Kiyome Tsuda
Kiyome Hirai Tsuda was a kibei, a US citizen educated in Japan, who exemplified the deep connections between Hawai‘i and Japan before World War II.
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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.
Dr Beatrice Gee
Pediatric hematologist Beatrice Gee, M.D., is assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and practices medicine at the Georgia Sickle Cell Center at Grady Hospital.
Susan Ahn Cuddy
A young college graduate who joined the military following the Pearl Harbor attack
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