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Adrienne Reiko Iwanaga
Teacher, performer, preserver, and cultural ambassador of Bon Odori, a centuries-old Japanese folk dance rooted in the Buddhist tradition of communal gathering to honor and celebrate the memory of ancestors.
Alice Yick
The first Chinese American woman to work at the Charlestown Navy Yard and an advocate for military veterans.
Rachel Khong
Rachel Khong is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel, “Real Americans.” Her first novel, “Goodbye, Vitamin,” was the winner of the California Book Award for first fiction and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; and Esquire. Khong lives in Los Angeles.
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt became the first Filipinx American legislator in the U.S. when she was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1974.
Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed is the author of “Love, Hate & Other Filters,” “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know” and “Internment.”
Yeohlee Teng
Clothing designer and one of the driving forces behind Making Midtown: Sustaining Design and Production in an Evolving Garment District
Kimberly M Mitchell
US Navy veteran
Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo
U.S. Army Veteran who served during World War II from 1944 to 1946.
Rear Admiral Alma Grocki
In 2016, after 35 years of service, Grocki retired from the US Navy at the rank of rear admiral and was the senior engineering duty officer in the Navy Reserve.