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Dr Barbara L Riley

Dr. Barbara Riley is the first person from her hometown of Dillingham, Alaska, to become a physician and the first Alaskan Native appointed to the medical staff at Alaska’s Kanakanak Hospital.

Hannah Tomiko Holmes

Educator and disability rights activist

Haruko Takahashi

Japanese-American Shintō priestess who spent part of World War II imprisoned at Honouliuli Internment Camp on O’ahu, Hawai’i

As a young opera star, Shimozumi encountered frequent incredulity at her unaccented English from those who assumed she a Japanese national. During World War II she was sent to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center solely because of her Japanese ancestry.

Kimiko Kaye Tambara

Journalist and activist who documented the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during WWII

Sue Kunitomi Embrey

Sue Kunitomi Embrey understood the need to recognize and protect places that are powerful parts of our national memory and used her civic voice to advocate for those places.

Shikishi Naishinnō

Japanese classical poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods

Kono Yasui

Japanese biologist and cytologist (scientist who studies cells) Kono Yasui became the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science in 1927.

Machiko Hasegawa

Pioneering Japanese manga artist best known for creating the popular comic strip “Sazae-san” in 1946. Her work achieved national circulation in 1949 and ran daily until her retirement in 1974.