{"id":201574,"date":"2024-08-09T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=201574"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T01:31:36","slug":"uh-alumni-valerie-kan-disney-digital-marketing-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/09\/uh-alumni-valerie-kan-disney-digital-marketing-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Alumni: Valerie Kan, Disney+ digital marketing manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_68857\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9LopIMAEX4?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Â鶹´«Ã½Alumni Spotlight: Valerie Kan\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Meet Valerie Kan, digital marketing manager at Disney&#43; and graduate of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/\">Shidler College of Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201581\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/uh-foundation-kan-valerie-shogun-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Shogun actor\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-201581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/uh-foundation-kan-valerie-shogun-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/uh-foundation-kan-valerie-shogun-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/uh-foundation-kan-valerie-shogun-2.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sh\u014dgun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kan, who has worked on TV hit shows such as <em>Shogun<\/em>, <em>The Kardashians<\/em>, <em>Only Murders in the Building<\/em> and <em>Welcome to Wrexham<\/em>, shared the impact that <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> had on her career path.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During my time at school we were required to do two 400-hour internships, and I really feel like that prepared me and gave me the experience I needed for post-grad while I was applying to jobs,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;I feel like I got a head start at <abbr>UH<\/abbr>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/system\/story\/valerie-kan-digital-marketing-manager-at-disney\">Kan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/news\/profiles\">other outstanding <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Alumni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201576\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/uh-foundation-kan-valerie-1.jpg\" alt=\"Valerie Kan\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/uh-foundation-kan-valerie-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/uh-foundation-kan-valerie-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/uh-foundation-kan-valerie-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo credit: Jose Magno)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Shidler graduate has worked on <em>Shogun<\/em>, <em>Only Murders in the Building<\/em> and <em>Welcome to Wrexham<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,146,271,319,56],"class_list":["post-201574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-alumni-association","tag-uh-foundation","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201574"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201598,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201574\/revisions\/201598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}