In celebration of Women’s History Month, Maya Soetoro-Ng, sister of President Barack Obama, has received the Activist Award for Global Peace and Social Justice from the Sisters Empowering Hawaiʻi organization.
Soetoro-Ng, an assistant specialist with the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, will be honored at the Women Making History Awards Celebration and Book Signing Luncheon along with other honorees on Sunday, March 6.
Other honorees
Deborah Smith Pegues, keynote speaker and best-selling author
Vicky Holt Takamine, co-founder and executive director of PAʻI Foundation, an arts organization that is established to preserve Hawaiian culture
Colonel Celethia Abner-Wise, chief nurse/chief of clinical operations at 18th Medical Command (deployment support), Fort Shafter
Kathryn Xian, award-winning organizer and filmmaker, non-executive director of Girl Fest and the executive director of the Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery
Daphne E. Barbee Wooten, civil rights attorney and published author and videographer
Lori Chaffin, publisher of Hawaiʻi Wellness Directory/Magazine
Luncheon information
The awards luncheon will be held on March 6, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. at the Honolulu Country Club. For more information, contact Sharon Thomas Yarbrough with Sisters Empowering Hawaii at (808) 228-8503 or email sistersempoweringhawaii@gmail.com.
