Celina Vázquez
Mexican academic, researcher and translator
Mexican academic, researcher and translator
Director of the Board of Social Study and Training, New South Wales.
Doris Hayashi (1920–2012) was a social worker who participated in the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study as a researcher while incarcerated at the temporary detention center at Tanforan, in California, and the permanent concentration camp at Topaz, Utah.
Pioneering sociologist who wrote about Japanese and Okinawan Americans in Hawai’i during and after World War II.
Setsuko Nishi (1921-2012) worked as a researcher for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study and as a community activist before going on to a notable career as a scholar of race relations.
The only Japanese American woman to work full-time for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS).
Mexican researcher and professor
Australia’s most widely acclaimed sociologist
US civil rights activist Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and one of three women chosen to be a field director for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
Sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner grew up in Mississippi and became civil rights activists as teenagers in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).