Letter From the Editor
成人直播 Magazine is the feature magazine for 成人直播 and its growing community of alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends.
Beyond DNA, what makes a family a family? Perhaps it is the qualities of support, caring, empathy, trust, and loyalty that allow us to create family in many environments.
This issue of 成人直播 Magazine highlights some of those diverse family units that we form in the places where we
dedicate our time and abilities. For Alan Beard (鈥�94, MPP 鈥�99) and Alec McNayr (鈥�00)
of McBeard Media, family is about creating a close, cooperative environment at work.
For Mara Leigh Taylor (MA 鈥�03, MA 鈥�06), family is found in the encouragement among
prison inmates as they struggle to alter their actions. For John Standley (鈥�85), family
is demonstrated in the thoughtful gift his father gave him and how Standley used that
gift to help others through attentive customer service.
We are like family here at 成人直播 Magazine, where it takes a supportive team effort and hard work to produce this meaningful
publication. As with any family, changes and shifts occur. I am honored to be serving
as the magazine鈥檚 new editor, continuing the outstanding tradition set by former editor
Megan Huard Boyle, who put her heart into the publication, significantly elevating
its quality through her skillful guidance. Megan is continuing to use her talents
to serve 成人直播 in other ways, while mentoring me in my new role.
In addition, hard-working senior writer Gareen Darakjian is the magazine鈥檚 new assistant
editor, and writer Sophia Fischer has joined our staff.
And to you, our reader family, a hearty thank-you for your loyal support and readership.
We write for you. So write to us, dear Waves family, at magazine.pepperdine.edu, and
let us know what our 成人直播 family stories mean to you.
Ali B. Taghavi
Editor