Asian Descent Archives - Page 25 of 67

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

Multidisciplinary artist, educator, and member of the US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Lady Gladys Nicholls

Lady Gladys Nicholls was a leading Aboriginal activist whose dedicated community service was an inspiration to many.

Michelle Wu

The first woman and first person of color to be elected Mayor of Boston

A teacher at a Japanese-American WWII relocation camp, a founding member in 1965 of the Cleveland Japanese-American Foundation, and helped develop the Cleveland Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.

Sophiline Cheam Shapiro

An exceptional dancer, vocalist, teacher, and award-winning choreographer in the Cambodian classical dance form. A master artist of the 1,000-year-old tradition, Shapiro was a member of the first generation to graduate from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after the fall of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.

Sue Yeon Park

Sue Yeon Park has been given the honorific titles of yisuja for achieving the highest level of mastery of the salpuri-chum (Shaman ritual dance) and jeonsuja for the preservation of seungmu (Buddhist ritual dance) by the Ministry of Culture of South Korea.

Sue Ko Lee

Sue Ko Lee was a Chinese American garment worker and labor organizer with the Chinese Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Association. In 1938, she participated in a successful 15-week strike against the National Dollar Stores garment factory. At the time, it was the longest strike in the history of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Lee went on to become a leader in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) in California.

María

Enslaved woman in Spanish-controlled Philippine Islands killed because she refused a man’s advances

Kamala Harris

On January 20, 2021, Kamala D. Harris became the first woman, the first African American woman, the first Indian-American, the first person of Asian-American descent, and the first graduate of an HBCU to be sworn in as the Vice President of the United States of America.