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This Native Hawaiian woman died on July 3, 2021 - a poet, writer, activist, educator and political scientist and an important voice in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
Haunani Kay-Trask
100
This Chinese Canadian actor played the leading role of Shang-Chi in the Marvel movie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Simu Liu
100
Bruce Lee, born in San Francisco while his parents were visiting the city for his father's concert tour abroad, he returned with his family to Hong Kong. He remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and best known for these three specific movies.
Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon and Enter the Dragon
100
Born to an African American father and a Japanese American mother, he is Seattle's first Asian American and first bi-racial mayor and Seattle's second black mayor.
Bruce Harrell
100
Although in America some assume that this is a type of sushi, they're two different things. Rice is the defining ingredient of sushi, not the topping. This Japanese dish is thinly-sliced raw food.
Sashimi
200
The 1965 Delano grape strike, a famous example of cross-racial solidarity, kickstarted the national workers’ rights movement. It was organized by the majority Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and joined later by the predominantly Mexican National Farmworkers Association. This effort to unionize farm labor was led by Cesar Chavez and this Filipino community organizer and laborer.
Larry Itliong
200
This Vietnamese-American actress lived the first few months in an orphanage in Cần Thơ before she was adopted by American parents. One of her biggest roles is playing Laura Jean Covey in the To All The Boys trilogy.
Lana Condor
200
Constance Wu, born in Richmond, VA by parents who immigrated to the US from Taiwan, starred in this major Hollywood studio film to feature an all-Asian cast, the first since 1993's The Joy Luck Club.
Crazy Rich Asians
200
He was the first governor in the US of East Asian descent and the only Chinese American ever to have served as a governor of any state.
Gary Locke
200
This is considered the gateway food to Thai cuisine. Classic ingredients include flat rice noodles, dried shrimp, tamarind, fish sauce, bean sprouts, shallots and egg, sprinkled with roasted peanuts, fresh herbs and chilis. It could either have shrimp, chicken, pork or tofu.
Pad Thai
300
She is a writer and performer of Marshall Islander ancestry. She has received international attention for her poetry, including performing her piece, 'Dear Matafele Peinem' at the United Nations Climate Summit in 2014, which shed light on the global climate crisis.
Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner
300
This Samoan NFL quarterback starts for the Miami Dolphins and currently is the only starting left-handed quarterback playing in the league.
Tua Tagovailoa
300
Written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung, this is a semi-autobiographical movie about a South Korean family who immigrated to the rural United States in the 1980s.
Minari
300
This Chinese American man ran for position number 5 on the Seattle City Council and won by a landslide of 30,000 votes. He became the first Asian American to hold elected office in the Pacific Northwest as well as the first person of color to hold a Seattle City Council seat.
Wing Luke
300
This Lao pork sausage uses a mixture of pork belly, skin and minced meat. Other ingredients can also be diced galangal, chopped green onions, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, cilantro and dill, with fresh chili peppers.
Sai Oua
400
Born in Atlanta to Thai and Indonesian immigrants, she is a multi-disciplinary artist. In the wake of the Atlanta shootings in March 2021, TIME magazine used art from her series focused on celebrating the resilience of the AANHPI community.
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
400
This Iranian actress earned herself an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress by playing Ben Kingsley's wife, Nadi, in the movie, House of Sand and Fog.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
400
Farah Nousheen and Rita Meher founded this film festival in March 2002 in Seattle in response to 9/11, due to South Asians feeling the weight of fear, racism, hate and crimes that were on the rise against them. They wanted to change the narrative for those from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, Sri Lanka and the diasporas worldwide.
Tasveer
400
She is serving as the US representative from Washington's 7th congressional district, which represents most of Seattle. She is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Asian American to represent Washington at the federal level.
Pramila Jayapal
400
This Burmese soup consists of a fish broth with rice noodles, onion, hard boiled-egg, ginger and different herbs. Typically accompanied by fried fritters and eaten for breakfast.
Mohinga
500
This child of Malayali and Punjabi immigrant parents from Malaysia and India is gender non-confirming and they use poetry, comedy, performance, lecture, sound-art, fashion design, self portraits and social media to explore themes of gender, race, trauma, belonging and the human condition. Their artistry responds to violence against trans and gender non-conforming people.
Alok Vaid-Menon
500
This Samoan-Fijian, 2nd generation professional wrestler, is a former WWE Women's Tag team Champion and two-time WWE 24/7 Champion, goes by this ring name.
Tamina
500
This 2015 documentary captures a snapshot in time amid the rise of the Pacific Islander presence in the NFL. Presenting a new take on the American immigrant story, this feature length documentary transports viewers deep inside the tightly-knit Polynesian community in Salt Lake City, Utah. With unprecedented access and shot over a four-year time period, the film intimately portrays four young Polynesian men striving to overcome gang violence and near poverty through American football.
In Football We Trust
500
The daughter of Korean immigrants, she became the first Korean American to sit on the Seattle City Council, where she chaired its Finance and Budget Committee for four years and the Transportation Committee for two.
Martha Choe
500
A traditional food and the most popular food that almost every Bangladeshi eats at the Pohela Boishakh Festival (the first day of Bangla year).
Panta Ilish