med Now by Amanda Shell, on December 16, 2016. Click to view the full album.
Transition to Clerkship (Class of 2018)
“Medical students (JABSOM 2018) beginning third-year clinical rotations brush up on clinical skills one last time before starting patient bedside learning.”
Photos taken for UH Med Now by Amanda Shell, on June 20, 2016. Click to view the full photo album.
2017 JABSOM “Reconnect” Alumni Reunion
“John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) MD alumni gathered for RECONNECT 2017, a celebratory reunion lunch held on Saturday, July 22 at the JABSOM campus. The reunion lunch featured a special hula dance performed by beloved retired faculty.”
Photos taken for UH Med Now by Amanda Shell, on July 22, 2017. Click to view the full photo album.
Hawaiʻi Medical Association: Ola Pono Ike Medical Gala
“The Hawai’i Medical Association held their annual awards and scholarships ceremony honoring those in the field of medicine.”
Photos taken by Amanda Shell on October 15, 2017. Click to view the full photo album.
2016 Willed Body Memorial Service
“Saturday morning, the University of Hawaii Manoa Campus Center Ballroom hosted the congregation of loved ones, family, and friends who gathered to celebrate the lives of those who selflessly donated their bodies to medicine, at the annual 2016 Willed Body Memorial Service.”
Photos taken by Amanda Shell on April 9, 2016. Click to view the full photo album.
Linda Chang, M.D., Professor of Medicine Program Director, Neuroscience and MRI Research
“Research led by Dr. Linda Chang: Alzheimer’s gene may show effects on brain starting in childhood.” Read full article.
Photos taken for UH Med Now by Amanda Shell, on July 11, 2016. Click to view the full photo album.
JABSOM 2016 Convocation Ceremony
“The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) MD Class of 2016 Convocation Ceremony held at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Kennedy Theatre on May 15, 2016.”
Photos taken for UH Med Now by Amanda Shell on May 15, 2016. Click to view the full photo album.
MD Class of 2016 Senior Lūʻau
“The John A. Burns School of Medicine’s (JABSOM) MD Class of 2016 reflect upon and celebrate their time at JABSOM at the annual Senior Luau. Students from the MD 2016 class dance to a mele inoa written for King David Kalākaua.”
Hawaiʻi to Zero: HIV Cure & Prevention Efforts Conference
“World AIDS Day” conference sponsored by the Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) Center for AIDS (HICFA). This 2015 conference followed the launch of the Center’s “Hawaii 2 Zero“ initiative which proposes to transform Hawai’i into the first HIV-free state in the United States. Timothy Ray Brown, the first person to have been eradicated of HIV/AIDS, spoke at the conference.”
Photos taken for UH Med Now by Amanda Shell, on December 1, 2016. Click to view the full photo album.
2015 Kīhei Ceremony 2015
“Six newly graduated Native Hawaiian doctors are cloaked with a garment signifying their journey into medicine and their mahalo for the people, and community who nurtured them.”
Photos by Amanda Shell. Click to view the full photo album.
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