{"id":226435,"date":"2025-12-04T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=226435"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:21:24","slug":"jada-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/04\/jada-rogers\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> alumna combines fashion, math in retail career"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Drawing from her undergraduate experiences at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience<\/a> (CTAHR<\/abbr>), alumna Jada Rogers is now thriving in her fashion retail career. Rogers, a Kentucky native who chose to study at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa to combine her love of fashion with her desire to live in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, is now a retail buyer at Maui Divers Jewelry.<\/p>\n

Rogers focused on fashion merchandising during her time at UH<\/abbr>, and she credits a retail buying class taught by Professor Abbie Cristi for clarifying her career aspirations.<\/p>\n

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“That class helped me realize my passion for retail buying because I love math and I love fashion, and retail buying is essentially combining both math and fashion into a career field,” Rogers said.<\/p>\n

In addition to her coursework, Rogers participated in an internship at Mikinola, a local boutique, where she gained hands-on experience in aspects of small business operations, including working on inventory, helping with store events, assisting on the sales floor and processing online orders. Rogers expressed that working at a local company made her a “more well-rounded person” and broadened her understanding of how a business operates.<\/p>\n

Another formative experience for Rogers was a fashion show production class, which enabled her to work with design students, help produce a fashion show in 2021 and 2022, and find a professional mentor.<\/p>\n

“The fashion show was completely virtual [in 2021] because of the pandemic,” Rogers said. “There were a lot of trials and tribulations and figuring that out, but we worked as a team and we did it! Through that class, I got to work with fashion producer Lynne O’Neill in New York Fashion Week. I am fortunate that Lynne and I have stayed connected after graduation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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