Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Facts

Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Facts

In 2014, Microsoft became the largest company with an Asian CEO, Satya Nadella.

Andrea Jung of Avon became the first non-white woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 1999.

Jay Kim of California is the first Korean-American in Congress (1992).

Chinese immigrants were the main workforce to lay tracks for the railroad expansion. At the peak of production, up to 12,000 Chinese workers did the hardest and most dangerous jobs for the railroads.

Fifty percent of Asian Americans ages 25 and older have bachelor’s degrees or higher education, compared to only 28 percent for all Americans ages 25 and older.

In 2013, Kevin Tsujihara of Warner Brothers became the first non-white CEO of a major Hollywood studio.