Katherine Ah Lan Lowe
Worker at Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack in World War II
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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
Maggie Gee
Chinese American WII military pilot
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.
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.