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IPR is featuring some of the many AAPI pioneers who impacted the field of public relations in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month. Patsy Mink was born in Paia, Hawaii, in 1925 to a Sansei Japanese-American family. She grew up in a working-class community. After graduating high school as valedictorian in 1944 and doing a year at … Continue reading Patsy Mink (1927-2002)

IPR is featuring some of the many AAPI pioneers who impacted the field of public relations in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month. Haunani-Kay Trask was born on October 3, 1949, in San Francisco, California. She grew up on the island of O’ahu in Hawai’i and was a descendant of the Pi’ilani line of Maui and the … Continue reading Pioneer Haunani-Kay Trask (1949-2021)