We stand on the shoulders of history making AAPI women like the late U.S. Rep. Patsy Takemoto Mink. She is the champion of the landmark Title IX legislation and this year the 12th woman honored in the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program. Rep. Mink, filled her life with firsts—the first Japanese-American woman admitted to practice law in Hawaiʻi, the first Asian American woman, and first woman of color, to be elected to the U.S. Congress. She fought for gender and racial equality, afford