Communications Pacific Promotes Goya, Kaya

HONOLULU – Communications Pacific (CommPac) has promoted Shauna Goya and Morgan Kaya; both are now account supervisors.

“We are delighted to promote these two outstanding members of our team,” said Kitty Lagareta, CommPac CEO. “Shauna has done extraordinary work for an impressive number and range of clients, raising their visibility and generating much better awareness of what they do for our community. Morgan’s account management expertise and inexhaustible reserves of imagination and energy have earned her enthusiastic client praise.”

Goya joined CommPac in 2010. She had previously worked 10 years as a copy editor at The Honolulu Advertiser, serving her last couple of years posting breaking news online. She also hosted a popular blog on “weird news” called Odds and Ends and helped lead the paper’s social media efforts. She has continued the Odds and Ends blog independently and is active in social media. Born and raised in Hawaii, Goya is a graduate of Roosevelt High School and the University of Hawaii, where she earned her degree in journalism and speech.

Kaya first came to CommPac as an intern in the fall of 2005. In 2006, she became one of only a handful of former interns ever invited to join the company on a full-time basis and worked for several years in marketing services, where she was involved with many key client projects. In 2007, Morgan was promoted to account executive. She was promoted to senior account executive in 2010 and now to account supervisor. Born and raised in Hawaii, Morgan earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism, with a minor in speech communications, from the University of Nevada.

Communications Pacific is Hawaii’s leading integrated communications company, offering public relations, marketing and community building, including land use and real estate projects and other issues. Hawaii’s “go to” communicators, CommPac is a trusted advisor to clients and partners. It strives not only to bring clients success, but also, in every way possible, to strengthen communities, the economy, and the social and cultural fiber of these Islands. For more than four decades, CommPac has provided strategic – and creative – communications counsel that gets results. It is a member of IPREX, one of the largest international partnerships of independent communications firms in major markets around the globe, providing clients with global reach while working with the local expertise of its award-winning partner firms.

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