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Influential Figures to Honor During AAPI Heritage Month

Renaldine Simon May 26, 2021
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Alan Yang is an American director, producer, actor and screenwriter who just recently came out with a film named: Tigertail. This movie was inspired by his father and it tells the story of a Taiwanese immigrant who came to the U.S. and had to leave everything behind including the people he loved. Alan hopes for more Asian-American representation in hollywood. To learn more click here: https://www.eastwestbank.com/ReachFurther/en/News/Article/Alan-Yang-Shining-Light-on-Asian-American-Representation-in-Hollywood

  • Alan Yang is an American director, producer, actor and screenwriter who just recently came out with a film named: Tigertail. This movie was inspired by his father and it tells the story of a Taiwanese immigrant who came to the U.S. and had to leave everything behind including the people he loved. Alan hopes for more Asian-American representation in hollywood. To learn more click here: https://www.eastwestbank.com/ReachFurther/en/News/Article/Alan-Yang-Shining-Light-on-Asian-American-Representation-in-Hollywood
  • Patsy Mink was the first Asian American woman and first woman from an ethnic minority group to be in the U.S. Congress (State of Hawaii). Mink spent her time speaking in favor of rights for immigrants, minorities,women and children. Mink was also the first Asian-American to run for U.S. President.
  • Sunita Williams is a NASA astronaut and she holds the record for the longest spaceflight, which was 195 days. She is on her second space mission and set another world record of the maximum number of spacewalks by a female astronaut.
  • Kamala Harris is the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and first African American and Asian American vice president. She is the highest-ranking female official in the U.S. She originally served as the U.S. senator from 2011 to 2017.
  • Herbert Young Cho Choy was the first Asian American to serve as a United States federal judge and the first Korean ancestry to be admitted into the bar (a court system) in the United states.

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