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.
Tag Archives: Asian Descent
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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
Dr Me-Iung Ting
Dr. Me-Iung Ting worked tirelessly to improve medical care for women, children, and refugees, even when it put her at great personal risk.
Hana Shimozumi
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
Grace Lee Boggs
Chinese American civil rights and labor activist whose support for causes such as the Black Power movement, feminism, and the environment spanned over 70 years.
Tye Leung Schulze
Civil rights and community activist