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ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE CELEBRATION 2009HERITAGE CELEBRATION 2009
This slideshow celebrates This slideshow celebrates Americans of Asian and Pacific Island Americans of Asian and Pacific Island
descent in observance of descent in observance of Asian Pacific American Asian Pacific American
Heritage Month Heritage Month at OCC.at OCC.
Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng
Indonesian-Indonesian-
AmericanAmerican
maternal half-maternal half-sister of Barack sister of Barack Obama: high Obama: high school history school history teacher, teacher, university university instructor, instructor, writerwriter
Hosanna Kabakoro
Fijian Miss Idaho Teen USA 2010
Lucy Liu, Actress, Chinese American
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian American Astrophysicist
Michelle Wie, Korean AmericanMichelle Wie, Korean AmericanProfessional GolferProfessional Golfer
Ann Curry, TV News Reporter, of Japanese, French, German, Irish, Scottish descent
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, wrestler, entertainer, of African-American, Samoan-American heritage
NORMAN YOSHIO MINETASecretary of Transportation under George W. Bush (Japanese American)
African-American & Filipino heritage
DON HODON HO
ENTERTAINER - ENTERTAINER -
OF HAWAIIAN, OF HAWAIIAN,
CHINESE, CHINESE,
PORTUGUESE, PORTUGUESE,
GERMAN & GERMAN &
DUTCH DUTCH
ANCESTRYANCESTRY
GARY LOCKE
A Democrat, Locke was the nation's first governor (Washington state) of Chinese ancestry.
MICHELLE KWAN
Chinese-American
OLYMPICFIGURE SKATER
CIBO MATTO
Made up of two Made up of two Japanese-born Japanese-born musicians, Yuka musicians, Yuka Honda and Miho Honda and Miho Hatori, the hip Hatori, the hip band Cibo Matto band Cibo Matto means “food means “food madness” in madness” in ItalianItalian
RON DARLING Hawaiian-born pitcher for the New York Mets
Daniel Kahikina Akaka
A Democrat, A Democrat, Akaka is the first Akaka is the first senator of native senator of native Hawaiian ancestry Hawaiian ancestry and is the only and is the only senator of senator of Chinese ancestry.Chinese ancestry.
Vera Wang, Fashion Designer of Chinese descent
Free Burma Day, San Francisco
Kristi YamaguchiFigure Skater, Olympic Champion (1992)
(Japanese American)
Tamla OCC Student(Burmese American)
28th Asian American Festival (2007)Houston, Texas
Cambodian American ParadeSan Francisco
John MaedaGraphic Designer & Computer Scientist
(Japanese American)
Kurt SuzukiCatcher, Oakland Athletics
(Japanese American)
Yulan OCC Student
(Chinese American)
Michio KakuTheoretical Physicist (String Theory)
(Japanese American)
Most Sanzida OCC Student (Bengali American)
With Dr. Mark Ende
Michelle Malkin Commentator and Blogger
(Filipino American)
Donald Allan Figueroa Comic Book Artist and Toy Designer
(Filipino American)
Koran Cherty
CNN Anchor
(Nepalese American)
Jason Bartlett Tampa Bay Rays (Filipino American)
Caterina Fake Co-Founder, Flickr.com (Filipino American)
Retired Rear Admiral Eleanor Mariano, MDPhysician of Pres. Reagan, Bush Sr. &
Clinton (Filipino American)
Hui Chen OCC International Office
(Chinese American)
Tamlyn TomitaActress
The Joy Luck Club, The Karate Kid, Part II. (Filipino American)
Johnny DamonNew York Yankees (Thai American)
Maggie QFashion Designer
(Vietnamese American)
Dr. An WangFounder of Wang Laboratories
(Chinese American)
Meggy Park OCC International Student Counselor
(Korean American)
Ang LeeFilm Director & Writer(Taiwanese American)
The Wedding Banquet Green Card Sense and Sensibility The Ice Storm Ride With the Devil Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Eat, Drink, Man, Woman Brokeback Mountain
Rebecca, OCC Student(Chinese American)& Peter (OCC Tutor)
Neil Horikoshi, President & Executive Director Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (Japanese American)
Sandra Oh
Actress
(Korean American)
Did you know that…
Greg Louganis Olympic Gold Metalist
andand
Tiger Woods Professional Golfer …are both of Asian descent?
Johnnie Morton, NFL Football Player…
…is also of Asian descent.
Zubin Mehta
Musician, Conductor
(Indian American)
The Honorable Elaine L. ChaoFormer Secretary of Labor
(Taiwanese American)
Jim Cho Senior Manager of Asian Marketing &
Community Relations, Anheuser-Busch Inc.(Chinese American)
Etuini Haloti Ngata: NFL athlete of Tongan ancestry
Margaret Cho, Comedienne
(Chinese American)
Keanu ReevesActor
(Chinese, English, and
Hawaiian descent)
Sant ChatwalPresident and CEO of Hampshire Hotels
& Resorts (Indian American)
Jeanette Lee Pool Pro
(Korean American)
Connie Chen Connie Chen Founder and President of Founder and President of American Asian Cultural American Asian Cultural
FoundationFoundation(Chinese American)(Chinese American)
Bobby JindalGovernor of Louisiana
(Indian American)
Andrea Jung CEO of Avon
(Chinese American)
Sabeer BhatiaCo-founder of Hotmail
(Indian American)
Chloe DaoFashion Designer
(Vietnamese American)
Mohini BhardwajOlympic Gymnastic Medalist(Indian American)
Amar Bose Physicist and Founder of Bose
Corp.(Bengali American)
Maya Lin Architect of Vietnam War Memorial
(Chinese American)
Brandon Chillar Professional American Football Player
(Indian American)
Lu Zheng & Rebecca OCC Students
(both Chinese Americans)
ACTOR KAL PENNINDIAN-AMERICAN
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