Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Novelist Kali Fajardo-Anstine is a 2020 winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award.
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Dr Linda M Dairiki Shortliffe
Dr. Linda M. Dairki Shortliffe built a successful career in the relatively new field of pediatric urology when very few women surgeons were doing such work. Since 1988, she has been at the Stanford University School of Medicine Medical Center and Packard Children’s Hospital as chief of pediatric urology. Since 1993, she has also been director of the Urology Residency Program at Stanford, and has been successful in recruiting more women physicians to her specialty.
Dr Vicki Sato
Biologist, immunologist, and biotechnology executive with decades of experience leading teams in drug research and development. Molecules and therapeutics developed under her leadership have become critical treatments for HIV, cystic fibrosis, inflammation, multiple sclerosis, and Hepatitis C.
Mitsu Yashima
Japanese-American artist, children’s book author, and civic activist who worked with the OSS (predecessor to the CIA)
Dr Ina Park Rhee
American physician with both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in human genetics.
Iva Toguri D’Aquino
Iva Toguri D’Aquino, who gained notoriety as the mythical Tokyo Rose, was the seventh person to be convicted of treason in U.S. history.
Dr Eliza Lo Chin
Eliza Lo Chin, M.D., has drawn inspiration from her female colleagues who strive to combine family responsibilities with a career in medicine. She has collected their experiences in her book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine, published in 2002. For her continuing work on women’s issues in medicine, Dr. Chin was nominated for the New York branch of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Outstanding Woman Physician Award for the year 2000.
Dr Lisa T Su
Electrical engineer who is an expert in semiconductor devices and high-performance processors who pioneered new ways to connect computer chips using copper instead of aluminum, resulting in 20% faster chip speeds.
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.
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.