Susan Ahn Cuddy
A young college graduate who joined the military following the Pearl Harbor attack
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Van Chu-Lin
Chinese New Zealand storekeeper in the early 1900s
Katherine Ah Lan Lowe
Worker at Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack in World War II
Dr Inez Fung
Atmospheric scientist and one of the world’s leading experts on climate and the carbon cycle – how carbon dioxide moves throughout the land, oceans, and the atmosphere – and how its movement both depends on and alters our planet’s climate.
Dr Li-Wei Hung
Dr Hung studies night sky brightness.
Dr Arati Prabhakar
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology under President Joe Biden.
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
Katherine Sui Fen Cheung
As the first Asian American female pilot, Katherine Cheung worked to publicize aviation to the Asian American communities.
Maggie Gee
Chinese American WII military pilot